Week 9 Research

Research

1. Interpersonal relationship: maintain the relationship and build new friendship online instead of the real world. Interpersonal relationships and online social support be positively associated with Facebook addiction. According to the results shown that online and offline interpersonal relationships, personality traits are the predictor of Facebook addiction, followed by online social support involves offering guidance, advice or feedback;
2. Habitual behaviour: daily behaviour and unconsciously check information on the phone. Due to the fact that young people and females may be more at risk of smartphone addiction, particularly adolescent are prone to compulsive phone usage;
3. Attachment style and personal characteristics: insecure, anxious, depressed, shyness, extraverted and other negative emotions. extraverted individuals may be more likely to use social media, but they also comfortable with people in person as well; insecure attachment styles may mediate the effects of neuroticism on social media addiction;
4. Negative emotions: emotional difficulties such as depression, anxiety and stress lead to mobile addiction. The introverted or disabled person through obsessed with mobile devices to alleviate negative emotions because they are afraid of communicating with others, which build a virtual relationship on the surface to release their negative feelings.

Reference:

Tang, J.-H., Chen, M.-C., Yang, C.-Y., Chung, T.-Y., & Lee, Y.-A. (2016). Personality traits, interpersonal relationships, online social support, and Facebook addiction. Telematics and Informatics, 33(1), 102–108. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2015.06.003

Gao, T., Li, J., Zhang, H., Gao, J., Kong, Y., Hu, Y., & Mei, S. (2018). The influence of alexithymia on mobile phone addiction: The role of depression, anxiety and stress. Journal of Affective Disorders, 225, 761–766. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2017.08.020

Barnes, S. J., Pressey, A. D., & Scornavacca, E. (2019). Mobile ubiquity: Understanding the relationship between cognitive absorption, smartphone addiction and social network services. Computers in Human Behavior, 90, 246–258. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.09.013

Blackwell, D., Leaman, C., Tramposch, R., Osborne, C., & Liss, M. (2017). Extraversion, neuroticism, attachment style and fear of missing out as predictors of social media use and addiction. Personality and Individual Differences, 116, 69–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.04.039

Interview Question

1. Do you ever addict to the mobile?
2. What’s your own definition of mobile addiction?
3. What causes the addictive cycle?
4. Have you ever try to use some methods to avoid that situation happened? Tell your experience about that.
5. Have you ever imagine that if you do not have a mobile phone, what will you do most time of a day?

[if interviewee talked about social media addiction, we can ask about the additional question. For instance: what purpose for you to use social media? if mentioned interpersonal relationship, you can ask: Do you prefer to build the online friendship or in the real world? if online, why?]

Analysis of Interview and Questionnaire

• The target audience that addicted to the smartphone mainly is teenagers;
• People addicted to the mobile devices due to social media addiction, addictive cycle and habitual behaviour;
• People are accustomed to checking daily information at night in their free time;
• YouTube and Twitter, Instagram is people mainly why addicted to social media;
• Even friends accompany people still addicted to the mobile phone for entertainment and maintain, building the online relationship;
• Majority of inhabitants tried to use manage applications to control themselves spend too much time on mobile.

Stand-up

In this week’s stand-up, we introduced our concept, which is to develop a wearable device that can connect to an application to reduce the time that youngster speed on their mobile phone. According to the conversation, there are feedbacks that we got contains the benefits and drawbacks of this device:

The benefit:

• Can reduce the time that spends on their mobile phone to some extent.
• Vibration is a good way to remind people.

The disadvantage:

• Similar to some existing applications.
• This device more like “force” user to do but not themselves willing to do.

Suggestion:

Do not focus on developing an application and “force” user to lock the phone but try some other directions. For example, provide those youngsters who addict to their phone an attractive chance to take part in some activities or make friends in real life.

Questionnaire Raw Data

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17QEzWz4IvKj70liEtDdCs-ezepiGnZjkUMoPMUk9bgU/edit

Interview Results

Interviewee 1:

1. Yes, even now
2. Spend most of the time on mobile, no matter is on classes or in spare time
3. unwilling to study or to do anything then cause to kill time by mobile and found that mobile is quite interesting, eventually get addicted to it.
4. utilise time management applications (i.e. Forest, iHour) to force me to shorten the time spent on mobile.
5. I will watch TV in my most of the time. Just don’t want to do the academic stuff.

Interviewee 2:

1. yes. I like social media like Instagram.
2. like I can do anything on the mobile phone. Spend too much time on my smartphone. Almost 18hrs a day or more.
3. stress, need to use the phone to relax; social isolation; something that I have to do on my phone, such as the group discussing online; E-Reading.
4. Yes, but failed. I used an app which can lock your phone, only you answer a difficult question correctly, you can unlock your phone. But I deleted the App at last.
5. Maybe watch TV, play the laptop, go out with friends, do some exercise with friends or family.
6. prefer real-life relationship, because only the real friends can company with you when you feel sad, and they can give you true feelings.

Interviewee 3:

1. Yes. There is a period of time I addicted to the mobile much. During that period, I had nothing to do at that time, only could watch the mobile.
2. The mobile definition is kept using and watching the phone every day. If people have spare time, they will pick up their phones and spend all the time on it.
3. I think the boredom cause an addictive cycle. People will find something new from mobile.
4. I will let myself busy and away from the mobile physically by reading some books or learn something to distract.
5. I couldn't live without mobile a day, but if it happens, I will try to read a book, do some handwork, do homework to make the life more meaningful.
6. Do you prefer to build online….? I prefer building friendship in the real world, online friendship is easier to make friends, but not that real. Because you couldn’t observe the emotions that the people you chat with. It greatly reduces the authenticity when you making friends.

Interviewee 4:

1. Yes, I can play my cell phone now whenever I have free time.
2. Spend more time on the phone every day than I do in class.
3. I have no good self-control. Mostly, I don't know why I have to touch my cell phone when I'm free, but it has become a particularly scary habit.
4. Generally not, because I know that I should study or should focus on time cannot play mobile phone.
5. So I'll have some free time, I can go out for a walk after I get up, and so on, there are many things to do.
6. Because a lot of people in addition to school hours, need to contact in the spare time, so I will use the social media app. Of course, I prefer real friends, because I do not think that friends need too much, in real life can be good friends.

Interviewee 5:

1. Yes, often.
2. Walking on the road will also be ready to take out the phone to see, even if they do not have any message prompts.
3. I don't know, maybe it's your life habits.
4. I have used an efficiency tool or a tomato working method that specifically helps people, but it has a poor effect.
5. I can't imagine, because I would be very insecure if I didn't have a cell phone on the day I went out.
6. I prefer to make friends in real life because I can talk or eat and play together in reality. If you are a friend on the web, you may be limited to discussing things that are of common interest.

Interviewee 6:

1. Not really;
2. habitual behaviour, due to daily check their information on the phone;
3. time-consuming, people are more likely use social media to communicate with friends and family instead of the real world;
4. use the application to remind me in setting period;
5. sleep and travel.