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Mobile Device Usage Characteristics: The Effect of Context and Form Factor on Locked and Unlocked Usage

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Rainhard D. Findling,

Sebastian Scholz,

René MayrhoferAuthors Info & Claims

MoMM '14: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia

Pages 105 - 114

https://doi.org/10.1145/2684103.2684156

Published: 08 December 2014 Publication History

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Smartphones and tablets are an indispensable part of modern communication and people spend considerable time interacting with their devices every day. While substantial research has been conducted concerning smartphone usage, little is known about how tablets are used. This paper studies mobile device usage characteristics like session length, interaction frequency, and daily usage in locked and unlocked state with respect to location context. Based on logs from 1,585 Android devices (470 years of total usage time), we derive and analyze 23 million usage sessions. We found that devices remain locked for 60% of the interactions and usage at home occurs twice as frequent as at work. With an average of 58 interactions per day, smartphones are used twice as often as tablets, while tablet sessions are 2.5 times longer, resulting in almost equal aggregated daily usage. We conclude that usage session characteristics differ considerably between tablets and smartphones.

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Mobile Device Usage Characteristics: The Effect of Context and Form Factor on Locked and Unlocked Usage
1. Security and privacy
  1. Systems security
    1. Operating systems security
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Implementation management

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MoMM '14: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia

December 2014

464 pages

ISBN:9781450330084

DOI:10.1145/2684103

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Shyue-Liang Leon Wang
National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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University of Ulster, UK
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National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

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