Mobile device usage characteristics: The effect of context and form factor on locked and unlocked usage

Daniel Hintze; Rainhard Dieter Findling; Sebastian Scholz; Rene Mayrhofer

doi:10.1145/2684103.2684156

Mobile device usage characteristics: The effect of context and form factor on locked and unlocked usage

Daniel Hintze, Rainhard Dieter Findling, Sebastian Scholz, Rene Mayrhofer

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Abstract

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 difier considerably between tablets and smartphones.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	12th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, MoMM 2014
Editors	Yu-Hui Tao, Hsin-Chang Yang, I-Hsien Ting, Matthias Steinbauer, Ismail Khalil, Gabriele Anderst-Kotsis
Publisher	ACM Press
Pages	105-114
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450330084
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2684103.2684156
Publication status	Published - 8 Dec 2014
Event	12th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM 2014) - Kaohsiung, Taiwan, China Duration: 8 Dec 2014 → 10 Dec 2014 http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2014/

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Name	12th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, MoMM 2014

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Conference	12th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM 2014)
Country/Territory	China
City	Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Period	08.12.2014 → 10.12.2014
Internet address	http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2014/

Keywords

Daily interactions
Device unlocking
Locked usage
Session length
Smartphone
Tablet
Usage session
User context

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Hintze, D., Findling, R. D., Scholz, S., & Mayrhofer, R. (2014). Mobile device usage characteristics: The effect of context and form factor on locked and unlocked usage. In Y.-H. Tao, H.-C. Yang, I.-H. Ting, M. Steinbauer, I. Khalil, & G. Anderst-Kotsis (Eds.), 12th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, MoMM 2014 (pp. 105-114). (12th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, MoMM 2014). ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/2684103.2684156

Hintze, Daniel ; Findling, Rainhard Dieter ; Scholz, Sebastian et al. / Mobile device usage characteristics : The effect of context and form factor on locked and unlocked usage. 12th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, MoMM 2014. editor / Yu-Hui Tao ; Hsin-Chang Yang ; I-Hsien Ting ; Matthias Steinbauer ; Ismail Khalil ; Gabriele Anderst-Kotsis. ACM Press, 2014. pp. 105-114 (12th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, MoMM 2014).

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Hintze, D, Findling, RD, Scholz, S & Mayrhofer, R 2014, Mobile device usage characteristics: The effect of context and form factor on locked and unlocked usage. in Y-H Tao, H-C Yang, I-H Ting, M Steinbauer, I Khalil & G Anderst-Kotsis (eds), 12th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, MoMM 2014. 12th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, MoMM 2014, ACM Press, pp. 105-114, 12th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM 2014), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, China, 08.12.2014. https://doi.org/10.1145/2684103.2684156

Mobile device usage characteristics: The effect of context and form factor on locked and unlocked usage. / Hintze, Daniel; Findling, Rainhard Dieter; Scholz, Sebastian et al.
12th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, MoMM 2014. ed. / Yu-Hui Tao; Hsin-Chang Yang; I-Hsien Ting; Matthias Steinbauer; Ismail Khalil; Gabriele Anderst-Kotsis. ACM Press, 2014. p. 105-114 (12th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, MoMM 2014).

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Hintze D, Findling RD, Scholz S, Mayrhofer R. Mobile device usage characteristics: The effect of context and form factor on locked and unlocked usage. In Tao YH, Yang HC, Ting IH, Steinbauer M, Khalil I, Anderst-Kotsis G, editors, 12th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, MoMM 2014. ACM Press. 2014. p. 105-114. (12th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, MoMM 2014). doi: 10.1145/2684103.2684156

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