“I finally felt I had the tools to control these urges”: Empowering Students to Achieve Their Device Use Goals With the Reduce Digital Distraction Workshop

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Digital self-control tools (DSCTs) help people control their time and attention on digital devices, using interventions like distraction blocking or usage tracking. Most studies of DSCTs' effectiveness have focused on whether a single intervention reduces time spent on a single device. In reality, people may require combinations of DSCTs to achieve more subjective goals across multiple devices. We studied how DSCTs can address individual needs of university students (n = 280), using a workshop where students reflect on their goals before exploring relevant tools. At 1-3 month follow-ups, 95% of respondents still used at least one type of DSCT, typically applied across multiple devices, and there was substantial variation in the tool combinations chosen. We observed a large increase in self-reported digital self-control, suggesting that providing a space to articulate goals and self-select appropriate DSCTs is a powerful way to support people who struggle to self-regulate digital device use.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelCHI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems
Antal sider20
ForlagAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Publikationsdato2024
Artikelnummer251
ISBN (Elektronisk)9798400703300
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2024
Begivenhed2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems, CHI 2024 - Hybrid, Honolulu, USA
Varighed: 11 maj 202416 maj 2024

Konference

Konference2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems, CHI 2024
LandUSA
ByHybrid, Honolulu
Periode11/05/202416/05/2024
SponsorACM SIGCHI
NavnConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Bibliografisk note

Funding Information:
This work was funded by an Oxford Visiting Fellowship from the Carlsberg Foundation [grant number CF20-0678] to UL. UL also acknowledges kind support from the Lucy Halsall Fund at Linacre College, University of Oxford, and the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science's DISTRACT project ['The Political Economy of Distraction in Digitized Denmark', supported by the H2020 European Research Council, grant number 834540].

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