Research, tools, and talks for digital wellbeing
I am co-founder of the Centre for Digital Habits, where we help people redesign their digital life to serve their goals & needs.
I am also Research Fellow at Linacre College, and research representative on Denmark's Media Council for Children and Youth.
Previously, I was a festival producer at HowTheLightGetsIn. When I don't think about digital distraction, I play various instruments in my live karaoke band.
Public speaking
→I give talks and workshops about digital wellbeing and AI at universities, schools, and organisations.
Research
→I have done a decade of research on why we get distracted on digital devices, and what to do about it.
Digital tools
→I build apps and browser extensions that help people focus, do open and transparent research, and to have fun!
01 — Speaking
Talks & workshops on digital wellbeing and AI
I help individuals and organisations improve their relationship with digital devices, and build with AI, through talks and keynotes, workshops, and practical tool demos grounded in HCI research.
Example talk
Attention, Freedom, Digital Addiction and Dating Apps
Barnes Philosophy Club, London · 2023
02 — Research
Designing to support digital self-control
Hundreds of apps and browser extensions promise to help us control our time and attention on digital devices. I've studied this landscape since 2015 to figure out what good design looks like, and to test what actually works.
Selected papers
Best paper honourable mention (top 5%)03 — Toolbox
Things I've built
Digital focus tools
With the Centre for Digital Habits I build practical tools for making it easier to control your time and attention when using digital devices. Give them a try!
Focus
Our browser extension and app to eliminate addictive features with one click (feeds, Shorts, Reels, …).
Blocker
Our intuitive tool for blocking distracting apps and websites on your computer or phone when you need to focus.
To-Do
Our simple to-do app that keeps your current task visible while you work. Especially helpful for those of us with ADHD.
Transparent & reproducible research
oxforddown
I wrote my PhD thesis as a reproducible R Markdown document with a traditional Oxford LaTeX template, then open-sourced the materials. Hundreds of students have used it since.
pagedownCV
Keeping an academic CV updated is tedious. These R Markdown templates generate CVs in different formats from entries kept in a spreadsheet.
Personal
Karaoke Collective Songbook
The songbook framework I built for my live karaoke band — drunk-person-proof design for the gigging musician...
Lyngs quiz
A quiz app that includes all the question formats I personally find most fun. I use it often for tailor-made quizzes with friends.
