Anatomizing application performance differences on smartphones

J Huang, Q Xu, B Tiwana, ZM Mao, M Zhang… - Proceedings of the 8th …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Discovering different kinds of smartphone users through their application usage behaviors

S Zhao, J Ramos, J Tao, Z Jiang, S Li, Z Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Understanding smartphone users is fundamental for creating better smartphones, and
improving the smartphone usage experience and generating generalizable and …

Characterizing and modeling user activity on smartphones: summary

A Shye, B Scholbrock, G Memik, PA Dinda - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis of real smartphone usage during a 6-
month study of real user activity on the Android G1 smartphone. Our goal is to study the high …

Studying smartphone usage: Lessons from a four-month field study

A Rahmati, L Zhong - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Revisitation analysis of smartphone app use

SL Jones, D Ferreira, S Hosio, J Goncalves… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Obtaining in-context measurements of cellular network performance

A Gember, A Akella, J Pang, A Varshavsky… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Network service providers, and other parties, require an accurate understanding of the
performance cellular networks deliver to users. In particular, they often seek a measure of …

Identifying diverse usage behaviors of smartphone apps

Q Xu, J Erman, A Gerber, Z Mao, J Pang… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Understanding the challenges of mobile phone usage data

K Church, D Ferreira, N Banovic, K Lyons - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
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 app usage analysis: datasets, methods, and applications

T Li, T Xia, H Wang, Z Tu, S Tarkoma… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As smartphones have become indispensable personal devices, the number of smartphone
users has increased dramatically over the last decade. These personal devices, which are …

Characterizing smartphone usage patterns from millions of android users

H Li, X Lu, X Liu, T Xie, K Bian, FX Lin, Q Mei… - Proceedings of the 2015 …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
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 …