Carli Ochs is passionate about understanding how technology shapes and affects social interaction, loneliness, and well-being. She joined the Media Use & Effects Team at the IKMZ in September 2025. Before that, she received a Postdoctoral Mobility Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), which enabled her to conduct research at the Happy Tech Lab at Georgetown University. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Fribourg.

• AI use for social support 
• Social interactions 
• Phubbing 
• Digital wellbeing 
• Human computer interaction

Frackowiak, M., & Ochs, C. (2026). El uso del teléfono móvil en presencia de otros (phubbing): Conocimientos sobre las consecuencias relacionales, las razones y los vínculos con las adicciones conductuales. Manual de Conductas Adictivas sin Sustancia, 2026, ISBN 978-84-123476-7-8, págs. 669-694, 669–694. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=10810239.

Frackowiak, M., Ochs, C., Wolfers, L., & Vanden Abeele, M. (2024). Commentary: Technoference or parental phubbing? A call for greater conceptual and operational clarity of parental smartphone use around children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 65(8), 1108–1114. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13917

Ochs, C., Gahrmann, C., & Sonderegger, A. (2024). Learning in hybrid classes: The role of off-task activities. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 1629. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50962-z

Ochs, C., Kosnowski, N., Jaunin, A., & Sauer, J. (2025). Professionally phubbed: A mixed-method experiment measuring the effects of phone snubbing behavior during a job interview (Pt. 338-359). Mobile Media & Communication, 13(2), 20501579241305717. https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579241305717

Ochs, C., & Sauer, J. (2022). Curtailing smartphone use: A field experiment evaluating two interventions. Behaviour & Information Technology, 41(16), 3598–3616. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2021.2007284

Ochs, C., & Sauer, J. (2022). Disturbing aspects of smartphone usage: A qualitative analysis. Behaviour & Information Technology, 0(0), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2022.2129092

Ochs, C., & Sonderegger, A. (2021). What Students Do While You Are Teaching – Computer and Smartphone Use in Class and Its Implication on Learning. In C. Ardito, R. Lanzilotti, A. Malizia, H. Petrie, A. Piccinno, G. Desolda, & K. Inkpen (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021 (Vol. 12933, pp. 501–520). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85616-8_29

Ochs, C., & Sonderegger, A. (2022). The Interplay Between Presence and Learning. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 3. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3389/frvir.2022.742509

Zhou, C., Dewaele, J.-M., Ochs, C. M., & De Leersnyder, J. (2021). The Role of Language and Cultural Engagement in Emotional Fit with Culture: An Experiment Comparing Chinese-English Bilinguals to British and Chinese Monolinguals. Affective Science, 2(2), 128–141. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-021-00037-x