One of the greatest things that academic researchers can do is to deeply explore concepts that really relate to life! Communication overload, especially in an environment where we are surrounded by mobile phones, is a very practical and complex idea. Explore the following slide show for an overview of our published research on this topic. Here is a punchline:

There is an availability-expectation-pressure pattern that sums up what many of us feel when we say we are communicatively overloaded!