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Assessing novel digital wellbeing interventions for smartphones
keywords ANDROID, DIGITAL WELLBEING, HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION, SOFTWARE
Reference persons FULVIO CORNO, LUIGI DE RUSSIS
External reference persons Alberto Monge Roffarello
Research Groups DAUIN - GR-10 - Intelligent and Interactive Systems - e-LITE
Thesis type EXPERIMENTAL, RESEARCH
Description Nowadays, several tools for monitoring and controlling smartphone usage and achieving "digital wellbeing" exist. These Digital Self-Control Tools (DSCTs) allow users to track their smartphone use and to define interventions, e.g., timers and app blockers, to self-regulate their behavior with the smartphone. Unfortunately, the mechanisms employed in such tools are often not effective in the long-term. A more promising approach is to have a DSCT able to act as a proactive, yet personalized, learning support on how to use the smartphone in a better way.
The goal of this thesis is to conduct an extensive evaluation of this approach. To do so, the student will start from a previously-developed Android app and he/she will refine, review, and simplify it. The realized Android app will be, then, used in a months-long user study to assess the long-term efficacy of the adopted approach. Eventually, results from this assessment will be analyzed and a set of recommendations will be produced.
The outcomes of the work, if satisfying and appropriate, will be made freely available as open source/open data.
Required skills Basi di programmazione Android, in Java/Kotlin. Conoscenze pregresse su come progettare e condurre uno studio utente sono un plus.
Deadline 10/10/2021
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