Paper Info
Title
Falling asleep with Angry Birds, Facebook and Kindle: a large scale study on mobile application usage
Abstract
While applications for mobile devices have become extremely important in the last few years, little public information exists on mobile application usage behavior. We describe a large-scale deployment-based research study that logged detailed application usage information from over 4,100 users of Android-powered mobile devices. We present two types of results from analyzing this data: basic descriptive statistics and contextual descriptive statistics. In the case of the former, we find that the average session with an application lasts less than a minute, even though users spend almost an hour a day using their phones. Our contextual findings include those related to time of day and location. For instance, we show that news applications are most popular in the morning and games are at night, but communication applications dominate through most of the day. We also find that despite the variety of apps available, communication applications are almost always the first used upon a device's waking from sleep. In addition, we discuss the notion of a virtual application sensor, which we used to collect the data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2037373.2037383
Mobile HCI
Keywords
Field
DocType
android-powered mobile device,mobile application usage behavior,large scale study,basic descriptive statistic,mobile device,detailed application usage information,contextual finding,contextual descriptive statistic,virtual application sensor,news application,angry birds,communication application,measuring
Time of day,Descriptive statistics,Internet privacy,Mobile search,Software deployment,Public information,Computer science,Mobile device,Mobile apps
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
254
9.06
12
Authors
5
Search Limit
100254
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthias Böhmer153328.10
Brent Hecht2111773.88
Johannes Schöning3114587.96
Antonio Krüger41537127.04
Gernot Bauer52649.99