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Social media websites thrive on user engagement by employing Attention Capture Damaging Patterns (ACDPs), e.g., infinite scroll, that prey on cognitive vulnerabilities to distract users. Prior work has taxonomized these ACDPs, but we have yet to measure ...

To support learning, students need to be able to control their time and attention when using digital devices like smartphones and laptops for study-related tasks. However, self-regulation skills are rarely discussed as a basic part of digital literacy. ...

Characterizing the effects of notifications and pop-ups on reading comprehension, eye movements, and reader experience can deepen our understanding of digital reading behaviors. However, notifications are highly disruptive and can significantly impact ...

Digital self-control tools (DSCTs) help people control their time and attention on digital devices, using interventions like distraction blocking or usage tracking. Most studies of DSCTs’ effectiveness have focused on whether a single intervention ...

An increasing number of traffic accidents are attributed to distracted driving, encompassing both mind wandering (MW) and secondary task-related distractions. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have various support features to reduce these safety issues. However, ...

Camera-based driver monitoring systems (DMS) are a mature technology capable of reliably detecting a wide range of driver behaviours and states [3, 7]. However, fully realising the safety potential of DMS requires accurate monitoring be paired with ...

While animations can minimize attention costs for desktop notifications, their application for Optical see-through Head-Mounted Display (OHMD) notifications is underexplored. To investigate the effectiveness of animation on OHMD notifications in ...

Optical see-through head-mounted displays (OHMDs) can provide just-in-time digital assistance to users while they are engaged in ongoing tasks. However, given users’ limited attentional resources when multitasking, there is a need to concisely and ...

Online meetings are indispensable in collaborative remote work environments, but they are vulnerable to distractions due to their distributed and location-agnostic nature. While distraction often leads to a decrease in online meeting quality due to loss ...

Currently, development of safety in driving is advancing. Technology in safety in driving can be found in cars. A higher safety precautions is expected with lots of technology implemented in the car to minimize road accidents. However, most of the ...

Building occupants are complex in the aspects of the indoor environment that satisfies them. Thermal comfort-driven systems control, office floor plan design, and lighting or acoustics considerations are all driven by conventional understandings of how ...

As one of the manifestations of virtual reality (VR) in education, virtual classroom allows students to enjoy a near-real classroom experience. VR class creates much better engagement and helps to stimulate interest and motivation in learning, making it ...

“Study with me” videos contain footage of people studying for hours, in which social components like conversations or informational content like instructions are absent. Recently, they became increasingly popular on video-sharing platforms. This paper ...

The feeling of lying in the restricted bore of an MRI scanner, surrounded by loud noises and not allowed to move, is a psychological burden for patients. Children especially have problems to lie still during the examination and sometimes exhibit intense ...

Virtual reality has demonstrated successful outcomes for treating social anxiety disorders, or helping to improve social skills. Some studies showed that various factors can impact the level of participants' anxiety during public speaking. However, the ...

Driving and biking are complex and attention-demanding tasks for which distractions are a major safety hazard.

Modeling driving-related attention with regard to audio-visual distractions and assessing the attentional overload could help drivers to reduce ...

In this study, we provide a first look at driver responses when using augmented reality (AR) head-up displays (HUDs) during an unexpected and potentially dangerous event. Twenty participants followed a lead car in a driving simulator while completing no ...

Organizations provide their employees with decision support systems (DSS) to facilitate successful decision making. However, the mere provision of a DSS may not be sufficient to facilitate beneficial work outcomes because employees often do not rely on a ...

Vibration is an efficient way of conveying information from a device to its user, and it is increasingly used for wrist or finger-worn devices such as smart rings. Unexpected vibrations or sounds from the environment may disrupt the perception of such ...

Beyond being the world's largest social network, Facebook is for many also one of its greatest sources of digital distraction. For students, problematic use has been associated with negative effects on academic achievement and general wellbeing. To ...