Goldentime: Exploring system-driven timeboxing and micro-financial incentives for self-regulated phone use

Joonyoung Park; Hyunsoo Lee; Sangkeun Park

doi:10.1145/3411764.3445489

Goldentime: Exploring system-driven timeboxing and micro-financial incentives for self-regulated phone use

Joonyoung Park, Hyunsoo Lee, Sangkeun Park

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Abstract

User-driven intervention tools such as self-tracking help users to self-regulate problematic smartphone usage. These tools basically assume active user engagement, but prior studies warned a lack of user engagement over time. This paper proposes GoldenTime,a mobile app that promotes self-regulated usage behavior via system-driven proactive timeboxing and micro-fnancial incentives framed as gain or loss for behavioral reinforcement. We conducted a large-scale user study (n = 210) to explore how our proactive timeboxing and micro-fnancial incentives infuence users' smartphone usage behaviors. Our fndings show that GoldenTime's timeboxing based micro-fnancial incentives are efective in self-regulating smartphone usage, and incentive framing has a signifcant impact on user behavior.We provide practical design guidelines for persuasive technology design related to promoting digital wellbeing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Making Waves, Combining Strengths
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450380966
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445489
Publication status	Published - 6 May 2021
Event	2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021 - Virtual, Online, Japan Duration: 8 May 2021 → 13 May 2021

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Conference	2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Virtual, Online
Period	8/05/21 → 13/05/21

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© 2021 ACM.

Keywords

Digital wellbeing
Financial incentive
Self-regulation
Smartphone intervention
Timeboxing

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Park, J., Lee, H., & Park, S. (2021). Goldentime: Exploring system-driven timeboxing and micro-financial incentives for self-regulated phone use. In CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445489

Park, Joonyoung ; Lee, Hyunsoo ; Park, Sangkeun. / Goldentime : Exploring system-driven timeboxing and micro-financial incentives for self-regulated phone use. CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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