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    Reducing academic procrastination: Designing an artifact to aid students

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    Researching Procrastination on Social Networking Sites

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    Procrastination has become an important field in academic research. It refers to a voluntary delay that might lead to negative consequences such as low academic performance, low work productivity, and anxiety. Numerous studies have examined the factors that might lead people to procrastinate, such as low self-efficacy, low self-regulation, and low self-esteem. However, Social networking sites (SNSs) might be partially responsible for people procrastinating because users may stay online rather than performing their urgent tasks. SNS users have increased significantly in recent years, and this raises the question of whether the design of SNS features has contributed to users procrastinating and why this is the case? The research studies the relationship between SNS feature design and procrastination and also identify what features of SNSs might be able to predict the likelihood of user procrastination. Furthermore, we identified different countermeasures that can be introduced to the future design of SNS in order to combat procrastination. Then, the research develops a method that helps users to gain more control over their procrastination. This method is informed by psychological theories, interactive design, and usability evaluation and testing. The method can be used to inform software engineers when developing the design features for future software in order to help users to gain more control over their procrastination. To achieve this goal, several studies were conducted with SNS users. These studies include focus group, diary study, co-design, and online questionnaire. The results of these studies will guide the research to devise the final method of the research. The final method will be supported by persuasive techniques in order to help users to change their behaviour and gain more control over their procrastination without forcing them to change. In the following sub-sections we explained the procedures and provided the supplementary materials that we used in each study

    Self-Control in Cyberspace: Applying Dual Systems Theory to a Review of Digital Self-Control Tools

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    Many people struggle to control their use of digital devices. However, our understanding of the design mechanisms that support user self-control remains limited. In this paper, we make two contributions to HCI research in this space: first, we analyse 367 apps and browser extensions from the Google Play, Chrome Web, and Apple App stores to identify common core design features and intervention strategies afforded by current tools for digital self-control. Second, we adapt and apply an integrative dual systems model of self-regulation as a framework for organising and evaluating the design features found. Our analysis aims to help the design of better tools in two ways: (i) by identifying how, through a well-established model of self-regulation, current tools overlap and differ in how they support self-control; and (ii) by using the model to reveal underexplored cognitive mechanisms that could aid the design of new tools.Comment: 11.5 pages (excl. references), 6 figures, 1 tabl

    Procrastination on social networking sites: types, triggers, and socio-technical countermeasures.

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    Procrastination has become an important field in academic research and refers to a voluntary delay in performing tasks that need to be done. Procrastination can lead to negative consequences such as low academic performance, low work productivity and anxiety. Numerous studies have examined the factors that may lead people to procrastinate, such as low self-efficacy, low self-regulation and low self-esteem. Social networking sites (SNSs) may facilitate procrastination; for example, notifications could be a distraction that promotes procrastination for people, preventing them from performing their original tasks. This Thesis aims to understand how procrastination on SNS occurs, the role of SNS design in triggering it and how to engineer social media to combat it through existing and novel features. Then, this knowledge will be used to develop a method to combat procrastination on SNS. This method will be informed by psychological theories as well as technical and socio-technical countermeasures. To achieve this goal, a mixed methods approach was conducted with SNS users, including focus groups and diary studies, co-design sessions and surveys. The results of these studies helped to develop a method that helps users to gain more control over their procrastination on SNS. The developed method is supported by persuasive techniques including reminders and suggestions, which help to persuade users to change their usage style without forcing them toward the change. Finally, the developed method was evaluated with SNS users who self-declared as procrastinators on SNS. The evaluation study examines five aspects: clarity, procrastination awareness, coverage, effectiveness and acceptance. The results demonstrated that the combating procrastination on SNS method (D-Crastinate) helps to improve users’ control over their procrastination

    Aiki - Turning Online Procrastination into Microlearning

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    Business plan: Step

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    This project has the goal of creating a business plan to verify the economic viability of the creation of a blockchain-based social media platform that helps users to combat procrastination on diverse activities. Procrastination has been a part of human existence for centuries and it happens mainly because we want to avoid negative moods. With the emergence of new technologies, a case can be made that this phenomenon has increased as we have millions of contents to choose from, that we can access in a very easy way, as all we have to do is reach in our pockets and unlock our smartphones. Decision paralysis, no social pressure, uncertainty of what to do are just some of the reasons that lead us to procrastinate. Step will be the social media platform that contributes to its user’s awareness of long-term procrastination effects and that helps them tackle it using positive reinforcement methods such as a token economy. In this paper, you will find: A thorough research of the literature on these topics; An explanation of the method used to validate the business idea; A contextual analysis to the companies’ environment and its industry; A brief explanation of how the social media platform will be structured and on its business model; An internal and competitive analysis; An implementation plan on Marketing and Operations. To finalize, a financial analysis will be done to check the viability of the project within its first 5 years of activity.Este projeto tem o objetivo de criar um plano de negócios para verificar a viabilidade econômica da criação de uma rede social baseada em blockchain que ajude os seus usuários a combater a procrastinação em diversas atividades. A procrastinação tem feito parte da existência humana há séculos e acontece principalmente porque queremos evitar humores negativos. Com o surgimento de novas tecnologias, pode-se comprovar que este fenômeno se intensificou, pois temos milhões de conteúdos à sua escolha, aos quais podemos aceder de uma forma muito fácil, pois basta desbloquear os nossos smartphones. Paralisia de decisão, ausência de pressão social e incerteza do que fazer são apenas alguns dos motivos que nos levam a procrastinar. A Step será uma rede social que contribui para a consciencialização do usuário sobre os efeitos da procrastinação de longo prazo e que os ajuda a enfrentá-la usando métodos de reforço positivo, como a economia de tokens. Neste artigo, irá encontrar: Uma pesquisa completa da literatura sobre todos estes diferentes tópicos; Uma explicação do método usado para validar a ideia de negócio; Uma análise contextual do ambiente da empresa e da sua indústria; Uma breve explicação de como a rede social será estruturada e o seu modelo de negócios; Uma análise interna e competitiva; Um plano de implementação em Marketing e Operações e, para finalizar, será feita uma análise financeira para verificar a viabilidade do projeto nos primeiros 5 anos de atividade

    Academic Procrastination in College Students

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    Academic procrastination has become a prevalent issue facing students, especially college-aged students. There is a large body of research investigating the reasons behind academic procrastination and why it continues to be a growing problem for students. Researchers want to understand why procrastination affects most college students when it is associated with many long-term negative implications. Following this problem, there have been several studies conducted in hopes of finding a solution to help students procrastinate less. While there has been research about possible treatment options, there has been a lack of research specifically targeting the important predictors of procrastination. In this study, we took data from 239 students from a large, private Christian university in Virginia. We conducted bivariate correlations and a multiple regression analysis between procrastination and “self” related variables such as self-efficacy, self-esteem, self-regulation, and self-forgiveness to assess which variables have the strongest correlation with procrastination to better create treatment plans. The findings of the study indicate that self-regulation had the strongest, unique inverse relationship with procrastination which can help future researchers specifically target that variable when creating treatment plans

    Procrastination on Social Networks: Triggers and Countermeasures

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    Procrastination on social networking sites (SNS) can impact academic performance and user’s well-being. SNSs embed features that encourage users to be always connected and updated, e.g., the notification features. Such persuasive features can exploit peer pressure as well and lead users to believe they are expected to interact immediately, especially for those who may have less impulse control and seek for relatedness and popularity. We argue that SNS can be built to host countermeasures for such behavior and help people regulate their usage and preoccupation about it better. In this paper, we presented a mixed-method study including a qualitative (i.e., focus groups, diary, interviews, and co-design) and a quantitative phase (i.e., a survey) with 334 participants. Through the qualitative phase, we identified: (1) features of an SNS seen by participants as facilitators for procrastination, e.g., notification, immersive design, and surveillance of presence, and (2) countermeasures, such as reminders, chat timer, and goal setting, can be facilitated via SNS design to combat procrastination, and (3) a pairing between the features and the countermeasures. We then (4) confirmed these results and the pairing through the survey phase. Our study showed that countermeasures could be implemented to be universal across all SNS on one or even more device

    Pomodoro Technique for time management

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    Pomodoro means tomato in Italian, but for time management it refers to a technique developed by Francesco Cirillo in the 1980s and re-discovered by today\u27s project managers

    Procrastination, Deadlines, and Statutes of Limitation

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    Statutes of limitation are deadlines. Although psychologists have discovered a great deal about how people respond to deadlines during the past thirty years, the basic structure of statutes of limitation has not changed since at least 1623. This Article explores the question of whether the received model of statutes of limitation remains optimal in light of what we now know about procrastination, the planning fallacy, loss aversion, intertemporal discounting, the student syndrome, and other features of human cognition. It concludes by suggesting a more modern approach to statutes of limitation that is based on a better understanding of how people actually behave. Specifically, the archaic all-or-nothing approach should be abandoned in favor of a more modern, incremental approach that gradually decreases the value of untimely claims as the duration of the plaintiff\u27s delay in filing increases
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