Short Videos Viewing Behaviours Have Negative Impact on Undergraduate Students’ Visual Short-Term Memory (VSTM) Performance

Ruoqi Huang

2021

Abstract

Visual Short-Term Memory (VSTM) is the ability to retain visual input for a short period of time before being processed by the later memory systems. VSTM is thought to be related to reading ability, which is a major activity of undergraduate student’s daily academic activities. The pandemic nurtures the popularity of short videos, particularly in the young population, where they included undergraduate students. While users spend an average 24.5 minutes on short videos every day, the negative impact of short videos is still not clear from a memory perspective. This study plans to investigate how viewing short videos influences VSTM performance by designing a VSTM test using monochrome pattern recognition. Result shows significant difference between experimental group and control group in answering rate (p = 0.042), accuracy (p = 0.027), and reaction time (p < 0.001). Result further suggests that undergraduate participants that attempt the VSTM test after a 5-minute short video watching session showed lower answer rate, lower accuracy, and longer reaction time, suggesting a worse performance comparing to those did not watch short videos before the attempt. An explanation based on the relationship between selective attention and VSTM was proposed. This study is aimed to provide reference for undergraduate student on how the popular short video viewing behaviour can have negative effect on their VSTM, and possibly on their academic activities.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Huang R. (2021). Short Videos Viewing Behaviours Have Negative Impact on Undergraduate Students’ Visual Short-Term Memory (VSTM) Performance. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare - Volume 1: CAIH, ISBN 978-989-758-594-4, pages 298-305. DOI: 10.5220/0011367900003444

in Bibtex Style

@conference{caih21,
author={Ruoqi Huang},
title={Short Videos Viewing Behaviours Have Negative Impact on Undergraduate Students’ Visual Short-Term Memory (VSTM) Performance},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare - Volume 1: CAIH,},
year={2021},
pages={298-305},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011367900003444},
isbn={978-989-758-594-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare - Volume 1: CAIH,
TI - Short Videos Viewing Behaviours Have Negative Impact on Undergraduate Students’ Visual Short-Term Memory (VSTM) Performance
SN - 978-989-758-594-4
AU - Huang R.
PY - 2021
SP - 298
EP - 305
DO - 10.5220/0011367900003444