Personal Tracking of Screen Time on Digital Devices
Behavioral Change
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Rooksby, John
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Asadzadeh, Parvin
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Rost, Mattias
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Morrison, Alistair
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Chalmers, Matthew
Proceedings of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems
2016-05-07
v.1
p.284-296
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: 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.
