Web Self-Controller: A Filtering Browser for Self-Control

Various Web contents exist on the Internet in recent years, and are used by many users. But some people are so fascinated by and absorbed in Web contents that their everyday life is affected. Such a person yields to the temptation because of her/his weak will, even if s/he tries to control her/his Web access by self-control. Moreover, it is difficult for such a person to overcome the temptation because there are few tools to help her/his self-control. Then, this paper proposes a method that applies the filtering technology conventionally used for access restriction to self-control over Web access, and allows users to control their own Web access. Specifically, we create a prototype Web browser that has four functions to filter Web pages: a filtering based on their content, a filtering based on their ID (URL), a filtering based on their actions (buttons) such as purchasing and playing, and a time-based filtering.