Designing for Digital Wellbeing: A Research & Practice Agenda

Marta Cecchinato; John Rooksby; Alexis Hiniker; Sean Munson; Kai Lukoff; Luigina Ciolfi; Anja Thieme; Daniel Harrison

doi:10.1145/3290607.3298998

Designing for Digital Wellbeing: A Research & Practice Agenda

Marta Cecchinato, John Rooksby, Alexis Hiniker, Sean Munson, Kai Lukoff, Luigina Ciolfi, Anja Thieme, Daniel Harrison

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Abstract

Traditionally, many consumer-focused technologies have been designed to maximize user engagement with their products and services. More recently, many technology companies have begun to introduce digital wellbeing features, such as for managing time spent and for encouraging breaks in use. These are in the context of, and likely in response to, renewed concerns in the media about technology dependency and even addiction. The promotion of technology abstinence is also increasingly widespread, e.g., via digital detoxes. Given that digital technologies are an important and valuable feature of many people’s lives, digital wellbeing features are arguably preferable to abstinence.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19)
Subtitle of host publication	May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland UK
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	ACM
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450359702
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3298998
Publication status	Published - 2 May 2019
Event	ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019: CHI’19 Workshop: HCI in China: Research Agenda, Education Curriculum, Industry Partnership, and Communities Building - Scottish Event Campus, Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 4 May 2019 → 9 May 2019 https://chi2019.acm.org/ http://chi2019.acm.org

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Conference	ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019
Abbreviated title	CHI 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	4/05/19 → 9/05/19
Internet address	https://chi2019.acm.org/ http://chi2019.acm.org

Keywords

Digital wellbeing
addiction
meaningful interaction
user engagement

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Cecchinato, M , Rooksby, J, Hiniker, A, Munson, S, Lukoff, K, Ciolfi, L, Thieme, A & Harrison, D 2019, Designing for Digital Wellbeing: A Research & Practice Agenda. in Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19): May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland UK., W17, ACM, New York, NY, USA, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 4/05/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3298998

Designing for Digital Wellbeing: A Research & Practice Agenda. / Cecchinato, Marta ; Rooksby, John; Hiniker, Alexis et al.
Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19): May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland UK. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2019. W17.

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