Push Away the Smartphone
Investigating Methods to Counter Problematic Smartphone Use Are you concerned about how much of your time your phone steals? If so, what can you do about it if you don’t want to – or can’t – use self-control or restrictive measures? We will be presenting our research in a LBW poster session at CHI in Glasgow in 2019. With my co-researchers Jose Ingacio Rocca, Ben Cowan and Russell Beale, we trialled the use of a nonconscious behaviour change technique, approach bias retraining, on a Tabletop surface. We examined whether repeated actions of pushing away smartphones and pulling books towards you … More