As online distractions increasingly colonize our time, why has productivity become such a
vital demonstration of personal and professional competence? When corporate profits are …

Overloadwas first published in March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic was spreading
across the United States and the globe. With states issuing stay-at-home mandates and …

In the US, 95% of smartphone users admit to having used their smartphones during their
latest social gathering. Although smartphones are designed to connect us with others, such …

While extensive research has investigated the risks of children sharing their personal
information online, little work has investigated the implications of parents sharing personal …

Design frictions, a term found in popular media articles about user experience design, refer
to points of difficulty occurring during interaction with technology. Such articles often argue …

There is a widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be. We hear constant
laments that we live too fast, that time is scarce, and that the pace of everyday life is spiraling …

Extensive scholarship has investigated technology use among families. Existing work has
focused primarily on parents' reactions to and restrictions of their children's technology use; …

Mobile devices have begun to raise questions around the potential for overuse when in the
presence of family or friends. As such, we conducted a diary and interview study to …

This article explores how the shift from print to electronic calendars materializes and
exacerbates a distinctively quantitative,“spreadsheet” orientation to time. Drawing on …

We took an ethnographic approach to explore the continuum between excessive
smartphone use and healthy disconnection. We conducted a qualitative mixed-methods …