Designing for digital wellbeing: from theory to practice a sco** review

RS Al-Mansoori, D Al-Thani, R Ali - Human Behavior and …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
In a world that is highly dependent on digital connectivity, technology use is becoming
unavoidable, intense, and possibly harmful. The pervasiveness of technology which has …

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 …

Time2stop: Adaptive and explainable human-ai loop for smartphone overuse intervention

A Orzikulova, H **ao, Z Li, Y Yan, Y Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
Despite a rich history of investigating smartphone overuse intervention techniques, AI-based
just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI) methods for overuse reduction are lacking. We …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the effectiveness of apps designed to reduce mobile phone use and prevent maladaptive mobile phone use: multimethod study

FI Rahmillah, A Tariq, M King… - Journal of Medical …, 2023‏ - jmir.org
Background Mobile apps are a popular strategy for reducing mobile phone use and
preventing maladaptive mobile phone use (MMPU). Previous research efforts have been …

The challenge of understanding what users want: Inconsistent preferences and engagement optimization

J Kleinberg, S Mullainathan… - Management …, 2024‏ - pubsonline.informs.org
Online platforms have a wealth of data, run countless experiments, and use industrial-scale
algorithms to optimize user experience. Despite this, many users seem to regret the time …

The loop and reasons to break it: Investigating infinite scrolling behaviour in social media applications and reasons to stop

JO Rixen, LM Meinhardt, M Glöckler… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
Today's social media (SM) platforms are toolkits consisting of features with different use
cases, some strongly related to habitual and regretful use. Especially Infinite Scrolling (IS) …

Towards understanding the dark patterns that steal our attention

A Monge Roffarello, L De Russis - Chi conference on human factors in …, 2022‏ - dl.acm.org
Contemporary digital services often adopt mechanisms, eg, recommendations and infinite
scrolling, that exploit users' psychological vulnerabilities to maximize time spent and daily …

SwitchTube: A Proof-of-Concept System Introducing “Adaptable Commitment Interfaces” as a Tool for Digital Wellbeing

K Lukoff, U Lyngs, K Shirokova, R Rao, L Tian… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
YouTube has many features, such as homepage recommendations, that encourage users to
explore its vast library of videos. However, when users visit YouTube with a specific …

“Are you still watching?”: exploring unintended user behaviors and dark patterns on video streaming platforms

A Chaudhary, J Saroha, K Monteiro… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - dl.acm.org
Dark patterns in UI promote addictive behaviors. We explore how the effects of dark patterns
in video streaming applications can be exacerbated by a range of temporal and contextual …

CatAlyst: domain-extensible intervention for preventing task procrastination using large generative models

R Arakawa, H Yakura, M Goto - … of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
CatAlyst uses generative models to help workers' progress by influencing their task
engagement instead of directly contributing to their task outputs. It prompts distracted …