Understanding usage states on mobile devices

C Jesdabodi, W Maalej - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM international joint …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
C Jesdabodi, W Maalej
Proceedings of the 2015 ACM international joint conference on pervasive and …, 2015dl.acm.org
Nowadays, mobile apps are used for nearly every situation: for planning the day,
communicating with colleagues, ordering goods, or entertaining and socializing. To
understand users expectations in each situation and to provide context-aware services,
researchers and app vendors started to capture users' interaction with the smartphone and
to model user's behavior. This paper reports on a behavioral study based on app usage data
logged over one year and the corresponding apps descriptions from the app store. Using …
Nowadays, mobile apps are used for nearly every situation: for planning the day, communicating with colleagues, ordering goods, or entertaining and socializing. To understand users expectations in each situation and to provide context-aware services, researchers and app vendors started to capture users' interaction with the smartphone and to model user's behavior. This paper reports on a behavioral study based on app usage data logged over one year and the corresponding apps descriptions from the app store. Using Topic Modeling and clustering techniques, we segmented the usage data into meaningful clusters that correspond to different "states", in which users normally use their smartphone, e.g. socializing or consuming media. Researchers and app-vendors can use the insights from our work to improve their contextual recommendation techniques and the overall usage experience.
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