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Researchers in the United Kingdom are currently investigating how people use their smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops at work and at home as part of the project "Creativity Greenhouse: Digital Epiphanies.

The U.K.'s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is funding the project.

Mauthner wants to find out whether some are beginning to reduce their screen time and "change the ways in which these technologies blur the boundaries between work and the rest of their lives."

Last fall, Mr. Swartz began an appointment as a research fellow at Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics,

The university then tried to obstruct Mr. Swartz's laptop specifically, by barring the Media Access Control address, or MAC address, that the network had assigned to his computer.