I'd like to know the conditions of this study. In my experience, the
choice for most software engineers is not between music and silence,
but rather between music and other people's chatter. Thus, I find it
hard to imagine an experiment where listening to music would enable
less concentration than not doing so.
kt
Katie Albers
Founder & Principal Consultant
FirstThought
User Experience Strategy & Project Management
310 356 7550
[email protected]
On Feb 28, 2009, at 4:31 AM, Eirik Midttun wrote:
If you want to improve the design you should consider not to listen to
music at all. "Peopleware" by DeMarco & al explains a study showing
how listening to music affected software productivity. The results
showed that the music had little effect on productivity, but did
affect the quality. Those who listned to music seemed to miss certain
patterns in the work that those who worked in quiet recognised
easily.
I have often heard objections that this depends on the person and
ohter factors. The thing is, none of the subjects test for this
admits any decrease in quality or quantity of their work.
That said, I do listen to music myself at work. Mostly ambient stuff.
I'll be happy to receive suggestions for msuic without vocals.
Hearing human voices is particularly distracting. Didn't really
notice before I became aware of it.
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