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AppDetox: helping users with mobile app addiction

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Markus L�chtefeld,

Matthias B�hmer,

Lyubomir GanevAuthors Info & Claims

MUM '13: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2541831.2541870

Published: 02 December 2013 Publication History

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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.

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MUM '13: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

December 2013

333 pages

ISBN:9781450326483

DOI:10.1145/2541831

General Chairs:
Matthias Kranz
Universit�t Passau, Germany
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K�re Synnes
Lule� University of Technology, Sweden
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Sebastian Boring
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Kristof Van Laerhoven
TU Darmstadt, Germany

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