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simplify your digital life,
break free from addictive designs,
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the Reduce Digital Distraction Workshop

There are hundreds of digital focus tools & notification settings to help you get the digital life you want.
The ReDD Workshop makes it effortless to find and implement the right ones for you.

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1,500+

university & high school students & staff served since 2019

58%

For students & academics, knowledge workers, and parents.

PRACTICAL SUPPORT

Includes everything you need to change your digital life

The ReDD Workshop makes it easy to achieve the digital life you want, thanks to letters from your past self, hands-on support in our Help! Café, and data-driven insights into your personal journey.

“Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is specifically your own” — Bruce Lee

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Letters from your past self
Hands-on support
Data-driven insights

Letters from your past self

Hands-on support

Data-driven insights

RESEARCH-POWERED

Based on our award-winning research in computer science & behaviour change

The strategies you learn in the ReDD Workshop are based on our analyses of 550+ digital focus tools, 54,000+ user reviews, and 250+ interviews.
The workshop format is based on continuous learning from 180+ workshops at 10+ universities & high schools, and best practices in behaviour change.

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How to access ReDD

ReDD Workshop

For individuals

Join our next public workshop.

Equip yourself with the skills you need to manage digital distraction.

  • checkmark2-hour workshop: In-person or online, including hands-on support + Q&A
  • checkmarkNote to Future Me: Personal reminders of what you decide to try, to keep you on track
  • checkmarkHelp! Café: Access to our bi-weekly hands-on support
  • checkmarkDigital thriving report: Helps you identify what works & stay motivated
  • checkmarkSatisfaction guarantee: If you do not find the workshop useful, we will provide you a full refund
ReDD Workshop

For schools, universities, & organisations

Have us deliver the workshop at your institution.

FACILITATOR
COURSE

ReDD Workshop

For schools, universities, & organisations

Run ReDD Workshops yourself via our 2-day facilitator training.

Research

The science behind ReDD

The ReDD Workshop is based on our decade of academic research into the psychology of digital distraction and how digital focus tools can help. Some key papers are shown below. For a more complete picture, see Dr Ulrik Lyngs‘ website.

Key papers

"I finally felt I had the tools to control these urges": Empowering Students to Achieve Their Device Use Goals With the Reduce Digital Distraction Workshop

May 2024 | ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Best paper honourable mention (top 5%)

Ulrik Lyngs, Kai Lukoff, Petr Slovak, Michael Inzlicht, Maureen Freed, Hannah Andrews, Claudine Tinsman, Laura Csuka, Lize Alberts, Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello, Guido Makransky, Kasper Hornbæk, Max Van Kleek, Nigel Shadbolt

SwitchTube: A Proof-of-Concept System Introducing 'Adaptable Commitment Interfaces' as a Tool for Digital Wellbeing

Apr 2023 | ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Best paper honourable mention (top 5%)

Kai Lukoff, Ulrik Lyngs, Himanshu Zade, Vera Liao, James Choi, Kaiyue Fan, Sean Munson, Alexis Hiniker

Self-Control in Cyberspace: Applying Dual Systems Theory to a Review of Digital Self-Control Tools

May 2019 | ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Best paper honourable mention (top 5%)

Ulrik Lyngs, Kai Lukoff, Petr Slovak, Reuben Binns, Adam Slack, Michael Inzlicht, Max Van Kleek, Nigel Shadbolt

The Goldilocks Level of Support: Using User Reviews, Ratings, and Installation Numbers to Investigate Digital Self-Control Tools

Oct 2022 | International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

Ulrik Lyngs, Kai Lukoff, Laura Csuka, Petr Slovak, Max Van Kleek, Nigel Shadbolt

"I Just Want to Hack Myself to Not Get Distracted": Evaluating Design Interventions for Self-Control on Facebook

Apr 2020 | ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Ulrik Lyngs, Kai Lukoff, Petr Slovak, William Seymour, Helena Webb, Marina Jirotka, Jun Zhao, Max Van Kleek, Nigel Shadbolt

News

Oct 2024 | Conference

We presented our work on the ReDD workshop in Danish high schools at the NordiCHI conference

Oct 2024 | Research talk

Dr Ulrik Lyngs gave a talk about our work to Amy Orben’s Digital Mental Health group at the University of Cambridge

Jun 2024 | Impact Award

Dr Ulrik Lyngs won Oxford University‘s MPLS Early Career Social Impact Award for our work on the ReDD workshop

May 2023 | Research grant

UKRI‘s Impact Acceleration Account research grant awarded to Sir Nigel Shadbolt & Dr Ulrik Lyngs to enable UK-wide impact of the ReDD workshop

Press & Media

Oct 2024 | Podcast (Danish)

Dr Ulrik Lyngs was on the Brainstorm podcast by videnskab.dk, Hvorfor har jeg så svært ved at lægge min mobil væk? (Why do I have such a hard time putting away my phone?).

Mar 2024 | Podcast

Dr Ulrik Lyngs was on episode #8 of the Mokhm Singh Show.

Nov 2023 | Interview

Dr Ulrik Lyngs interviewed by the Canadian magazine Healthy Debate for the article ‘“Everything is at stake here”: Startups aim to break addictions to social media’.

May 2023 | Interview

Dr Ulrik Lyngs interviewed by Danish newspaper Jyllandsposten for the article “Fem digitale tricks, der hjælper dig med at få styr på dit digitale liv” (Five digital tricks that help you get your digital life sorted).

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Team

Founders

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Maureen Freed

Psychotherapist &
mental health consultant

Former Deputy Head of Counselling at the University of Oxford

Dr Ulrik Lyngs

Computer scientist &
cognitive psychologist

Research Fellow at the University of Oxford

Advisors & Collaborators

Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt, FRS FREng FBCS
Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt, FRS FREng FBCS

Head of the Human Centred Computing group, University of Oxford

Dr Kai Lukoff
Dr Kai Lukoff

Head of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Santa Clara University

Dr Petr Slovak
Dr Petr Slovak

UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the Department of Informatics, King’s College London

Professor Kasper Hornbæk
Professor Kasper Hornbæk

Human-Centred Computing Section, University of Copenhagen

Dr Konrad Kollnig
Dr Konrad Kollnig

Leader of the RegTech4AI project at Maastricht University's Law & Tech Lab

Hayoun Noh
Hayoun Noh

PhD candidate, University of Oxford & research affiliate at MIT Media Lab

Stuart Coleman
Stuart Coleman

Director of Learning and Consultancy at the Open Data Institute

Thomas Şerban von Davier
Thomas Şerban von Davier

Human-Centered AI Research Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute