Matteo Vincenzo Petrera
Unhooked From the Smartphone: Leveraging Large Language Models to Detect Attention Traps.
Rel. Alberto Monge Roffarello, Andrea Sillano. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Informatica (Computer Engineering), 2026
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Abstract
The rapid di!usion of short-form video platforms has intensified highly immersive interaction patterns, often leading to excessive and unintentional consumption behaviors commonly referred to as doomscrolling. Despite growing concern about its psychological and behavioral impact, limited research has focused on its real-time detection through objective behavioral data. This thesis presents the design and experimental validation of a mobile applica- tion for the detection of doomscrolling behavior on the most widely used short-video platform, namely TikTok. The system uses Android Accessibility Services to collect processed interaction data, including scroll velocity, content skipping rate, interaction frequency, watch time, and session duration. A set of behavioral metrics was defined to model user activity and compute personalized detection thresholds.
A longitudinal study was conducted in two phases: a warm-up phase for baseline profiling and threshold computation, followed by a detection phase in which thresh- olds defined by the LLM are used to capture doomscrolling behavior, progressively adapting to new user habits
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