Achieving digital wellbeing through digital self-control tools: A systematic review and meta-analysis

AM Roffarello, L De Russis - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Public media and researchers in different areas have recently focused on perhaps
unexpected problems that derive from an excessive and frequent use of technology, giving …

Defining and identifying attention capture deceptive designs in digital interfaces

A Monge Roffarello, K Lukoff, L De Russis - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Many tech companies exploit psychological vulnerabilities to design digital interfaces that
maximize the frequency and duration of user visits. Consequently, users often report feeling …

Focused time saves nine: Evaluating computer–assisted protected time for hybrid information work

V Das Swain, J Hernandez, B Houck, K Saha… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Information workers often struggle to balance their time for a variety of activities like focused
work, communication, and caring. This study analyzes the impact of a commercially …

MindPhone: Mindful reflection at unlock can reduce absentminded smartphone use

N Terzimehić, L Haliburton, P Greiner… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We present MindPhone, a mindfulness-based intervention to tackle absentminded and
excessive smartphone use. At unlock, MindPhone prompts one of two questions: what the …

InteractOut: Leveraging Interaction Proxies as Input Manipulation Strategies for Reducing Smartphone Overuse

T Lu, H Zheng, T Zhang, XO Xu, A Guo - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Smartphone overuse poses risks to people's physical and mental health. However, current
intervention techniques mainly focus on explicitly changing screen content (ie, output) and …

Understanding disengagement in just-in-time mobile health interventions

J Park, U Lee - Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Just-in-time (JIT) intervention aims to proactively detect a user's problematic behaviors and
deliver interventions at an opportune moment to facilitate target behaviors. However, prior …

Navigating User-System Gaps: Understanding User-Interactions in User-Centric Context-Aware Systems for Digital Well-being Intervention

I Kim, U Lee - Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we investigate the challenges users face with a user-centric context-aware
intervention system. Users often face gaps when the system's responses do not align with …

A Longitudinal In-the-Wild Investigation of Design Frictions to Prevent Smartphone Overuse

L Haliburton, DJ Grüning, F Riedel, A Schmidt… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Smartphone overuse is hyper-prevalent in society, and developing tools to prevent this
overuse has become a focus of HCI. However, there is a lack of work investigating …

Insights from the evaluation of a persuasive intervention for absent-minded smartphone use

C Nwagu, R Orji - Behaviour & Information Technology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Problematic smartphone use (PSU) is a growing concern that hurts users' daily lives and
activities. Previous studies have emphasised the importance of developing mindfulness and …

mRAPID Study: Effect of Micro-incentives and Daily Deadlines on Practice Behavior

M Sobolev, F Okeke, O Plonsky - International Conference on Persuasive …, 2023 - Springer
Many goals people have, like getting into shape or getting good grades on important exams,
require small daily deferrable efforts, like exercising or studying. To help people sustain …