An app that encourages friends to put down their phones
For those of you who were wagering on the results of the Singapore Computer Society's Splash award, wonder no more: the top prize has gone to Apple Tree,
Science says parents with smartphones are more likely to let their children fall into snake pits
Yale economist Craig Palsson has a new article [pdf] asking whether the growing use of smartphones by parents of young children is responsible for the increased rate of
“Distraction, multi-tasking, and aimless drifting is mandatory”
From a class on “Wasting time on the Internet” at University of Pennsylvania: Using our laptops and a wifi connection as our only materials, this class will focus
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No, it’s not a smartphone made of noodles (though that would be awesome); it’s a Danish project for reducing smartphone distraction in the classroom. It’s super-simple: students come
Speaking at Princeton next Thursday, November 6
I’m going to be at Princeton next week, doing a more academic-than-usual talk on contemplative computing and The Distraction Addiction. I'm appearing there as part of the “Pay Attention:
Tomorrow on CBC’s Spark: Addiction By Design
Nora Young’s Spark will run a program on “Addiction by Design” tomorrow, featuring interviews with Natasha Dow Schull (who has written some great stuff about the design of video
“The classroom is an excellent opportunity to practice mindfulness”
Ohio State communications professor Jesse Fox, whose work I talk about in my book, explains “Why I don’t allow devices in my classes.” If you’re a teacher, you
“I have a classroom full of riders and elephants, but I’m trying to teach the riders”
“I teach theory and practice of social media at NYU, and am an advocate and activist for the free culture movement, so I’m a pretty unlikely candidate for
Mindfulness improves brain computer interface control
This is very interesting: a team at the University of Minnesota led by Bin He, a professor of biomedical engineering, has conducted a study measuring the ability of
“I took the iPhone into my life without ever really thinking about what it was gonna take from me”
Last year, Google Ventures design partner Jake Knapp published an essay about his “distraction-free iPhone,” which got a fair amount of attention. It started when he realized that