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Quantifying Sources and Types of Smartwatch Usage Sessions

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Zhanna Sarsenbayeva,

Niels van Berkel,

Jorge Goncalves,

Reza Rawassizadeh,

Vassilis Kostakos,

Denzil FerreiraAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 3569 - 3581

https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025817

Published: 02 May 2017 Publication History

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We seek to quantify smartwatch use, and establish differences and similarities to smartphone use. Our analysis considers use traces from 307 users that include over 2.8 million notifications and 800,000 screen usage events, and we compare our findings to previous work that quantifies smartphone use. The results show that smartwatches are used more briefly and more frequently throughout the day, with half the sessions lasting less than 5 seconds. Interaction with notifications is similar across both types of devices, both in terms of response times and preferred application types. We also analyse the differences between our smartwatch dataset and a dataset aggregated from four previously conducted smartphone studies. The similarities and differences between smartwatch and smartphone use suggest effect on usage that go beyond differences in form factor.

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