NUGU: A group-based intervention app for improving self-regulation of limiting Smartphone use

Minsam Ko; Subin Yang; Joonwon Lee; Christian Heizmann; Jinyoung Jeong; Uichin Lee; Daehee Shin; Koji Yatani; Junehwa Song; Kyong Mee Chung

doi:10.1145/2675133.2675244

NUGU: A group-based intervention app for improving self-regulation of limiting Smartphone use

Minsam Ko, Subin Yang, Joonwon Lee, Christian Heizmann, Jinyoung Jeong, Uichin Lee, Daehee Shin, Koji Yatani, Junehwa Song, Kyong Mee Chung

Department of Psychology

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Abstract

Our preliminary study reveals that individuals use various management strategies for limiting smartphone use, ranging from keeping smartphones out of reach to removing apps. However, we also found that users often had difficulties in maintaining their chosen management strategies due to lack of self-regulation. In this paper, we present NUGU, a groupbased intervention app for improving self-regulation of limiting smartphone use through leveraging social support: groups of people limit their use together by sharing their limiting information. NUGU is designed based on social cognitive theory, and it has been developed iteratively through two pilot tests. Our three-week user study (n = 62) demonstrated that compared with its non-social counterpart, the NUGU users' usage amount significantly decreased and their perceived level of managing disturbances improved. Furthermore, our exit interview confirmed that NUGU's design elements are effective for achieving limiting goals.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	1235-1245
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450329224
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675244
Publication status	Published - 2015 Feb 28
Event	18th ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015 - BC, Canada Duration: 2015 Mar 14 → 2015 Mar 18

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Name	CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

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Other	18th ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015
Country/Territory	Canada
City	BC
Period	15/3/14 → 15/3/18

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Computer Networks and Communications

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Ko, M., Yang, S., Lee, J., Heizmann, C., Jeong, J., Lee, U., Shin, D., Yatani, K., Song, J., & Chung, K. M. (2015). NUGU: A group-based intervention app for improving self-regulation of limiting Smartphone use. In CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 1235-1245). (CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675244

Ko, Minsam ; Yang, Subin ; Lee, Joonwon et al. / NUGU : A group-based intervention app for improving self-regulation of limiting Smartphone use. CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2015. pp. 1235-1245 (CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing).

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Ko M, Yang S, Lee J, Heizmann C, Jeong J, Lee U et al. NUGU: A group-based intervention app for improving self-regulation of limiting Smartphone use. In CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2015. p. 1235-1245. (CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing). doi: 10.1145/2675133.2675244

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