An Android Toolkit for Supporting Field Studies on Mobile Devices

Clemens Holzmann; Andreas Ernst Riegler; Dustin Steiner; Christian Grossauer

doi:10.1145/3152832.3157814

An Android Toolkit for Supporting Field Studies on Mobile Devices

Clemens Holzmann, Andreas Ernst Riegler, Dustin Steiner, Christian Grossauer

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Abstract

Evaluating mobile user interfaces in the field is a time-consuming and cumbersome task. In order to figure out how users interact with mobile apps or devices over an extended period of time, an automated logging of device usage and context information is necessary. In this paper, we present an Android app called automate toolkit for logging such data across arbitrary apps in a convenient and customizable way. It allows to trace usage information like visited screens and performed gestures as well as information about the context of use like device orientation and light conditions. The data is stored on the device for further analysis with statistical software. We made the toolkit available as open source software in order to support developers, designers and researchers in conducting field studies on Android devices.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	MUM 2017 - 16th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, Proceedings
Editors	Julie Williamson, Stefan Schneegass
Pages	473-479
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450353786
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3152832.3157814
Publication status	Published - 26 Nov 2017
Event	16th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2017) - Stuttgart, Germany Duration: 26 Nov 2017 → 29 Nov 2017 http://www.mum-conf.org/2017/

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference	16th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2017)
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Stuttgart
Period	26.11.2017 → 29.11.2017
Internet address	http://www.mum-conf.org/2017/

Keywords

field study
usability evaluation
software toolkit
Android app
Usability evaluation
Software toolkit
Field study

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Holzmann, C., Riegler, A. E., Steiner, D., & Grossauer, C. (2017). An Android Toolkit for Supporting Field Studies on Mobile Devices. In J. Williamson, & S. Schneegass (Eds.), MUM 2017 - 16th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, Proceedings (pp. 473-479). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). https://doi.org/10.1145/3152832.3157814

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Holzmann, C , Riegler, AE, Steiner, D & Grossauer, C 2017, An Android Toolkit for Supporting Field Studies on Mobile Devices. in J Williamson & S Schneegass (eds), MUM 2017 - 16th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, Proceedings. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 473-479, 16th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2017), Stuttgart, Germany, 26.11.2017. https://doi.org/10.1145/3152832.3157814

An Android Toolkit for Supporting Field Studies on Mobile Devices. / Holzmann, Clemens ; Riegler, Andreas Ernst; Steiner, Dustin et al.
MUM 2017 - 16th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, Proceedings. ed. / Julie Williamson; Stefan Schneegass. 2017. p. 473-479 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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