Cell Phone Experiment

Cell Phone Experiment

Who: College Students
What: Cell Phone Removal
When: two Classes
Where: two different Classrooms
Why: Mental Analysis of Cell phones

College students rely very much on their digital devices to keep them connected with the world. None of those devices is more important than the cell phone’s they have with them 24 hours a day. We will be conducting an experiment in which, we will have two separate classrooms, one room the students are allowed to keep their cell phones for one hour and the other room the students get their cell phones taken away from them for one hour. After the rooms are divided up into the control group and the experimental group, we will take each of the student’s numbers in order to call them later on. After the numbers have been acquired each of their cell phones will be placed in front of the room, where they can see them and know that it is there cell phone ringing, when we call each of the cell phones from another room. There will be multiple cameras placed in both the rooms to record each of the student’s reactions as their phone rings.

As time goes on in the classrooms we expect the control group room to be very happy and satisfied and the experimental group to be very upset and frustrated. Overall, most students will find the situation very uncomfortable. At the end of the class period, we will ask both groups of students to answer a few questions describing how they felt during the experiment.
After seeing how the students answered the questions, we would see the different responses between the students, who got to keep their cell phones as oppose to students, who got their cell phones taken away. The results should indicate that students, who got to keep their cell phones, will be much happier than the students their cell phones taken away.