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Play Write: Discussion

In a world of fragmented attention and rapid task switching, finding large blocks of time to accommodate traditional ways of being productive is challenging, and Play Write provides an opportunity to use micro-moments to complete microtasks that contribute towards a larger productivity goal without a large time or attention commitment.
Some limitations of the study include that it was performed in a controlled laboratory setting using documents that were not familiar to the participants.
Play Write microtasks were more resilient to task switching between editing and watching the video, more than the traditional macro-editing tasks done via Mobile Word.
While Play Write presents microtasks that could be completed with limited context, in practice researchers found that apart from spelling and grammatical corrections, microtasks like triage comments, shortening, and accepting and rejecting changes sometimes required more context than Play Write offered.
Regardless of the amount of context provided, Play Write currently seems unlikely to ever fully support the range of editing that people are used to in their desktop editing experiences.
While Play Write presents microtasks on a mobile divide to leverage micro-moments, they could be surfaced in other context to yield added benefits, such as on desktop editing tasks.
Despite its current shortcomings, the developers believe that Play Write, and microtasking more generally is potentially disruptive to existing work practices.

Updated 2021-06-07

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