Understanding the challenges of mobile phone usage data

MobileHCI 2015 - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 504-514

  Church, Karen ^a   Ferreira, Denzil ^b   Banovic, Nikola ^c   Lyons, Kent ^a  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Device usage; Evaluation; Generalizability; Methodology; Micro usage; Mobile hci; Mobile usage; Replication; Smartphone usage; User studies

Indexed keywords

MOBILE DEVICES; SMARTPHONES;

DEVICE USAGE; EVALUATION; GENERALIZABILITY; METHODOLOGY; MICRO-USAGE; MOBILE HCI; MOBILE USAGE; REPLICATION; USER STUDY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84959420899     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2785830.2785891     Document Type: Conference Paper

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