JoMo – the Joy of Missing out: a User Study of Smartphone Usage Habits
The portability and extended functionalities that phones haveachieved over the years made them ubiquitous. In conse-quence, smartphones are have become intrinsic in people’slives. However, such availability and accessibility can leadto overuse. In this paper, we conceptualize a type of misuse,namely the Open-Close pattern, and propose a provotype tocombat it by creating disruptions. The provotype is in the formof an android app called JoMo. We conduct a qualitative studyfor a week where we examine how participants react to disrup-tions of the Open-Close use pattern. The findings show thatphone misuse is highly contextual, and that digital wellbeingcannot be necessarily reduced to screen time and notifications.Moreover, provoking people through disruptions to stop usingtheir phones can be successful, but only in specific situations.
https://vbn.aau.dk/ws/files/473468399/JoMo___the_Joy_of_Missing_out_a_User_Study_of_Smartphone.pdf