Speed as context of app usage in daily life: A data analysis method

Ji Lung Hsieh, Chen Yi Yu

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Abstract

The study uses speed context composed by temporal and spatial factors to analyze people's app usages in their daily life. Cellphone activities of forty-five students recruited from university campuses were recorded and analyzed. Recorded activities include app usages, monitor switching on/off, and geolocations, all with timestamp. The study categorized more than one thousand apps into seven categories based on Android's official categories. Total counts and duration of app usage were summarized to uncover how college students utilized cellphone as their social or entertainment tools. Furthermore, according to geolocations and timestamp, the study categorized participant's moving statuses into five categories including high speed such as on buses, low speed such as walking, staying at home, at office, at somewhere else. The results show that, compared with high and low speed moving, participants were found to play game apps on stationary statuses significantly. However, most of them often played puzzle games on buses even walking. The users often transfer or commute for specific purposes, and the use of mobile applications would fit to different instrumental purposes, which means the usage mode is not as regular as when they stay still.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2017 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings
Subtitle of host publicationData Informed Society, PNC 2017
EditorsSophy Shu-Jiun Chen, Feng-Tyan Lin, Da-Wei Wang, Ling-Jyh Chen
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages168-173
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9789869531702
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017 Dec 13
Event2017 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings, PNC 2017 - Tainan, Taiwan
Duration: 2017 Nov 72017 Nov 9

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2017 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings: Data Informed Society, PNC 2017
Volume2017-December

Conference

Conference2017 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings, PNC 2017
Country/TerritoryTaiwan
CityTainan
Period2017/11/072017/11/09

Keywords

  • Social computing
  • daily life research
  • mobile computing
  • social media

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications

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