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Changing Computer-Usage Behaviours: What Users Want, Use, and Experience
- Source :
- Asian CHI Symposium 2021, ACM, 53-60
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Technology based screentime, the time an individual spends engaging with their computer or cell phone, has increased exponentially over the past decade, but perhaps most alarmingly amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Although many software based interventions exist to reduce screentime, users report a variety of issues relating to the timing of the intervention, the strictness of the tool, and its ability to encourage organic, long-term habit formation. We develop guidelines for the design of behaviour intervention software by conducting a survey to investigate three research questions and further inform the mechanisms of computer-related behaviour change applications. RQ1: What do people want to change and why/how? RQ2: What applications do people use or have used, why do they work or not, and what additional support is desired? RQ3: What are helpful/unhelpful computer breaks and why? Our survey had 68 participants and three key findings. First, time management is a primary concern, but emotional and physical side-effects are equally important. Second, site blockers, self-trackers, and timers are commonly used, but they are ineffective as they are easy-to-ignore and not personalized. Third, away-from-computer breaks, especially involving physical activity, are helpful, whereas on-screen breaks are unhelpful, especially when they are long, because they are not refreshing. We recommend personalized and closed-loop computer-usage behaviour change support and especially encouraging off-the-computer screentime breaks.<br />Comment: 11 pages, 9 figures, originally published in the proceedings of the Asian CHI Symposium 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 53 to 60
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- Asian CHI Symposium 2021, ACM, 53-60
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2201.00303
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3429360.3468180