Sixty Years of Modern Human Origins in the American Anthropological Association

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Investigating the role of mind wandering in computer-supported collaborative work: A proposal for an EEG study

Mind wandering is a mental activity that allows us to easefully escape from current situations and tasks. Being the opposite of goal-directed thinking, existing research suggests that mind wandering is an important antecedent of creativity and innovation behavior. Moreover, there is initial evidence that technology characteristics may influence mind wandering. Despite a growing academic interest in mind wandering, there is only limited research that provides insights into the relationship between technology characteristics and mind wandering. We seek to address this research gap by proposing a research model that investigates whether technology supported collaborative work has an impact on the degree of mind wandering. In this research-in-progress paper, we describe the use of self-report measures and neurophysiological measures (specifically, Electroencephalography, EEG) to study mind wandering in an Information Systems research context. Ultimately, our research seeks to inform design science research in order to enhance creativity and innovation behavior

Detecting Mind Wandering Episodes in Virtual Realities Using Eye Tracking

Virtual Reality (VR) allows users to experience their environment differently and more immersively than traditional information systems (IS). Therefore, it is important to also study cognitive processes in VR settings. In this proposal, we focus on the concept of mind wandering, which is an emerging concept in IS research that can be studied using neurological measures such as eye tracking. Current literature suggests that mind wandering is a complex concept with different dimensions, namely deliberate and spontaneous mind wandering. While previous literature has provided initial evidence on the feasibility of eye tracking to approximate mind wandering, this study seeks to investigate how well eye tracking performs when it comes to a more nuanced perspective on mind wandering applied in an VR setting

On How Mind Wandering Facilitates Creative Incubation While Using Information Technology: A Research Agenda for Robust Triangulation

Our minds tend to frequently drift away from present technology-related situations and tasks. Against this background, we seek to provide a better understanding of mind-wandering episodes while using information technology and its link to decisive variables of Information Systems research, such as performance, creativity and flow. Since the academic literature still lacks reliable and validated measurements that can fully account for all facets of mind-wandering episodes while using information technology, our work addresses this gap by presenting a way to triangulate data in the context of a digital insight problem-solving task. This new approach enables researchers to further investigate the effects of spontaneous thought in technology-related settings and is a promising building block for the development of neuroadaptive systems