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 …

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 …

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 …

Mining smartphone data for app usage prediction and recommendations: A survey

H Cao, M Lin - Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2017 - Elsevier
Smartphones nowadays have become indispensable personal gadgets to support our
activities in almost every aspect of our lives. Thanks to the tremendous advancement of …

Smartphone app usage prediction using points of interest

D Yu, Y Li, F Xu, P Zhang, V Kostakos - … of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Device analyzer: Understanding smartphone usage

DT Wagner, A Rice, AR Beresford - … 2013, Tokyo, Japan, December 2-4 …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract We describe Device Analyzer, a robust data collection tool which is able to reliably
collect information on Android smartphone usage from an open community of contributors …

Understanding the long-term evolution of mobile app usage

T Li, Y Fan, Y Li, S Tarkoma… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The prevalence of smartphones has promoted the popularity of mobile apps in recent years.
Although significant effort has been made to understand mobile app usage, existing studies …

On mining mobile apps usage behavior for predicting apps usage in smartphones

ZX Liao, YC Pan, WC Peng, PR Lei - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Predicting Apps usage has become an important task due to the proliferation of Apps, and
the complex of Apps. However, the previous research works utilized a considerable number …

” what apps did you use?”: Understanding the long-term evolution of mobile app usage

T Li, M Zhang, H Cao, Y Li, S Tarkoma… - Proceedings of the web …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The prevalence of smartphones has promoted the popularity of mobile apps in recent years.
Although significant effort has been made to understand mobile app usage, existing studies …