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Interactive e-Health Interventions for Digital Addiction
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Interactive e-Health Interventions for Digital Addiction

A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 4227

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. John McAlaney

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Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth BH12 5BB, UK
Interests: social psychology; cyberpsychology; risk behaviours; prevention; intervention; sociotechnical systems; gambling; cybersecurity
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Prof. Raian Ali

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Information and Computing Technology Division, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
Interests: digital wellbeing; persuasive technology; requirements engineering
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Technology provides many opportunities to prevent, mitigate and intervene with health behaviours. This includes actions that have in the past been difficult to achieve in behaviour change, including the collection of objective, automated data through smart devices and the ability to interact with individuals in an intelligent, real-time manner. However, new possibilities create new challenges. Amongst this is the interdisciplinary nature of research and practice in this area, which requires input from health professionals, behaviour change experts, software engineers and more. Further, there is a need to determine the extent to which the extensive health and behaviour change literature that already exists can be applied to interactive e-health interventions, as well as to identify and explore the new capabilities that such technologies afford. In doing so, we must also consider the unintended consequences that interactive e-health systems may create and how systems need to be designed to minimise these risks. This includes wider discussions around transparency, social requirements, adaptability and ethics. This Special Issue is concerned with showcasing examples of interactive e-health research and exploring the opportunities and challenges that technology can bring to this space.

Dr. John McAlaney
Prof. Raian Ali
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Perceptions and Misperceptions of Smartphone Use: Applying the Social Norms Approach
by John McAlaney, Mohamed Basel Almourad, Georgina Powell and Raian Ali
Information 2020, 11(11), 513; https://doi.org/10.3390/info11110513 - 2 Nov 2020
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The social norms approach is an established technique to bring about behaviour change through challenging misperceptions of peer behaviour. This approach is limited by a reliance on self-report and a lack of interactivity with the target population. At the same time, excessive use [...] Read more.
The social norms approach is an established technique to bring about behaviour change through challenging misperceptions of peer behaviour. This approach is limited by a reliance on self-report and a lack of interactivity with the target population. At the same time, excessive use of digital devices, known as digital addiction, has been recognized as an emergent issue. There is potential to apply the social norms approach to digital addiction and, in doing so, address some of the limitations of the social norms field. In this study, we trialled a social norms intervention with a sample of smartphone users (n = 94) recruited from the users of a commercial app designed to empower individuals to reduce their device usage. Our results indicate that most of the sample overestimated peer use of smartphone apps, demonstrating the existence of misperceptions relating to smartphone use. Such misperceptions are the basis for the social norms approach. We also document the discrepancy between self-report and smartphone usage data as recorded through data collected directly from the device. The potential for the application of the social norms approach and directions for future research are discussed. Full article
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