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AppDetox: helping users with mobile app addiction
Markus Löchtefeld,Matthias Böhmer,Lyubomir Ganev +2 more
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AppDetox is presented: an app that allows users to purposely create rules that keep them from using certain apps, and finds that people are rather rigorous when restricting their app use, and that mostly they suppress use of social networking and messaging apps.Abstract:
With the increasing adoption of smartphones also a problematic phenomena become apparent: People are changing their habits and become addicted to different services that these devices provide. In this paper we present AppDetox: an app that allows users to purposely create rules that keep them from using certain apps. We describe our deployment of the app on a mobile application store, and present initial findings gained through observation of about 11,700 users of the application. We find that people are rather rigorous when restricting their app use, and that mostly they suppress use of social networking and messaging apps.read more
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