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 …

Instant access and gratification make it difficult for us to self-limit the use of smartphone
apps. We hypothesize that a slight increase in the interaction cost of accessing an app could …

Smartphone overuse is related to a variety of issues such as lack of sleep and anxiety. We
explore the application of Self-Affirmation Theory on smartphone overuse intervention in a …

Problematic smartphone use negatively affects physical and mental health. Despite the wide
range of prior research, existing persuasive techniques are not flexible enough to provide …

Prior research indicates that many adolescents struggle to use social media intentionally,
with negative impacts on well-being. This presents an important but under-researched …

Public discussion and discourse amongst researchers suggest that smartphone use is
excessive from an individual welfare standpoint, but evidence for this remains limited. I …

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 …

Excessive smartphone use has negative effects on our social relations as well as on our
mental and psychological health. Most of the previous work to avoid these negative effects is …

Amidst the increasingly prevalent smartphone addiction, we introduce StayFocused, a
mobile app to help people focus on their tasks at hand by reducing compulsive smartphone …

We propose an interaction restraint that aims to degrade interactivity of a device, for
example, by asking users to perform a mandatory cognitive task whenever they start an …