1. Objective Usage Assessment and Continual Intervention System for Smartphone Addiction Study

Title(KR)

• 스마트폰 중독 연구와 치료를 위한 사용량 측정 및 지속 관리 시스템

Title(ENG)

• Objective Usage Assessment and Continual Intervention System for Smartphone Addiction Study

Keywords(KR)

• smartphone addiction, human behavior, medical IT system, objective assessment, statistical analysis.

Keywords(ENG)

• smartphone addiction, human behavior, medical IT system, objective assessment, statistical analysis.

Author

• Heejune Ahn, Wanbok Choi

Abstract(ENG)

For the recent 5-6 years, the ratio of smart phone users in South Korea has increased to over 65% of cellular subscribers and half of all population. While smartphones have given enormous convenience to our lives, pathological use of smartphones has brought a new mental health concern among the community. Therefore, huge interest sheds on the studies on the cause analysis and treatment of smartphone addiction. However, the traditional clinic approach based survey and interview has serious drawbacks of its subjectivity and inability of continual monitoring and treatment. In this paper, SAMS (smartphone addiction management system) is presented, which monitors the application usage pattern, provides statistical analysis, and policy-based usage intervention. A trail test is performed for checking he reliability and efficacy of SAMS in smartphone addiction research, and some analysis on the collected data are done: daily use count, not daily use time, has strong influence on smartphone addiction: CC=0.62 and CC =0.00 for the correlation coefficients of counts and times with total survey score, and p = 0.047 and p = 0.507 for t-test analysis of contrast group.

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