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A Neuroimaging Study of How ICT-Enabled Interruptions Induce Mental Stress

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Information Systems and Neuroscience

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In modern society, information and communication technologies (ICTs) provide individuals with social connectivity and facilitate their task execution either in daily life or work. While ICTs bring about numerous benefits, the technologies can expose individuals to frequent interruptions which disrupt thinking processes and potentially cause mental stress. Even though Information Systems research has investigated the effect of interruptions on stress, the neural mechanism underlying how ICT-enabled interruptions induce individuals’ mental stress remains to be further revealed. Accordingly, this neuroimaging study aims to examine the neural activation associated with mental stress in response to ICT-enabled interruptions by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG). Furthermore, this research distinguishes the neural activation patterns with regard to quantity and task relevancy of ICT-enabled interruptions.

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This research is supported by Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 1, R-253-000-120-112.

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  1. National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Zhensheng Zhang & Hock-Hai Teo

  2. Hebei University of Economics and Business, Shijiazhuang, China

    Zhensheng Zhang

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  1. Information Systems and Quantitative Sciences (ISQS), Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA

    Fred D. Davis

  2. University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Steyr, Oberösterreich, Austria

    René Riedl

  3. Department of Information Systems, University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

    Jan vom Brocke

  4. Department of Information Technology, HEC Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Pierre-Majorique Léger

  5. Department of Information Systems, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA

    Adriane Randolph

  6. Department for Digital Business, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Steyr, Oberösterreich, Austria

    Thomas Fischer

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Zhang, Z., Teo, HH. (2020). A Neuroimaging Study of How ICT-Enabled Interruptions Induce Mental Stress. In: Davis, F., Riedl, R., vom Brocke, J., Léger, PM., Randolph, A., Fischer, T. (eds) Information Systems and Neuroscience. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 32. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28144-1_4

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