Techoference : Do You Suffer From It?

Feel tired despite going to bed at time? Get distracted with the alert sounds of your phone while you are eating lunch or dinner? Have the urge to keep checking different apps on your phone even when you have other work to do? Maybe these are all symptoms of Techoference. This is a new term coined by scientists to describe the interference of mobile phones in daily life activities.

At the Queensland University of Technology a study was conducted to determine the increase in the problematic use of mobile phones in Australia. The results of which were published in the science journal Frontiers. 709 mobile phone users were studied in the age group of 18 to 83 years. The findings were that 24% women and 15% men were problematic mobile phone users.

40.9% of the age group of 18 to 24 years and 23.5% of those in the age group 25 to 29 years were found to be suffering from Techoference. The survey system was used to collect data from the group. Survey was first conducted in 2005 and then replicated in 2018. The scientific study found that the number of people suffering from Techoference seems to have increased by 17.2% in these years. Female participants noted a larger decline in their productivity than the males.