Time off: Designing lively representations as imaginative triggers for healthy smartphone use

Ka Nin Chow

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Abstract

This paper describes the approach employed in an ongoing project aiming to foster healthy smartphone use via Time Off, a mobile application presenting an animated genie on the screen together with a physical jacket for the phone. The genie becomes tired and ill, when one spends prolonged time on the phone. Time Off demonstrates application of the liveliness framework, grounded in concepts from cognitive science including animacy and blending, to designing dynamic representations of behavioral data that stimulate users’ imagination of possible outcomes and reflection on the causes, highlighting the motivators for a change. We conduct a field trial with 14 participants for two to six weeks. Qualitative findings show that participants having intention to change expressed more levels of imagination and reflection. Their logged data also show reduction in length or frequency of use sessions, suggesting that lively representations can project a kind of imaginative trigger that motivates people.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPersuasive Technology - 13th International Conference, PERSUASIVE 2018, Proceedings
EditorsPlinio P. Morita, Catherine M. Burns, Jaap Ham, Evangelos Karapanos
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages135-146
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783319789774
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2018
Event13th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2018 - [state] ON, Canada
Duration: 18 Apr 201819 Apr 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10809 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2018
Country/TerritoryCanada
City[state] ON
Period18/04/1819/04/18

Keywords

  • Behavior change
  • Internet or mobile addiction
  • Liveliness

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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