Stress Blocks

How does your smartphone affect your stress level?


Smartphones have infiltrated every part of our lives. As part of a research project at the University of Stuttgart, we want to find out how smartphone usage affects people’s stress levels.
By playing this game, you can help us collect important information regarding the connection of stress and smartphone usage.


Play a classic block puzzle game :
- Fill rows to receive points
- Each notification you receive becomes a block in the game
- Blocks give more points if they are notifications!
- But more notifications == blocks drop faster
- Get the highscore and become first on the scoreboard


Reflect on your own stress level during the day:
- A few times each day you can quickly report your current stress level
- You can also fill out a comprehensive survey to reflect on your current wellbeing
- If you don’t like that, you can just keep on playing the game

Your privacy is important
- Secure Transmission: All data is sent securely to the University of Stuttgart
- Anonymity: no data that is stored can be tracked back to you, and no private data like notification content is stored
- Integrity: We promise that all data will be used solely for the purpose of this research project


To conduct our study, we store the following information:
- Notifications: Timestamp, Application, Content Length, Title Length, used Emoticons
- Phone usage: timestamps for locking, unlocking and turning on the screen


Thank you for supporting our project!