Citation

Nurwulan NR, Jiang BC, Iridiastadi H. PLoS One 2015; 10(7): e0134230.

Affiliation

Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Industrial Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Public Library of Science)

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0134230

PMID

26230323

PMCID

PMC4521688

Abstract

Using a mobile phone while doing another activity is a common dual-task activity in our daily lives. This study examined the effect of texting on the postural stability of young adults. Twenty college students were asked to perform static and dynamic postural stability tasks. Traditional COP and multivariate multiscale entropy (MMSE) were used to assess the static postural stability and the Star Excursion Balance Test (SEBT) was used to assess the dynamic postural stability.

RESULTS showed that (1) texting impaired postural stability, (2) the complexity index did not change much although the task conditions changed, and (3) performing texting is perceived to be more difficult.

Language: en