We present a revisitation analysis of smartphone use to investigate the question: do
smartphones induce usage habits? We analysed three months of application launch logs …

Understanding smartphone users is fundamental for creating better smartphones, and
improving the smartphone usage experience and generating generalizable and …

Many emerging mobile applications and services are based on smartphones. We have
performed a four-month field study of the adoption and usage of smartphone-based services …

Driven by curiosity and our own three diverse smartphone application usage datasets, we
sought to unpack the nuances of mobile device use by revisiting two recent Mobile HCI …

We develop a Markov state transition model of smartphone screen use. We collected use
traces from real-world users during a 3-month naturalistic deployment via an app-store …

There have been many large-scale investigations of users' mobile app launch behaviour,
but all have been conducted on Android, even though recent reports suggest iPhones …

Smartphone usage is a hot topic in pervasive computing due to their popularity and personal
aspect. We present our initial results from analyzing how individual differences, such as …

Despite a large body of literature analyzing mobile device usage, app switching is still an
overlooked interaction. To better understand and streamline the app switching experience in …

The current paper establishes empirical patterns associated with mobile internet use on
smartphones and explores user differences in these behaviors. We apply a naturalistic and …

Using detailed traces from 255 users, we conduct a comprehensive study of smartphone
use. We characterize intentional user activities--interactions with the device and the …