Is obstructive behaviour in order to protect a user’s health considered good UX?
There are a number of examples of applications/systems following a behaviour which is meant to protect the health of the user. Ranging from games prompting the user to go out and do something else after a time threshold, to applications limiting its functionality in the sole purpose to protect its user.
The case that got me pondering whether this is a good approach or not was the warning on Android devices when a user increase the audio jack output volume.
Personally this annoys me more than feeling some appreciation for Google's care about my well being, for me it's an obstructive element which doesn't let me raise the volume to desired level without waking up the screen and dismissing this dialogue. I also find it annoying since I know that technically the actual audio output amplitude can vary very much just depending on the headphone/speaker impedance (rendering the dialogue close to meaningless in my meaning).