# Research from Professor Adam Alter examining how children use technology is cited

1 Faculty News August 17, 2020 ![Toronto Star logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032178.jpg?itok=EkYX5hFm)>

Excerpt from [The Toronto Star](https://www.thestar.com/life/parent/2020/08/17/book-excerpt-in-this-age-of-digital-disruption-we-need-to-steer-our-kids-towards-healthy-screen-time.html) -- "Most teenagers are checking their phones 150 times per day—that is, once every six minutes. Add it all up and they’re spending more than seven hours a day looking at their smartphones—and that’s outside of school or homework! As New York University marketing professor [Adam Alter](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/adam-alter) points out, this means that over the course of their lives our kids are going to spend at least seven years immersed in their phones."

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