{"id":209742,"date":"2020-01-16T23:38:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T15:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1816341\/"},"modified":"2020-01-16T23:38:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T15:38:28","slug":"human-screenome-project-wants-to-record-your-every-digital-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/16\/human-screenome-project-wants-to-record-your-every-digital-move\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Human Screenome Project\u2019 Wants to Record Your Every Digital Move"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Every five seconds that the phone screen is activated, a screenshot is recorded, compressed, encrypted, and transmitted to secure servers at the Human Screenome Project. (Photo Credit: Stanford Screenomics Lab)<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

With increased automation comes increased concerns over digital behaviors<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Does screen time really impair concentration, lead to anxiety and depression, hinder social conduct, and weaken our ability to tell reality from fiction?<\/span><\/p>\n

Researchers at Stanford<\/a> and Penn State<\/a> universities want to find out by recording and analyzing everything people see and do on their phones.<\/span><\/p>\n

Their so-called “Human Screenome Project”<\/a> (a play on the Human Genome Project, aimed at mapping the world’s genes) promises a detailed approach to “observing the complexities of current digital lives.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Our screen time<\/a> is mostly invisible to researchers; studies tend to rely on participants to self-report usage, which is highly inaccurate.<\/span><\/p>\n

But even when time spent on one app or website is measured more accurately via software, the numbers don’t necessarily reflect the various types of content in which folks engage.<\/span><\/p>\n

For instance, one user’s hour on Facebook keeping up with social posts from friends may have very little in common with a neighbor’s hour on Facebook reading political news, or a co-worker’s hour on Facebook stalking and bullying strangers.<\/span><\/p>\n

“No matter what you study, whether it’s politics, addiction, health, relationships, or climate action, if you really want to understand people’s beliefs and behaviors, you really need to look at their ‘screenome,’ because so much of our lives is now filtered through our digital devices,” Stanford medical professor and study co-author Thomas Robinson said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n