Screen Addiction of Kids IDUS 755 - Directed Studies in Industrial Design I: Research Ziyan Zhao Professor: Joel Wittkamp
What is
Screen Addiction Our brain’s struggle to control ourselves. People can’t help using their digital devices with screen such as mobile phones, PCs, laptops, tablets and game stations…
92% two-year olds in the United States of America have an online record because parents have been socializing their children
Situation
1-2 years old Infants are get their first “digital device� and learning how to use it
Situation
When they get older
How to play when going to the bathroom
Situation
How to play when driving cars
One Third Pre-k aged children in the United States owe the tablets not a toy but a full-featured tablet
Situation
6 hours the average 8 to 10-year-old was spending per day using media
Situation
4700%
10%
1 in 10
When Kids Are Home From School, Pornography Searches Increase
The 10-and-under age group now accounts for the visitors to porn video sites
fear that they're addicted to porn
Situation
Physiology insults Grey Matter The white matter loses the density while the grey matter lose the weight
Influence the information transfer in the brain and the process of emotion and information.
Harm
White Matter
About Growth • Poor social skills
• Poor sleep condition and school performance
• Have difficulty transferring new learning from a 2D representation to a 3D object • Correlated with poor cognitive and mental-health outcomes such as depression and anxiety
Harm
have difficulty transferring new learning from a 2D representation to a 3D object
Poor school performance depression and anxiety correlated with poor cognitive and mental-health outcomes.
Poor sleep
Reasons Dopamine gets released when we view interesting feed, have successful social interactions, playing video games. When addicted to the screen, we spend more time and raise the threshold of happiness. Also, the screen addiction will influence the ability to concentration.
Biological
Reasons
Psychological 2 Recognition by the public. anxiety 1 Depression, and poor face-to-face communication skills
4 Part of extended self.
need of produce 3 The and socializing.
there� is more 5 “Out interesting than the daily here-and-now.
What do parents do? • Limit time & Monitor • Reward or punishment • Send them to some outdoor wilderness programs
Attitude
Different Views Teenagers use messaging apps to stay in touch with friends and make social plans Interactive media that involve contingent responses from an adult can help children retain taught information. E-book’s sound effects and animation can interfere with story comprehension and event sequencing in preschoolers,
Quality content can enhance social and language skills for all children aged 2 years and older, particularly for children living in poverty or who are otherwise disadvantaged
Appropriately used, screen time can calm a child who is overexcited or distressed Video games are developed into the therapy of diseases such as ADHD and Autism
Attitude