- For the documents, researchers selected two articles on Wikipedia that required copy-editing, each with similar topics.
- Researchers added spelling and grammatical errors to bring the list of required edits for each document up to approximately 190, ensuring that participants would have enough editing tasks for the 13-minute time span of the video.

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- In each trial, participants were asked to watch a video on their laptop while editing a Word document on their phone.
- They were instructed to attend to both tasks, and told their performance would be evaluated by how well they edited the document and how well they answered comprehension questions from the video.

Additional Sections:
- Video Watching Task
- Document Editing Task

Play Write: Experimental Tasks

Iqbal, S. T., Teevan, J., Liebling, D., & Thompson, A. L. (2018) Multitasking with Play Write, a Mobile Microproductivity Writing Tool. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, 411–422. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3242587.3242611

Multitasking with Play Write, a mobile microproductivity writing tool

- Two videos were presented from the “Annoying Orange” series, each approximately 11 minutes and 22 seconds long.
- It was confirmed that none of the participants had seen either of the videos before.
- 8 comprehension questions were presented at the end of each video, multiple-choice with one correct and four incorrect answers.

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