Advancing Inclusive Digital Well-Being Tools: How Neurodivergent Students Use Distraction Blockers
Marvel Chrismatheo Hariadi, Kevin Chow, Joanna McGrenere · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)
This CHI 2026 paper asks whether digital distraction blockers — Apple Screen Time, Forest, Freedom, StayFocusd, and similar tools — actually serve the neurodivergent post-secondary students who are arguably their most marginal audience, or whether blocker design silently…
neurodivergence · ADHD · autism spectrum disorder · generalized anxiety disorder · distraction blockers