Research on browsing experience of smartphone applications
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Abstract
With the expansion of smart-phone market, smart-phones have now become multi-purpose utilitarian tools rather than mere tools of communication. As the number of smart-phone applications increases, users are now provided with more capabilities and utilities. However, as the number of smartphone applications installed on each smartphone increases, users often face difficulties to browse and find applications that they want to execute.
To address the challenge, this paper investigates how people browse their applications. Our research seeks to identify patterns that affect application browsing by examining users' browsing behavior. The research gathers various smartphone and user features including grip method, thumb lengths, gender, and OS from a user study with 28 smart-phone users. The user study consists of participants' activity log of accessing 39 common applications and interviews on their smartphone usage.
The study result shows that 1) gender affects the arranging strategy of applications; females had the tendency of having apps arranged in groups and 2) griping methods, and arranging apps did not largely affect the time of application browsing. Moreover, it was found that 3) the more applications there were, the more folders there were to organize the apps. Phone usage frequency and the number of applications also showed a correlation. As the first investigation on smart-phone application browsing strategies, this research seeks to suggest application browsing strategies and methods that can improve users' smartphone experiences.
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December 2014
478 pages
ISBN:9788968487521
- General Chairs:
- Hwanyong Lee,
- Hyunjhin Lee,
- Kwangsu Cho,
- Program Chairs:
- Seokhee Jeon,
- Hyungseok Kim,
- Younghwan Pan,
- Joon Sang Baek,
- Joongseek Lee,
- Woo Hyun Jung,
- Geehyuk Lee
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