Many tech companies exploit psychological vulnerabilities to design digital interfaces that maximize the frequency and duration of user visits. Consequently, users often report feeling …
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 …
We present MindPhone, a mindfulness-based intervention to tackle absentminded and excessive smartphone use. At unlock, MindPhone prompts one of two questions: what the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …