How Do Phones Affect Your Reaction Time?

Overview

Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine how phones affect humans reaction time and how phones alter humans awareness to their surroundings. Methods/Materials 10 people, timer, ruler, ball. Timed how fast people could react to a ball dropping in front of them when they were calling someone, texting someone, or off their phones completely. Results A ball was dropped in front of each of the 10 subjects and they were timed to how fast they could react to it when they were calling, texting, or off their phones. 100 trials were run per category to determine if phones affected peoples reaction time or altered their awareness. The performance of people off their phones was shown to be more efficient than those calling or texting. Conclusions/Discussion Repeated trials showed a significant difference between the category of when people were off their phones and when they were texting. It is concluded that when people are physically looking at a phone, they have a harder time reacting to their surroundings leading to their reaction times being slower than those who were calling or those who were off their phones.

Competition history

• CSEF 2018 Behavioral & Social Sciences · Entry J0428

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