Boredom – Martin's Blog

Are You Prone to be Bored? Your Phone Can Tell

September 11, 2015

This work is a follow-up project on our research on When Attention is not Scarce – Detecting Boredom from Mobile Phone Usage We might think that technology has solved the problem of boredom. More and more devices provide us with an ample source of entertainment at our fingertips. Paradoxically, today we appear to be more […]

Boredom-Triggered Proactive Recommendations

August 20, 2015

Boredom-Triggered Proactive Recommendations from Martin Pielot The business model of many internet-service companies is primarily build around your attention: they offer best-in-class services for free in exchange for the users’ eyeballs, i.e. them paying attention to the contents of the services they offer. They pay for their expenses and generate revenue by selling the attracted […]

When Attention is not Scarce – Detecting Boredom from Mobile Phone Usage (UbiComp ’15)

August 28, 2015

When Attention is not Scarce – Detecting Boredom from Mobile Phone Usage from Martin Pielot In times of information overload, attention has become a limiting factor in the way we consume information. Hence, researchers suggested to treat attention as a scarce resource coined the phrase attention economy. Given that attention is also what pays the bills […]