Procrastination on Social Networks: Types and Triggers

Authors: Alblwi, A., Stefanidis, A., Phalp, K. and Ali, R.

Journal: BESC 2019 - 6th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-Cultural Computing, Proceedings

ISBN: 9781728147628

DOI: 10.1109/BESC48373.2019.8963036

Abstract:

Procrastination refers to a voluntary delay of a needed or committed task that might hurt productivity and wellbeing requirements such as self-acceptance, personal growth and positive relations with others. People might procrastinate due to a lack of motivation towards performing a task or a mismatch between the task and their skills. Social Networks Sites (SNS) are designed to provide users with the opportunity to socialise and feel relatedness despite being physically separated. SNSs design is typically equipped with a rich set of persuasive tools to encourage more social interaction. Such tools can entice procrastination when users have low self-regulation ability, and seek avoidance and mood modification. As a first step in designing persuasive features which would help people control their procrastination, there is a need to understand how existing SNS features persuade procrastination in the first place. In this paper, we conduct a multi-stage qualitative study to explore the occurrence of procrastination and the prominent features of SNS design that trigger and facilitate it. We use focus groups to explore SNS procrastination, and then get a more ecologically valid, detailed and in-context data via a ten days' diary study followed by clarification interviews. The findings shed light on prominent types of procrastination and features in SNS design that can persuade and increase, in certain contexts, the chance for procrastination.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/32659/

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Procrastination on Social Networks: Types and Triggers

Authors: Alblwi, A., Stefanidis, A., Phalp, K. and Ali, R.

Journal: 2019 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BEHAVIORAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIO-CULTURAL COMPUTING (BESC 2019)

DOI: 10.1109/besc48373.2019.8963036

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/32659/

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Procrastination on Social Networks: Types and Triggers

Authors: Alblwi, A., Stefanidis, A., Phalp, K. and Ali, R.

Conference: The 6th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC'19). IEEE. 28-30th, October 2019.

Dates: 28-30 October 2019

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/32659/

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Procrastination on Social Networks: Types and Triggers.

Authors: Alblwi, A., Stefanidis, A., Phalp, K. and Ali, R.

Journal: BESC

Pages: 1-7

Publisher: IEEE

ISBN: 978-1-7281-4762-8

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/32659/

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Procrastination on Social Networks: Types and Triggers

Authors: Alblwi, A., Stefanidis, A., Phalp, K.T. and Ali, R.

Conference: BESC 2019: The 6th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing

Publisher: IEEE

Abstract:

Procrastination refers to a voluntary delay of a needed or committed task that might hurt productivity and wellbeing requirements such as self-acceptance, personal growth and positive relations with others. People might procrastinate due to a lack of motivation towards performing a task or a mismatch between the task and their skills. Social Networks Sites (SNS) are designed to provide users with the opportunity to socialise and feel relatedness despite being physically separated. SNSs design is typically equipped with a rich set of persuasive tools to encourage more social interaction. Such tools can entice procrastination when users have low self-regulation ability, and seek avoidance and mood modification. As a first step in designing persuasive features which would help people control their procrastination, there is a need to understand how existing SNS features persuade procrastination in the first place. In this paper, we conduct a multi-stage qualitative study to explore the occurrence of procrastination and the prominent features of SNS design that trigger and facilitate it. We use focus groups to explore SNS procrastination, and then get a more ecologically valid, detailed and in-context data via a ten days’ diary study followed by clarification interviews. The findings shed light on prominent types of procrastination and features in SNS design that can persuade and increase, in certain contexts, the chance for procrastination.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/32659/

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