Research, tools, and talks for digital wellbeing
I am co-founder of the Centre for Digital Habits, which helps 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.
When I don't think about digital distraction, I play various instruments in The Karaoke Collective. Previously, I was a festival producer at HowTheLightGetsIn.
Hear me speak
→Talks and workshops on digital wellbeing and AI for universities, schools, and organisations.
Read the research
→My research on why we get distracted on our devices, and what actually helps.
Use the tools
→ReDD Focus, Blocker, To-Do, Phone-Free 2FA, and more open-source tools you can use today.
01 — Speaking
Talks & workshops on digital wellbeing and AI
I help individuals and organisations redesign 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
400+
workshops and talks
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!
ReDD Focus
Our browser extension and app to eliminate addictive features with one click (feeds, Shorts, Reels, …).
ReDD Blocker
Our intuitive tool for blocking distracting apps and websites on your computer or phone when you need to focus.
ReDD To-Do
Our simple to-do app that keeps your current task visible while you work. Especially helpful for those of us with ADHD.
Personal
Karaoke Collective Songbook
The songbook framework I built for my live karaoke band — drunk-person-proof design for gigging musicians...
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.
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.
