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Vladimir is sleeping now. I will leave your first Q for him, but answer your second Q because we had a discussion about it.
We are in our apartments when we are being monitored, neither of us owns a TV and the internet has been the primary way for us to procrastinate or distract ourselves.
We would both continue to consider the experiment a success if all it does is to continue to prevent us from using the internet to procrastinate or to distract ourselves from our work -- it is not necessary for us to work at our computers the whole time we are being monitored.
So for example, I spent part of the time that Vladimir monitored me shaving and talking to my apartment manager because that was the most productive use of that time. (Of course, I told Vladimir that that was my plan.)
I see. I had thought your experiment "when I want to be working on the computer, ensure I am not procrastinating on the computer instead" but it is actually "try to ensure I am not procrastinating on the computer".
You have understood correctly. That is what Vladimir and I have defined to be our goal. (But we can probably help people achieve the other goal, too.)