In consequence, we argue that the symmetrical approach can distract researchers from problematizing existing knowledge to see more 'really interesting and innovative research' being published (Ashkanasy, 2011: 819).
Older people, too, are more distracted, with research in 2013 showing they hear background music louder, a condition known as presbycusis, and suffer noise nuisance on their hearing aids.
While prior distracted walking research has identified behaviors such as eating, listening to media players, walking and talking with other people, and talking on mobile phones (Thompson et al. 2012), very little research has focused specifically on "digitally distracted" pedestrians who text while walking.
The goal of the current work was to create a publicly available visualization tool of distracted driving research, the purpose of which is to allow the public and other stakeholders to empirically inform questions of their choice that may bear on policy discussions.
The bad news is that distracted driving research is far less promising.
These tools, it is argued, distract the research gaze from the complex social and political determinants that structure and constrain human action.
And it's not as though the branches doing Nasa's climate research are distracting other branches of the agency from conducting deep space exploration.
His crusades to save Sullivan buildings kept distracting him from his research, and he was never satisfied with his versions of the manuscript.
"In the back of my head, I don't want [this project] to look like this is distracting from my mainline research focus," he says.
In the era of online supplements to research papers, it is feasible and reasonable for authors to provide sufficient detail of imputation analyses to facilitate peer review, without distracting from the substantive research question.
Their ranks included Mr. Strayer, who left GTE for academia to research distracted driving.
