Paper Info
Title
Personal Tracking of Screen Time on Digital Devices.
Abstract
Numerous studies have tracked people's everyday use of digital devices, but without consideration of how such data might be of personal interest to the user. We have developed a personal tracking application that enables users to automatically monitor their 'screen time' on mobile devices (iOS and Android) and computers (Mac and Windows). The application interface enables users to combine screen time data from multiple devices. We trialled the application for 28+ days with 21 users, collecting log data and interviewing each user. We found that there is interest in personal tracking in this area, but that the study participants were less interested in quantifying their overall screen time than in gaining data about their use of specific devices and applications. We found that personal tracking of device use is desirable for goals including: increasing productivity, disciplining device use, and cutting down on use.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2858036.2858055
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
Personal tracking, Multi-device Use, Software Trial, Qualitative Interviews, Lived Informatics, Design
Android (operating system),Personal area network,Computer science,Screen time,Interview,Qualitative interviews,Human–computer interaction,Mobile device,Application interface,Multimedia,Personal information manager
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-3362-7
6
0.42
References 
Authors
32
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
John Rooksby132123.19
Parvin Asadzadeh2272.78
Mattias Rost337822.31
Alistair Morrison430519.13
Matthew Chalmers52033174.20