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Comment on AppSensor by matthias

matthias — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:30:54 +0000

Thank you for the feedback and the discussion here. Maybe you are interested in our “everything on one glance” infographic. Find it here: http://appazaar.net/study/

Comment on Think of the children? by matnel

matnel — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:29:27 +0000

Hi Jack, The EU Kids research material is available on their website. My own research on this topic is not currently open or public.

Comment on Think of the children? by Jack morgan

Jack morgan — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:13:04 +0000

My grandfather wrote the first book on this in England, I think entitled ‘What do children read?’ (Augustus Jack Jenkinson) so I have a long standing interest in this personally as well as socio-politically. I do wonder if some simple suggestions about this could be technologically based. How would I see your research? As a teacher and mathematician, I would like to evaluate the findings and what the research suggests. How could I get involved?

Comment on Mobile phones, children and families by Science and Industry » Blog Archive » Think of the children?

Science and Industry » Blog Archive » Think of the children? — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:01:46 +0000

[...] of EU Kids Online II, a big project focused on what children do in the Internet. I’ve studied children and families previously, and therefore interested in the recent developments in this field. And, compared to any study I [...]

Comment on AppSensor by matnel

matnel — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:28:06 +0000

Niels: Clearly, there are many items that can be connected to this study, and there are many things that can be digged out from the dataset: luckily, as I understood, the data set will be opened for collaboration. So, maybe next years Mobile HCI will have more on apps and how we use applications — there is science to be done!

Comment on AppSensor by matnel

matnel — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:22:36 +0000

J Kujala: Yep, SP 360 panel has a long study done by Nokia at they provide some interesting details on how the behavior has changes. I was lucky enough to see some data visualisations while working at Nokia. And, I’m sure Apple, Google, Samsung, … have their own engineers & scientist working on this. However, those data sets usually tend to stay inside the company.

And yes, there are some papers focusing on single app or few app usages out in the scientific field, nicely referenced in this paper too. So, the concept of measuring application use is not novel. However, I do like the notion of “appsensor”, makes it sound like an every day activity that we can use as an input for other systems.

Comment on AppSensor by Niels

Niels — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:22:34 +0000

Yep there are some papers that analyze app usage. Still the paper has two major contributions. First, in line with some other recent work (including our own), the paper shows how researchers can do this kind of work without requiring huge resources or the support of major companies. Second, the results are based on the largest sample I’m aware of (with minimal resources required).

While the paper itself is IMO very cool I beliefe that there is a lot more potential in this approach. E.g. I would love to see work that combines app usage with transportation mode recognition. Thereby it could e.g. be clarified if people REALLY walk while typing or reading (which is basically the motivation of a large corpus of mobile HCI work).

Comment on AppSensor by J Kujala

J Kujala — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:21:04 +0000

I guess you know about 360 panel at Nokia? http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=360+panel+nokia

There are many entities that track mobile phone usage and appsensor is nothing new, though the paper was still interesting.

Comment on Pervasive 2010 by Science and Industry » Blog Archive » AppSensor

Science and Industry » Blog Archive » AppSensor — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:04:57 +0000

[...] on the application use and lifetime in a more broad manner. I remember seeing in an paper in the Pervasive 2010 about one game and the usage patterns of it. But, we don’t know so much on how the [...]

Comment on Tiny Scratch exercise by Marla

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