Development of an App to Support Self-monitoring Smartphone Usage and Healthcare Behaviors in Daily Life

Smart communication devices bring convenience to life, work, and entertainment, but they also cause overuse addiction. On the other hand, the highly intense workload and tense lifestyle have made people tremendously stressful, thereby possibly leading to health condition issues. This study focuses on those APP's or games that mostly make people addicted. Through this development effort, a new software APP capable of self-discipline and self-improvement can be accomplished and formulated to provide alerting and reminding information based on device usage statistical data. On the other hand, another focus of this APP is to help users to use smart devices more appropriately and pursue long term healthy life; particularly for people who work long hours, they need this APP to help themselves and look after themselves. In order to visualize the result of both addiction improvement and healthy habit development, a plant-rising game is implemented in smart devices to make users motivated to adopt it and use it in their daily lives.