Digital Wellbeing Redefined: Toward User-Centric Approach for Positive Social Media Engagement

Presentation slides of our paper "Digital Wellbeing Redefined: Toward User-Centric Approach for Positive Social Media Engagement" at MOBILESoft 2024.
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1. Digital Wellbeing Redefined: Toward User-Centric Approach for Positive Social Media Engagement Research Forum Track
2. 6.64 billion smartphone users worldwide (80%+) 230 billion downloads in 2021 worldwide Avg American spends over 5h/day on mobile devices Avg American checks phone 96 times/day, or once every 10min 2 Source: Statista, ZIPPIA
3. 6.64 billion smartphone users worldwide (80%+) 230 billion downloads in 2021 worldwide Avg American spends over 5h/day on mobile devices Avg American checks phone 96 times/day, or once every 10min 3 Source: Statista, ZIPPIA Is this a good thing?
4. 4 Digital Addiction Missing Present moment Unlocking phone without realizing it Mindless scrolling Absorbed in short videos Obsessed with “likes” ……
5. 5 Digital Wellbeing Solutions
6. 6 Digital Wellbeing Solutions Focus on Reducing use (assuming it’s bad)
7. 7 Connecting with family and friends Staying Informed with useful information Uplifting content that makes you smile J …… Positive Social Media
8. 8 The problem is not using social media, but not using social media in the way you intend to Get lost in a rabbit hole…
9. 9 Ideal Reality I’ve had a long day, I’ll watch my favorite YouTuber for a bit and go to bed happily… Wait whaaaaat? How is it 2AM already??!! Where did my time go??
10. Redefinition of Digital Wellbeing a harmonious alignment between a user’s intentions and their digital behaviors to enhance long-term wellbeing. 10
11. 11 PauseNow: Personalized, adaptive, user- centric iNtervention for digital well-being
15. Example Use Case 15
16. In this emerging domain… Whare are the key requirements? 16
17. Context-Aware User-Centric To reflect both inter- and intra-individual differences 1.
18. Self-Awareness Healthy Habits Lack of awareness leads to auto-pilot habitual tendencies (e.g., driven by recommendation algorithms) 2.
19. Self-Awareness Healthy Habits Lack of awareness leads to auto-pilot habitual tendencies (e.g., driven by recommendation algorithms) 2.
20. Offer Alternatives Beyond Devices Encourage real-world social interactions and favorite activities based on user preferences 3.
21. User Control vs. Machine Autonomy Proper granularity of control tailored to user preferences 4.
22. User Control vs. Machine Autonomy Proper granularity of control tailored to user preferences 4. SwitchTube CHI 2023
23. Habituation Effect Needs to be mitigated for the intervention to remain fresh and engaging 5.
24. Habituation Effect Needs to be mitigated for the intervention to remain fresh and engaging 5.
25. Future Directions Address key requirements Automate user preference elicitation for enhanced long-term engagement Multimodal AI algorithms to better understand the user’s change of context …… 25
26. 26 The problem is not using social media, but not using social media in the way you intend to Get lost in a rabbit hole…
27. Mindful Digital Usage harmonious alignment between Intentions & Behaviors 27
28. Digital Wellbeing Redefined: Toward User-Centric Approach for Positive Social Media Engagement Research Forum Track Software Engineering Human-Computer Interaction Behavioral Sciences
29. Thanks! PauseNow: https://tinyurl.com/pausenow2024 Email: yzhao@isi.edu LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/yixue-zhao/ Twitter/X: @yixue_zhao 29