Specific smartphone usage and cognitive performance affect gait characteristics during free-living and treadmill walking

Niederer, Daniel; Bumann, Anke; Mühlhauser, Yvonne; Schmitt, M.; Wess, Katja; Engeroff, Tobias; Wilke, Jan; Vogt, Lutz; Banzer, Winfried

doi:10.1016/j.gaitpost.2018.04.007

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“…However, the specific cognitive processes that are important for this task are not agreed upon. Specifically, the results of the current study, suggesting that cognitive flexibility, as measured by TMTb, is associated with walking DTCs, are in accordance with those of Niederer et al [27] and our previous work [12] but not with Stöckel and Mau-Moeller [13]. These discrepancies may be explained by the differences between tasks used in these studies.…”

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confidence: 92%

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Mobile Phone Use during Gait: The Role of Perceived Prioritization and Executive Control

Krasovsky

Lanir

Felberbaum

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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(1) Background: Mobile phone use during gait is associated with adverse health outcomes, namely increased risk of pedestrian injury. Healthy individuals can voluntarily prioritize concurrent task performance, but the factors underlying the impact of phone use during walking remain largely unknown. Thus, the objective of this work was to evaluate the relationship between subjective (perceived) prioritization, cognitive flexibility and dual-task performance when using a mobile phone during walking. (2) Methods: Thirty young participants walked for one minute with and without reading or texting on a mobile phone, as well as reading or texting while sitting. Walking performance (kinematics) was recorded, as well as phone use (text comprehension, text read/written), mental workload, perceived prioritization (visual analog scale), and cognitive flexibility (trail-making test). (3) Results: Texting while walking was associated with larger decreases in gait speed, larger gait variability, higher mental workload, and lower text comprehension compared to reading. Perceived prioritization was associated with walking dual-task costs (DTCs) (r = 0.39–0.42, p < 0.04) when texting, and better cognitive flexibility was associated with lower gait DTCs when texting (r = 0.55, p = 0.002) but not reading. (4) Conclusions: The context-dependent link between perceived prioritization, cognitive flexibility, and walking DTCs promotes our understanding of the factors underlying texting-while-walking performance. This could identify individuals who are more prone to dual-task interference in this increasingly common and dangerous task.

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“…Recent studies have begun to explore the associations between specific cognitive functions and the DTCs of using a mobile phone while walking [13,27]. However, the specific cognitive processes that are important for this task are not agreed upon.…”

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Mobile Phone Use during Gait: The Role of Perceived Prioritization and Executive Control

Krasovsky

Lanir

Felberbaum

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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“…Different smartphone activities lead to different effects on visual attention. Previous studies revealed that the most common activities, such as reading and typing, proved to be the most distractive modes of using smartphones while walking [12,13,17,19,23,24,27,29]. Our findings reinforce this finding, since 64.9% of typers and readers we observed in this study were defined as smartphone zombies ( Table 5).…”

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Between Post-Flâneur and Smartphone Zombie: Smartphone Users’ Altering Visual Attention and Walking Behavior in Public Space

Argın

Pak

Türkoğlu

2020

IJGI

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The extensive use of smartphones in our everyday lives has created new modes of appropriation and behavior in public spaces. Recognition of these are essential for urban design and planning practices which help us to improve the relationship between humans, technologies, and urban environment. This study aims to research smartphone users in public space by observing their altering visual attention and walking behavior, and, in this way, to reveal the emergent “new figures”. For this purpose, Korenmarkt square in Ghent, Belgium, was observed for seven days in 10-min time intervals. The gaze and walking behavior of smartphone users were encoded as geo-located and temporal data, analyzed and mapped using statistical and spatial analysis methods. Developing and implementing new methods for identifying the characteristics of smartphone users, this study resulted in a nuanced characterization of novel spatial appropriations. The findings led to a better understanding and knowledge of the different behavior patterns of emergent figures such as “post-flâneurs” and “smartphone zombies” while uncovering their altering visual interactions with and movements in the public space. The results evoked questions on how researchers and designers can make use of spatial analysis methods and rethink the public space of the future as a hybrid construct integrating the virtual and the physical.

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“…The use of smartphones in a sitting position may lead to more shift in head-neck angle than in a standing position (Gustafsson et al, 2017;Ewa et al, 2010). Few studies also suggest that smartphone usage with the tasks like typing, texting, internet sur ing, dialling while free walking or free-living are known to impact or alter gait biomechanics as they in luence the basic cognitive and smartphone dualtasking abilities (Niederer et al, 2018).…”

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Musculoskeletal check in smartphone overuse in COVID 19 Lockdown phase

Phansopkar¹,

Naqvi²,

Kumar³

2020

ijrps

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Due to the rapid spread of COVID-19, some of the major preventive measures such as complete lockdown of the country with the availability of only essential services that lead to a lot of changes in people's daily lifestyle and work pattern. The mobile device has had a significant impact on everyday life in all ages and in almost of the countries. The average time reported spent on internet use was 2.13 hours every day in the Indian population. Mobile device users complain of discomfort in at least one area of the upper extremities, upper back, or neck pain, shoulder pain, wrist and hand pain, and finger discomfort. Long-term use of smartphones causes continuous mechanical stress on the tendons, muscles, and perimetric tissue, which can induce various musculoskeletal symptoms. The use of smartphones in a sitting position may lead to more shift in head-neck angle than in a standing position. The main aim of this article is to understand the overview of musculoskeletal check during this time of lockdown, where we all have to experience changes in our lifestyle pattern by staying indoors. So the overview of this article is concluded by giving a scientific understanding behind keeping a musculoskeletal check in smartphone overuse in lockdown phase, which is of great importance to optimize, maintain & improve the overall performance of the body.

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Specific smartphone usage and cognitive performance affect gait characteristics during free-living and treadmill walking

Cited by 25 publications

References 23 publications

Mobile Phone Use during Gait: The Role of Perceived Prioritization and Executive Control

Mobile Phone Use during Gait: The Role of Perceived Prioritization and Executive Control

Between Post-Flâneur and Smartphone Zombie: Smartphone Users’ Altering Visual Attention and Walking Behavior in Public Space

Musculoskeletal check in smartphone overuse in COVID 19 Lockdown phase

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