Adaptive Smart Technology Use: The Need for Meta-Self-Regulation

Contrasting Screen-Time and Green-Time: A Case for Using Smart Technology and Nature to Optimize Learning Processes

“…Given that screen watching and screen use is more likely to affect attentional and cognitive processes by hard fascination (Kaplan and Berman, 2010 ), to an extent that sometimes renders mobile technology use addictive (e.g. Rosen et al, 2013 ; Billieux et al, 2015 ), thus tapping into self-regulatory processes (Schilhab, 2017b ), nature's facilitating effect on mind wandering becomes noteworthy.…”

m-Reading: Fiction reading from mobile phones

“…The above are only a few of the possible affects disregarded by Mangen (2008, 2016) that can make mobile phones and other digital devices instil value-positive alterity relations consonant to the pleasures sought from fiction. Needless to say, we acknowledge the fact that mobile phones need not be associated with positive affects across all readers and situations (Samaha and Hawi, 2016; Schilhab, 2017a).…”

Socio-Cultural Influences on Situated Cognition in Nature

“…However, socio-cultural processes also work on a far larger cultural scale (e.g., Buijs et al, 2009; Kloek et al, 2015). Obviously, in the modern discourse, nature is often articulated alongside concepts such as climate change, sustainability, and the Anthropocene, and in opposition to society, technology, and artificial intelligence (e.g., Steffen et al, 2007; Schilhab, 2015b, 2017b,c). Today, natural environments are considered to offer peace and quiet and especially time off from the stressful rat race that seems to dominate human life (e.g., Pearson and Craig, 2014).…”