10 Sep 2011

Smartphone checking

From This Way Up, 1:30 pm on 10 September 2011

Tye Rattenbury works for Intel Labs in Portland, Oregon. He's studying the habit known as 'checking'; that's the repetitive and some would say obsessive checking of the device that smartphone addicts practice.

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