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Device Analyzer: Understanding Smartphone Usage

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Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services (MobiQuitous 2013)

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We describe Device Analyzer, a robust data collection tool which is able to reliably collect information on Android smartphone usage from an open community of contributors. We collected the largest, most detailed dataset of Android phone use publicly available to date. In this paper we systematically evaluate smartphones as a platform for mobile ubiquitous computing by quantifying access to critical resources in the wild. Our analysis of the dataset demonstrates considerable diversity in behaviour between users but also over time. We further demonstrate the value of handset-centric data collection by presenting case-study analyses of human mobility, interaction patterns, and energy management and identify notable differences between our results and those found by other studies.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Samuel Aaron for his many insightful comments and suggestions related to this work and Andy Hopper for his insight and support. This work was supported by the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Premium Studentship scheme, a Google focussed research award and the EPSRC Standard Research Grant EP/P505445/1.

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    Daniel T. Wagner, Andrew Rice & Alastair R. Beresford

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Wagner, D.T., Rice, A., Beresford, A.R. (2014). Device Analyzer: Understanding Smartphone Usage. In: Stojmenovic, I., Cheng, Z., Guo, S. (eds) Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services. MobiQuitous 2013. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 131. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11569-6_16

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