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Extreme mediation: observing mental and physical health in everyday life

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The excessive use of smartphones resulting in extreme mediation has been identified to result in psychological problems including anxiety, depression, and an overall neural change that is impacting people of all ages on many levels. An exploratory study using Experience Sampling Method (ESM) concluded a significant increase in positive mood, conscious awareness of the surrounding environment, and an increased number of participants self-reporting physical activity lasting 15 minutes on days without smartphone use. Results suggest the need to avoid increased use of noninvasive technology such as smartphones resulting in deterioration of mental and physical health.

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    UbiComp '14 Adjunct: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication
    September 2014
    1409 pages
    ISBN:9781450330473
    DOI:10.1145/2638728
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    1. conscious awareness
    2. extreme mediation
    3. mental health
    4. physical activity
    5. smartphone overuse

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    September 13 - 17, 2014
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    • (2019)HCI and Affective HealthProceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3290605.3300475(1-17)Online publication date: 2-May-2019
    • (2017)The Experience Sampling Method on Mobile DevicesACM Computing Surveys10.1145/312398850:6(1-40)Online publication date: 6-Dec-2017

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