Think Inside the Box: Investigating the Consequences of Everyday Physical Opt-Out Strategies for Mindful Smartphone Use

Haliburton, Luke; Lammel, Maximilian; Karolus, Jakob; Schmidt, Albrecht

doi:10.1145/3568444.3568452

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“…Also, for waiting time that had already been completed, participants only reported the activities they actually performed, putting aside the question of how they intended to spend that time. Previous studies have suggested that people are likely to engage in harmful activities, such as absent-mined phone usage [19,62], when encountering unexpected gap time. Future research should explicitly consider people's intentions for waiting time activities, as well as situational factors that facilitate or hinder the translation of these intentions into the actual activities being performed.…”

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confidence: 99%

Fragmented Moments, Balanced Choices: How Do People Make Use of Their Waiting Time?

Zheng,

Gao

2024

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Everyone spends some time waiting every day. HCI research has developed tools for boosting productivity while waiting. However, little is known about how people naturally spend their waiting time. We conducted an experience sampling study with 21 working adults who used a mobile app to report their daily waiting time activities over two weeks. The aim of this study is to understand the activities people do while waiting and the effect of situational factors. We found that participants spent about 60% of their waiting time on leisure activities, 20% on productive activities, and 20% on maintenance activities. These choices are sensitive to situational factors, including accessible device, location, and certain routines of the day. Our study complements previous ones by demonstrating that people purpose waiting time for various goals beyond productivity and to maintain work-life balance. Our findings shed light on future empirical research and system design for time management.

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Section: Limitations and Directions For Future Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%