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Aimee Miller Ott

"(Un)divided attention in the age of cell phone distractions"

Meet Aimee

Aimee E. Miller-Ott, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator in the School of Communication at Illinois State University. Her research focuses on ways that people use communication to manage their personal and relational identities in various contexts. She has an extensive line of co-authored research focused on how people experience, make sense of, and respond to their friends', family members', and romantic partners' use of cell phones and cell phone distractions when spending time with them.