Social networking use and RescueTime: The issue of engagement

Emily I M Collins; Anna L. Cox; Jon Bird; Daniel Harrison

doi:10.1145/2638728.2641322

Social networking use and RescueTime: The issue of engagement

Emily I M Collins, Anna L. Cox, Jon Bird, Daniel Harrison

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Abstract

The dramatic rise in the use of social network sites (SNS) has resulted in a number of users feeling stressed about the extent of their personal use. Previous work has established that daily retrospective estimations of SNS use and access to RescueTime not only improve accuracy of estimations but also reduce perceived stress. The present study aimed to extend this by also exploring the influence of prospective estimations on stress and perceived time management. However, the study was thwarted by incredibly low engagement with RescueTime and consequently, no improvement in estimation accuracy and no reduction in stress. This indicates substantial individual differences in engagement and a requirement for external sources of motivation for using personal informatics, beyond the tasks of the study. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s ).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UbiComp 2014 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	687-690
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450330473
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2641322
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2014 - Seattle, USA United States Duration: 13 Sept 2014 → 17 Sept 2014

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Conference	2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2014
Country/Territory	USA United States
City	Seattle
Period	13/09/14 → 17/09/14

Keywords

Personal informatics
Social networking
Stress
Time management

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Social networking use and RescueTime: The issue of engagement. / Collins, Emily I M; Cox, Anna L.; Bird, Jon et al.
UbiComp 2014 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 687-690.

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Collins, EIM, Cox, AL, Bird, J & Harrison, D 2014, Social networking use and RescueTime: The issue of engagement. in UbiComp 2014 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 687-690, 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2014, Seattle, USA United States, 13/09/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2641322

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