Guest Lecture by Michael Sobolev, 22 April 2021

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About Michael Sobolev
Michael Sobolev is a behavioral scientist, behavioral designer, and a health technologist. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell Tech and Northwell Health in New York City. He earned his PhD in Behavioral Science from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 2017. Michael’s current research interests include the design of behavioral technology, behavior change and digital nudging, digital and mobile health (mHealth), and behavioral data science.

About the Lecture
Despite the huge advantages of smartphones, a significant proportion of people believe they are over-using their phone and would like to change their mobile habits. As a solution, screen time applications were recently launched by Google and Apple to empower people to change their smartphone usage and to increase digital wellbeing. We conducted a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to test the effectiveness of two digital nudges for reducing screen time: passive digital nudge in the form of grayscale mode and active digital nudge with time limits. These features are available on nearly any smartphone and are designed to nudge people to spend less time on the phone, for example with imposing time limits for ‘addictive’ social media apps. We test the effectiveness of these digital nudges for supporting users in their endeavour to self-regulate phone usage and reduce screen time. We also examined the effect of screen time reduction on well-being or academic performance. Finally, we discuss research and practical implications for habitual technology use and digital addiction.

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