“It's Like Being Gone For A Second” Using Subjective Evidence-Based Ethnography to Understand Locked Smartphone Use Among Young Adults

M Heitmayer - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Smartphone use usually refers to what happens after users unlock their devices. But a large
number of smartphone interactions actually take place on the lock screen of the phone. This …

An intelligent optimization strategy based on deep reinforcement learning for step counting

Z Sun, P Chen, X Zhang - Discrete Dynamics in Nature and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With the popularity of Internet of things technology and intelligent devices, the application
prospect of accurate step counting has gained more and more attention. To solve the …

Smartphones as steady companions: device use in everyday life and the economics of attention

M Heitmayer - 2021 - etheses.lse.ac.uk
This thesis investigates smartphone use in naturally occurring contexts with a dataset
comprising 200 hours of audio-visual first-person recordings from wearable cameras, and …