LocknType: Lockout Task Intervention for Discouraging Smartphone App Use
- Title
- LocknType: Lockout Task Intervention for Discouraging Smartphone App Use
- Author
- 고민삼
- Issue Date
- 2019-05
- Publisher
- ACM
- Citation
- CHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Article no. 697
- Abstract
- Instant access and gratification make it difficult for us to self-limit the use of smartphone apps. We hypothesize that a slight increase in the interaction cost of accessing an app could successfully discourage app use. We propose a proactive intervention that requests users to perform a simple lockout task (e.g., typing a fixed length number) whenever a target app is launched. We investigate how a lockout task with varying workloads (i.e., pause only without number
input, 10-digit input, and 30-digit input) influence a user’s decision making, by a 3-week, in-situ experiment with 40 participants. Our findings show that even the pause-only task that requires a user to press a button to proceed discouraged an average of 13.1% of app use, and the 30-digit-input task discouraged 47.5%. We derived determinants of app use and non-use decision making for a given lockout task. We further provide implications for persuasive technology design for discouraging undesired behaviors.
- URI
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3290605.3300927https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/121793
- DOI
- 10.1145/3290605.3300927
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- COLLEGE OF COMPUTING[E](소프트웨어융합대학) > MEDIA, CULTURE, AND DESIGN TECHNOLOGY(ICT융합학부) > Articles
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