Abstract
Our smartphones sit beside our plates and accompany us to bed; they are carried into gyms and bathrooms. We scroll while cooking, walking, talking on the phone, or watching TV series. Smartphones have become constant companions in everyday life, capturing our attention during routine activities related to hygiene, eating, working and entertainment. These mundane tasks, increasingly interrupted by scrolling, became the focus of our research initiated in 2024, when we surveyed young adults in China (N = 363) about their mindless scrolling behaviors. The online questionnaire reveals the intensity of smartphone multitasking among young Chinese in process of conducting daily activities including brushing teeth, cooking, driving, working and so on, the rhythm of which is dictated by the stimuli and information that appear on the screens of smartphones. The results presented in this paper is a part of outcomes from the #HumanePhone international research and education project, which is based at the Jagiellonian University in Poland. The #HumanePhone project aims to examine smartphone use habits among individuals from different countries and cultural backgrounds, who speak different languages but use their phones in a very similar way.
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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
PHONE USAGE, SMARTPHONE MULTITASKING, DIGITAL HABITS, SCROLLING, MOBILE MEDIA
