Continuous Partial Attention

Continuous partial attention is the practice of dividing one's attention across several sources of information at once, scanning for anything worth noticing so that nothing important is missed. Coined in 1998 by the technology writer Linda Stone, the term is meant to be distinct from ordinary multitasking: multitasking is driven by a conscious wish to be more productive, while continuous partial attention is a more automatic habit driven by a wish to stay constantly connected to everything going on around a person. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/