Digital Wellbeing
Investigating how technology affects habits, wellbeing, and self-control through empirical research on digital self-control tools, multi-device interactions, and educational approaches. My work focuses on understanding habitual smartphone use, developing effective self-control mechanisms, and creating educational systems that promote healthier technology relationships.
Digital Self‑Control Tools
Evaluating and designing mechanisms like blocking, nudging, and goal setting that help people align technology use with their values and wellbeing goals.
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Habitual Behaviors
Understanding and analyzing habitual smartphone use patterns, developing tools to help users break unhealthy digital habits, and creating interventions for meaningful behavior change.
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Educational Systems
Creating educational frameworks and curricula that teach mindful human-computer interaction, digital wellbeing principles, and responsible technology design practices.
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Related Publications
Intelligent Support for Digital Wellbeing: a Design Framework through a Systematic Literature Review
Luca Scibetta; Massimiliano Pellegrino; Alberto Monge Roffarello; Luigi De Russis, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER STUDIES
From Digital Self-Control Apps to iOS Shortcuts: Enabling Privacy-Centric Wellbeing Research Without Code
Aditya Kumar Purohit; Alberto Monge Roffarello, LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-95452-8_14
Empowering End Users to Design for Their Digital Self-Control
Alberto Monge Roffarello; Luigi De Russis, LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-95452-8_15
Bridging Digital Wellbeing and Accessibility: An Analysis of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Robert Everett Schwartz; Alberto Monge Roffarello; Luigi De Russis, Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Trigger-action Programming for Wellbeing: Insights from 6,590 iOS Shortcuts
Alberto Monge Roffarello; Aditya Kumar Purohit; Satyam V Purohit, IEEE PERVASIVE COMPUTING
DOI: 10.1109/MPRV.2024.3416698
Exploring Trigger-Action Programs for Designing Self-Control Tools in Mobile Devices
Mattia Chiarle; Alberto Monge Roffarello; Debaleena Chattopadhyay, MobileHCI '24: 26th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction
Digital Wellbeing for Teens: Designing Educational Systems (DIGI-Teens 2024)
Chiara Ceccarini; Catia Prandi; Alberto Monge Roffarello; Luigi De Russis, the 2024 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '24)
Achieving Digital Wellbeing Through Digital Self-Control Tools: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Alberto Monge Roffarello; Luigi DE RUSSIS, ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-HUMAN INTERACTION
DOI: 10.1145/3571810
Teaching and Learning "Digital Wellbeing"
Alberto Monge Roffarello; Luigi De Russis, FUTURE GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEMS
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2023.08.003
Understanding digital wellbeing within complex technological contexts
Alberto Monge Roffarello; Luigi De Russis; Danielle Lottridge; Marta E. Cecchinato, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER STUDIES
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2023.103034
Nudging Users or Redesigning Interfaces? Evaluating Novel Strategies for Digital Wellbeing Through inControl
Alberto Monge Roffarello; Luigi De Russis, ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT '23)
Designing for Meaningful Interactions and Digital Wellbeing
Alberto Monge Roffarello; Luigi De Russis; R. X. Schwartz; Panagiotis Apostolellis, the 2022 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
Towards Multi-Device Digital Self-Control Tools
Alberto Monge Roffarello; Luigi De Russis, Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-85610-6_8
Coping with Digital Wellbeing in a Multi-Device World
Alberto Monge Roffarello; Luigi De Russis, Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Reducing Risk in Digital Self-Control Tools: Design Patterns and Prototype
R. X. Schwartz; Alberto MONGE ROFFARELLO; Luigi DE RUSSIS; Panagiotis Apostolellis, Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Designing Technology That Promotes Users' Digital Wellbeing
Alberto Monge Roffarello; Luigi De Russis, CROSSROADS
DOI: 10.1145/3481823
The Race Towards Digital Wellbeing: Issues and Opportunities
Alberto Monge Roffarello; Luigi De Russis, Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems