Information Overload in Real-Time Mobile Web Applications: Student Viewpoint

Context: The main goal of this research is to explore the views of post-graduate students in Kerman regarding information overload in real-time mobile web applications in order to provide better, more appropriate solutions for eliminating and controlling information overload. Methods: The views of p...

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Main Authors: Mohammad Bagher Negahban, VG Talawar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Shiraz University of Medical Sciences 2018-12-01
Series:Interdisciplinary Journal of Virtual Learning in Medical Sciences
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Online Access:http://ijvlms.sums.ac.ir/article_44848_3749898d1625c3af9031a9b3550bcdeb.pdf
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spelling doaj-a605fb66afad4cc882eb53a3660eb2942020-11-25T02:37:12ZengShiraz University of Medical SciencesInterdisciplinary Journal of Virtual Learning in Medical Sciences2476-72632476-72712018-12-019410.5812/ijvlms.8417644848Information Overload in Real-Time Mobile Web Applications: Student ViewpointMohammad Bagher Negahban0VG Talawar1Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, IranUniversity of Mysore, Mysore, IndiaContext: The main goal of this research is to explore the views of post-graduate students in Kerman regarding information overload in real-time mobile web applications in order to provide better, more appropriate solutions for eliminating and controlling information overload. Methods: The views of post-graduate students regarding information overload in real-time mobile web applications were assessed by sending/receiving questionnaires to the emails of 330 post-graduate students from the Kerman government universities who were chosen using Morgan's table sampling technique. The reliability of research questionnaires were analyzed in the SPSS software using Cronbach's alpha coefficient, which was 0.908 for this research. Results: The findings showed that the students had positive views about influencing factors of information overload, moderate views about personal influencing factors in dealing with information overload, positive views about effective tools for controlling information overload, moderate views about personal influencing and environmental factors in eliminating information overload, positive views about solutions for mitigating information overload, and negative views about the effects of information overload on users (P = 0.01). This means that all the independent variables directly affect the viewpoints of graduate students. Conclusions: The research results show that irrelevant information for the user, the amount of monitoring and evaluation of individuals and management of discussion groups, wrong and incorrect information, and violation of privacy are the main factors responsible for information overload. Furthermore, training programs on user interaction with information are considered as personal and environmental influencing factors in eliminating information overload. Management of personal knowledge, referring the work to professionals, and filtering the information are considered as important solutions for mitigating information overload, and informational stress and anxiety, despair and hopelessness in retrieving relevant information, informational fatigue, expenditure loss, reduced ability to think deeply, and reduced use of mental skills are considered as the most important effects of information overload on users.http://ijvlms.sums.ac.ir/article_44848_3749898d1625c3af9031a9b3550bcdeb.pdfinformation overloadmobile phonereal-time mobile web applications
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Information Overload in Real-Time Mobile Web Applications: Student Viewpoint
Interdisciplinary Journal of Virtual Learning in Medical Sciences
information overload
mobile phone
real-time mobile web applications
author_facet Mohammad Bagher Negahban
VG Talawar
author_sort Mohammad Bagher Negahban
title Information Overload in Real-Time Mobile Web Applications: Student Viewpoint
title_short Information Overload in Real-Time Mobile Web Applications: Student Viewpoint
title_full Information Overload in Real-Time Mobile Web Applications: Student Viewpoint
title_fullStr Information Overload in Real-Time Mobile Web Applications: Student Viewpoint
title_full_unstemmed Information Overload in Real-Time Mobile Web Applications: Student Viewpoint
title_sort information overload in real-time mobile web applications: student viewpoint
publisher Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
series Interdisciplinary Journal of Virtual Learning in Medical Sciences
issn 2476-7263
2476-7271
publishDate 2018-12-01
description Context: The main goal of this research is to explore the views of post-graduate students in Kerman regarding information overload in real-time mobile web applications in order to provide better, more appropriate solutions for eliminating and controlling information overload. Methods: The views of post-graduate students regarding information overload in real-time mobile web applications were assessed by sending/receiving questionnaires to the emails of 330 post-graduate students from the Kerman government universities who were chosen using Morgan's table sampling technique. The reliability of research questionnaires were analyzed in the SPSS software using Cronbach's alpha coefficient, which was 0.908 for this research. Results: The findings showed that the students had positive views about influencing factors of information overload, moderate views about personal influencing factors in dealing with information overload, positive views about effective tools for controlling information overload, moderate views about personal influencing and environmental factors in eliminating information overload, positive views about solutions for mitigating information overload, and negative views about the effects of information overload on users (P = 0.01). This means that all the independent variables directly affect the viewpoints of graduate students. Conclusions: The research results show that irrelevant information for the user, the amount of monitoring and evaluation of individuals and management of discussion groups, wrong and incorrect information, and violation of privacy are the main factors responsible for information overload. Furthermore, training programs on user interaction with information are considered as personal and environmental influencing factors in eliminating information overload. Management of personal knowledge, referring the work to professionals, and filtering the information are considered as important solutions for mitigating information overload, and informational stress and anxiety, despair and hopelessness in retrieving relevant information, informational fatigue, expenditure loss, reduced ability to think deeply, and reduced use of mental skills are considered as the most important effects of information overload on users.
topic information overload
mobile phone
real-time mobile web applications
url http://ijvlms.sums.ac.ir/article_44848_3749898d1625c3af9031a9b3550bcdeb.pdf
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