Digital White Spaces: A Cyberpsychology-Informed Framework to Mobile Phone Addiction

Computer Science > Cryptography and Security [Submitted on 7 Jun 2026] Digital White Spaces: A Cyberpsychology-Informed Framework to Mobile Phone Addiction Leandros Maglaras, Helge Janicke, Konstantinos Karantzalos Mobile-phone overuse and attention fragmentation have become pressing societal and public-health concerns. Cyberpsychology research highlights addictive engagement loops driven by intermittent rewards, persuasive design, and habit formation. In this editorial I synthesize current evidence on mobile-phone addiction and propose "Digital White Spaces" (DWS), a socio-technical framework that combines privacy-preserving monitoring, AI-driven detection of addictive loops, device-mode interventions, and physical signal-limited zones to restore cognitive autonomy. Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) Cite as: arXiv:2606.08472 [cs.CR]   (or arXiv:2606.08472v1 [cs.CR] for this version)   https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.08472 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Leandros Maglaras A [view email] [v1] Sun, 7 Jun 2026 06:33:32 UTC (7,187 KB) Access Paper: HTML (experimental) view license Current browse context: cs.CR < prev   |   next > new | recent | 2026-06 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Export BibTeX Citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)