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

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 …

The use of cellular data networks is increasingly popular due to the widespread deployment
of 3G technologies and the rapid adoption of smartphones, such as iPhone and GPhone …

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 …

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 …

he prevalence of smart devices has promoted the popular-ity of mobile applications (aka
apps) in recent years. A number of interesting and important questions remain unan-swered …

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 …

While people often use smartphones to achieve specific goals, at other times they use them
out of habit or to pass the time. Uses and Gratifications Theory explains that users' …

Smartphone users are increasingly shifting to using apps as" gateways" to Internet services
rather than traditional web browsers. App marketplaces for iOS, Android, and Windows …

As smartphones have become indispensable personal devices, the number of smartphone
users has increased dramatically over the last decade. These personal devices, which are …