Digital Well-Being

A field of research, design, and consumer technology focused on supporting healthy, intentional relationships between people and their devices. Digital well-being spans screen-time tracking, attention management, notification control, distraction blockers, intentional-use prompts, and broader supports for sleep, mental health, and offline engagement. Accessibility-aware digital well-being design recognizes that cognitive and emotional needs vary widely — neurodivergent users, for example, may benefit from flexible or experience-anchored interventions rather than rigid, neuronormative 'focus vs. distraction' framings — and treats well-being support as a strengths-based scaffold rather than a deficit correction.