DIGITAL DETOX BY SHUT CLINIC

About:

• The Service for Healthy Use of Technology (SHUT) clinic at NIMHANS has developed a Digital Detox app that has been effective in bringing about behavioural changes among users.
  
  
• The app, available on Google Play store as ‘Digital Detox by Shut Clinic’, requires user to register. After this, it tracks your pattern of mobile usage every week and offers self-help strategies.
  
  
• The app asks users to specify their addiction-related symptoms, such as sleep disturbance, eye strain, loneliness, boredom, or excess Facebook usage.
  
  
• The app developers have followed the principle that technology de-addition should be supportive, encouraging and fun.