Reconfiguring the Smartphone to Support Intentional Use

This paper explores how the smartphone's form could be designed to help users establish more intentional usage patterns. A research through design approach that was based in design fiction principles resulted in three design proposals and scenarios, the Planning Phone, the Parasite Phone, and the Placeful Phone. These were evaluated in a focus group and analysed to develop a deeper understanding of how design researchers and developers can use ideas of authorship, barriers and norms to support intentional smartphone use.