Imagining Consequences of Excessive Smartphone Use via a Character-Based Mobile Application

Chow, Kenny K. N.; Leong, Benny Ding; Lee, Brian Y.H.

doi:10.1007/s11469-018-9984-7

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“…While it was expected to find more specific studies by including more search terms aiming for specific behaviors, this was not the case. Based on the excluded studies it can be assumed that studies regarding treatment and secondary or tertiary prevention are more common and larger, which suggests that more efforts are placed on treatment of prevention IA, Internet use disorder, PIU, online gaming, smartphone addiction, and compulsive buying disorder than on prevention (Benson et al, 2014;Chow et al, 2018;Ke & Wong, 2018a;Lindenberg et al, 2017). In this regard, primary prevention of PIU is an emergent research topic, contrary to treatment.…”

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confidence: 99%

The effectiveness of prevention programs for problematic Internet use in adolescents and youths: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Saletti¹,

Broucke²,

Chau³

2021

Cyberpsychology

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Problematic Internet use (PIU) can lead to dysfunction and undesired consequences, especially in adolescents and youths. Preventive interventions can reduce them, but should be built on sound evidence. This review synthesizes the available evidence on the effectiveness of primary prevention programs for PIU in adolescents and youths. It adds to previous reviews by broadening the search to general and specific problematic behavior. Two independent reviewers performed a systematic search for published studies on PIU and internet addiction in English, French and Spanish using PubMed, PsycINFO, Cochrane Register of Controlled Trials, and Scopus. Published experimental and quasi-experimental studies that assessed the effectiveness of primary prevention programs targeting PIU behaviors were considered for inclusion. Full texts for eligible studies were retrieved and assessed for quality. Five studies were retained for narrative synthesis. Three of them based the intervention strategy on an underlying theory, one on media literacy, and one used an educational-based approach. A meta-analysis showed that all five interventions were effective in preventing internet addiction separately. However, when using the Hartung-Knapp-Sidik-Jonkman (HKSJ) estimator and removing one of the studies because of a disproportionate Hedges’ g, combined effects were no longer significant. Although PIU is a popular topic, little is known about ways to prevent it. This review demonstrates that prevention programs can be based on different theoretical approaches, but that the available evidence is too heterogeneous to derive generalizable conclusions concerning their effectiveness.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The effectiveness of prevention programs for problematic Internet use in adolescents and youths: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Saletti¹,

Broucke²,

Chau³

2021

Cyberpsychology

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“…Table 6 provides an overview of the use of smartphone sensors and data in the selected papers and different health areas. [77,95]; accelerometer [32,76,77,79,[95][96][97]; smartphone usage [54,67,77,79]; app usage [54,78], activity recognition API a [78]; text messages, calls, Wi-Fi [78,79]; GPS b [67,[78][79][80]95,97]; Bluetooth, magnetometer, gyroscope, battery level and status [79], camera [98] General well-being Audio features (microphone) [1], accelerometer [99][100][101][102], GPS [99] Fall detection App and smartphone usage [2,71,73,103]; Wi-Fi, temporal context, battery level and status [2,70,71]; accelerometer [2,71,75]; GPS, calls, text messages, activity recognition API [70]; microphone [71,74] Sleep Bluetooth [3,…”

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Passive Sensing of Health Outcomes Through Smartphones: Systematic Review of Current Solutions and Possible Limitations (Preprint)

Trifan¹,

Oliveira²,

Oliveira³

2018

Preprint

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BACKGROUND Technological advancements, together with the decrease in both price and size of a large variety of sensors, has expanded the role and capabilities of regular mobile phones, turning them into powerful yet ubiquitous monitoring systems. At present, smartphones have the potential to continuously collect information about the users, monitor their activities and behaviors in real time, and provide them with feedback and recommendations. OBJECTIVE This systematic review aimed to identify recent scientific studies that explored the passive use of smartphones for generating health- and well-being–related outcomes. In addition, it explores users’ engagement and possible challenges in using such self-monitoring systems. METHODS A systematic review was conducted, following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, to identify recent publications that explore the use of smartphones as ubiquitous health monitoring systems. We ran reproducible search queries on PubMed, IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, and Scopus online databases and aimed to find answers to the following questions: (1) What is the study focus of the selected papers? (2) What smartphone sensing technologies and data are used to gather health-related input? (3) How are the developed systems validated? and (4) What are the limitations and challenges when using such sensing systems? RESULTS Our bibliographic research returned 7404 unique publications. Of these, 118 met the predefined inclusion criteria, which considered publication dates from 2014 onward, English language, and relevance for the topic of this review. The selected papers highlight that smartphones are already being used in multiple health-related scenarios. Of those, physical activity (29.6%; 35/118) and mental health (27.9; 33/118) are 2 of the most studied applications. Accelerometers (57.7%; 67/118) and global positioning systems (GPS; 40.6%; 48/118) are 2 of the most used sensors in smartphones for collecting data from which the health status or well-being of its users can be inferred. CONCLUSIONS One relevant outcome of this systematic review is that although smartphones present many advantages for the passive monitoring of users’ health and well-being, there is a lack of correlation between smartphone-generated outcomes and clinical knowledge. Moreover, user engagement and motivation are not always modeled as prerequisites, which directly affects user adherence and full validation of such systems.

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“…Findings from these studies with longitudinal field trials (from 3 weeks to 3 months) support positive correlation between virtual outcomes and participants' emotional attachment. Using virtual environments and items to show "metaphorical" outcomes of behaviors is commonly regarded as a means to complement typical data visualization (Chow, Leong, & Lee, 2018;Consolvo, Klasnja, McDonald, & Landay, 2014;Froehlich et al, 2012;Lane et al, 2014;Pinske, Weyers, Luther, & Stevens, 2012;Reitberger, Spreicer, & Fitzpatrick, 2014).…”

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Crafting animated parables: an embodied approach to representing lifestyle behaviours for reflection

Chow

2020

Digital Creativity

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Related work in personal informatics, gamification, and feedback suggests that visualizing behavioral data for daily reflection should consider dynamic representations in metaphorical visual narratives with positively or negatively valued outcomes blended in daily life. The causal link between a behavior and its virtual outcomes should be easy to understand. Grounded in embodied cognition, this article proposes a framework guiding the generation of animated parables to meet the above criteria. The guidelines include metaphorical mapping and blending the behavior with a direct cause-effect scenario with similarities in embodied experiences. Application of the guidelines in a series of design workshops generates 47 parables. To evaluate the parables, metrics include naturalness of integrating with life routines, aesthetics of blending into environments, and ease of interpreting the causality. Evaluation results show that more embodied mapping and blending are more likely to result in understandable behavior-outcome links. Designers can follow the guidelines and metrics to generate and compare ideas. Recommendations for crafting better parables are also provided.

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Imagining Consequences of Excessive Smartphone Use via a Character-Based Mobile Application

Cited by 9 publications

References 22 publications

The effectiveness of prevention programs for problematic Internet use in adolescents and youths: A systematic review and meta-analysis

The effectiveness of prevention programs for problematic Internet use in adolescents and youths: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Passive Sensing of Health Outcomes Through Smartphones: Systematic Review of Current Solutions and Possible Limitations (Preprint)

Crafting animated parables: an embodied approach to representing lifestyle behaviours for reflection

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