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A personal visual analytics on smartphone usage data

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Zengsheng Zhong,

Mingming LuAuthors Info & Claims

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Volume 41, Issue C

Pages 111 - 120

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvlc.2017.03.006

Published: 01 August 2017 Publication History

Abstract

The percentage of individuals frequently using their smartphones in work and life is increasing steadily. The interactions between individuals and their smartphones can produce large amounts of usage data, which contain rich information about smartphone owners usage habits and their daily life. In this paper, a personal visual analytic tool is proposed to develop insights and discover knowledge of personal life in smartphone usage data. Four cooperated visualization views and many interactions are provided in this tool to visually explore the temporal features of various interactive events between smartphones and their users, the hierarchical associations among event types, and the detailed distributions of massive event sequences. In the case study, plenty of interesting patterns are discovered by analyzing the data of two smartphone users with different usage styles. We also conduct a one-month user study on several invited volunteers from our laboratory and acquaintance circle to improve our prototype system based on their feedback.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s12650-019-00569-2

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Journal of Visual Languages and Computing Volume 41, Issue C

August 2017

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ISSN:1045-926X

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Guo YGuo SJin ZKaul SGotz DCao N(2022)Survey on Visual Analysis of Event Sequence DataIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics10.1109/TVCG.2021.310041328:12(5091-5112)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TVCG.2021.3100413
Luo XYuan YZhang KXia JZhou ZChang LGu T(2019)Enhancing statistical chartsJournal of Visualization10.1007/s12650-019-00569-222:4(819-832)Online publication date: 2-Aug-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s12650-019-00569-2

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