Designing solutions to mediate co-located smartphone usage
department or school: Science, Irving K. Barber Faculty of (Okanagan)
department or school: Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics, Department of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Khatra, Karanmeet Singh
issued: 2022-12-08T23:54:13Z
issued: 2022
related degree: Master of Science - MSc
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: There is a growing concern that smartphone usage in front of family or friends can be bothersome and even deteriorate relationships. In my thesis, I design solutions to improve co-located communication between partners. I start my exploration with a survey examining co-located smartphone usage among partners. Results show that people often feel frustrated when their partner uses a smartphone in front of them and are not fully aware of their partner’s smartphone activities when co-located. This motivated me to design a smartphone application, CoAware, for sharing smartphone activity-related information between partners. Results from a user study with couples show that CoAware has the potential to improve smartphone activity awareness among co-located partners. However, CoAware doesn’t fully grasp the communication facilitation aspect desired. Thus, I further explore ways to strengthen conversation between co-located couples by introducing a smartphone agent which is designed to interact with humans - like a human. With a user study, I investigate the effects of agent mediation on communication dynamics around co-located smartphone usage in couples. Results reveal that the agent helps motivate users to reduce smartphone usage and is beneficial in promoting co-located interactions.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/83383
note: Designing Solutions to MediateCo-located Smartphone UsagebyKaranmeet Singh KhatraA THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OFTHE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OFMASTER OF SCIENCEinTHE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES(Computer Science)THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA(Okanagan)December 2022© Karanmeet Singh Khatra, 2022The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommendto the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a thesis/dissertation en-titled:Designing Solutions to Mediate Co-located Smartphone Us-agesubmitted by Karanmeet Singh Khatra in partial fulfilment of the require-ments of the degree of Master of Science.Dr. Mohammad Khalad Hasan, CMPS, Irving K. Barber Faculty of ScienceSupervisorDr. Shan Du, CMPS, Irving K. Barber Faculty of ScienceSupervisory Committee MemberDr. Apurva Narayan, CMPS, Irving K. Barber Faculty of ScienceSupervisory Committee MemberDr. Jahangir Hossain, School of Engineering, Faculty of Applied ScienceUniversity ExamineriiAbstractThere is a growing concern that smartphone usage in front of family orfriends can be bothersome and even deteriorate relationships. In my thesis,I design solutions to improve co-located communication between partners.I start my exploration with a survey examining co-located smartphone us-age among partners. Results show that people often feel frustrated whentheir partner uses a smartphone in front of them and are not fully awareof their partner’s smartphone activities when co-located. This motivatedme to design a smartphone application, CoAware, for sharing smartphoneactivity-related information between partners. Results from a user studywith couples show that CoAware has the potential to improve smartphoneactivity awareness among co-located partners. However, CoAware doesn’tfully grasp the communication facilitation aspect desired. Thus, I furtherexplore ways to strengthen conversation between co-located couples by in-troducing a smartphone agent which is designed to interact with humans- like a h…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2023-02
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0422470
language: eng
degree discipline: Computer Science
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Hasan, Mohammad Khalad
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/83383