What Makes Apps So Addictive?

10/09/2025 19 min Temporada 1 Episodio 213
What Makes Apps So Addictive?

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Let's examine the pervasive nature of addictive design in digital platforms, particularly focusing on Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and freemium games, and their impact on user engagement and well-being, especially among adolescents. Our sources this time are several research papers conducted on this topic:• Design Frictions on Social Media: Balancing Reduced Mindless Scrolling and User Satisfaction ◦ Nicolas Ruiz, Gabriela Molina León, Hendrik Heuer• The Engagement-Prolonging Designs Teens Encounter on Very Large Online Platforms ◦ YIXIN CHEN, YUE FU, ZEYA CHEN, JENNY RADESKY, ALEXIS HINIKER• Addictive Features of Social Media/Messenger Platforms and Freemium Games against the Background of Psychological and Economic Theories ◦ Christian Montag, Bernd Lachmann, Marc Herrlich, Katharina Zweig• Rapid Onset of Pathological Gambling in Machine Gamblers ◦ Robert B. Breen and Mark Zimmerman• Emu: Engagement Modeling for User Studies ◦ Bo-Jhang Ho, Nima Nikzad, Bharathan Balaji, Mani Srivastava Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.