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 …

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 …

Previous studies have found that smartphone users differ by orders of magnitude. We
explore this variability to understand how users install and use native applications in …

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 …

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 …

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

Over the past few years, smartphones have emerged as one of the most popular
mechanisms for accessing content across the Internet driving considerable research to …

Smartphones are finding their way into our daily lives. This paper examines the
domestication of smartphones by looking at how the way we use mobile applications affects …

Teens are using mobile devices for an increasing number of activities. Smartphones and a
variety of mobile apps for communication, entertainment, and productivity have become an …

Designing viable mobile services requires in-depth understanding of how people deal with
their mobile phones on a daily basis. Most studies on the use of mobile phones are based …