Researchers want to examine how adolescents and others use their phones to nearly the second; ‘The phone really is this mirror’
To get a window into what teens are seeing and doing, and in what order, the Stanford researchers are installing software on participants’ phones and taking screenshots of their usage every five seconds. This kind of granular detail has been rare in past studies on screen time, which relied on self-reporting or broad categories.
One of the early findings from the Screenome Project shows how fragmented media consumption has become: People jump between apps and websites on an average of every 10 seconds.
...For instance, if media-consumption patterns associated with alcohol or tobacco use are established, researchers could run experiments where they limit exposure to such content on their smartphones to see how that affects their offline behavior, Dr. Robinson said.
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