Towards Multi-device Digital Self-control Tools - Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021
Conference Papers Year : 2021

Towards Multi-device Digital Self-control Tools

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Users can nowadays take advantage of Digital-Self Control Tools (DSCT) to self-regulate their usage of applications and websites by means of interventions like timers and lockout mechanisms. However, DSCTs mainly focus on the interaction between users and a single device at a time, while people typically use more than one device, and in a concurrent way. This motivates the need of exploring tools that can adapt to multi-device settings. We present FeelHabits, a DSCT that allows users to set up, through a novel approach, multi-device intentions, i.e., contextual time and launch limits for the simultaneous and/or alternating use of the PC and the smartphone. Stemming from the defined intentions, FeelHabits employs different levels of severity to warn the user about a reached limit on the currently used device. A preliminary study on 7 participants suggests that FeelHabits might be effective for reducing some multi-device behaviors, and opens the way for further research.
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hal-04215514 , version 1 (22-09-2023)

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Alberto Monge Roffarello, Luigi de Russis. Towards Multi-device Digital Self-control Tools. 18th IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), Aug 2021, Bari, Italy. pp.122-131, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-85610-6_8⟩. ⟨hal-04215514⟩
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