Thank you for your interest in the Reduce Digital Distraction workshop! The workshop is an evidence-based and effective way to take control over your digital device use.
If you are curious about the research behind it, have a look at the research section of our website.
On this page, you can read about what happens in a workshop and how (if you opt-in) we use anonymized data to contribute to digital wellbeing research.
Psychotherapist &
mental health consultant
Former Deputy Head of Counselling at the University of Oxford
Computer scientist &
cognitive psychologist
Research Fellow at the University of Oxford
At the end of the workshop, you can opt-in to allow anonymised information to be used to contribute to research on digital wellbeing.
We anonymise text data by removing or changing any information that could identify you. We don't store any permanent link between your personal identity and the research data. The survey data are stored on our secure server in Frankfurt (hosted with Digital Ocean). All research data and records will be stored for at least 3 years.
Information from the workshop helps us improve it, for the benefit of future participants. It may also contribute to human-computer interaction research, and be published in venues such as the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (see our latest research for an example).
If a person is ever considered to have suffered harm through participation in research, the University of Oxford has arrangements in place to provide for compensation. If you have a concern about any aspect of this project, please contact Dr Ulrik Lyngs, who will do his best to answer your query. If you remain unhappy or wish to make a formal complaint, you may contact the University of Oxford’s Departmental Research Ethics Committee on ethics@cs.ox.ac.uk.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss the workshop further, please contact:
Dr Ulrik Lyngs
Co-founder of the Reduce Digital Distraction Project
Email: ulrik@redd-project.org / ulrik.lyngs@linacre.ox.ac.uk
Tel.: +45 31 62 05 51