TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Posture and texting: effect on balance in young adults
JO  - PLoS one
A1  - Nurwulan, Nurul Retno
A1  - Jiang, Bernard C.
A1  - Iridiastadi, Hardianto
SP  - e0134230
EP  - e0134230
VL  - 10
IS  - 7
N2  - Using a mobile phone while doing another activity is a common dual-task activity in our daily lives. This study examined the effect of texting on the postural stability of young adults. Twenty college students were asked to perform static and dynamic postural stability tasks. Traditional COP and multivariate multiscale entropy (MMSE) were used to assess the static postural stability and the Star Excursion Balance Test (SEBT) was used to assess the dynamic postural stability. <br><br>RESULTS showed that (1) texting impaired postural stability, (2) the complexity index did not change much although the task conditions changed, and (3) performing texting is perceived to be more difficult.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1932-6203
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134230
ID  - ref1
ER  -