Paper Info
Title
How carat affects user behavior: implications for mobile battery awareness applications
Abstract
Mobile devices have limited battery life, and numerous battery management applications are available that aim to improve it. This paper examines a large-scale mobile battery awareness application, called Carat, to see how it changes user behavior with long-term use. We conducted a survey of current Carat Android users and analyzed their interaction logs. The results show that long-term Carat users save more battery, charge their devices less often, learn to manage their battery with less help from Carat, have a better understanding of how Carat works, and may enjoy competing against other users. Based on these findings, we propose a set of guidelines for mobile battery awareness applications: battery awareness applications should make the reasoning behind their recommendations understandable to the user, be tailored to retain long-term users, take the audience into account when formulating feedback, and distinguish third-party and system applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2556288.2557271
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
large-scale mobile battery awareness,mobile device,long-term carat user,user behavior,numerous battery management application,long-term user,battery awareness application,limited battery life,long-term use,current carat android user,mobile battery awareness application
Carat,Android (operating system),Computer science,Mobile device,Human–computer interaction,Battery (electricity),Multimedia,Energy awareness
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
0.60
19
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kumaripaba Athukorala124113.19
Eemil Lagerspetz242729.56
Maria von Kügelgen3180.60
Antti Jylhä41149.79
Adam J. Oliner571551.10
Sasu Tarkoma61312125.76
Giulio Jacucci71701126.44