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' …

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

Digital intervention tools against problematic smartphone usage help users control their
consumption on smartphones, for example, by setting a time limit on an app. However …

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 …

Though many people report an interest in self-limiting certain aspects of their phone use,
challenges adhering to self-defined limits are common. We conducted a design exercise …

Nowadays, mobile apps are used for nearly every situation: for planning the day,
communicating with colleagues, ordering goods, or entertaining and socializing. To …

In this paper we present the first population-level, city-scale analysis of application usage on
smartphones. Using deep packet inspection at the network operator level, we obtained a …

People, especially young adults, often use their smartphones out of habit: They compulsively
browse social networks, check emails, and play video-games with little or no awareness at …

Researchers who analyse smartphone usage logs often make the assumption that users
who lock and unlock their phone for brief periods of time (eg, less than a minute) are …

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 …