Mobile Application Usage Concentration in a Multidevice World

Benjamin Finley, Tapio Soikkeli, Kalevi Kilkki

2016

Abstract

Mobile applications are a ubiquitous part of modern mobile devices. However the concentration of mobile application usage has been primarily studied only in the smartphone context and only at an aggregate level. In this work we examine the app usage concentration of a detailed multidevice panel of US users that includes smartphones, tablets, and personal computers. Thus we study app usage concentration at both an aggregate and individual device level and we compare the app usage concentration of different device types. We detail a variety of novel results. For example we show that the level of app usage concentration is not correlated between smartphones and tablets of the same user. Thus extrapolation between a user’s devices might be difficult. Overall, the study results emphasize the importance of a multidevice and multilevel approach.

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Finley B., Soikkeli T. and Kilkki K. (2016). Mobile Application Usage Concentration in a Multidevice World . In Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 6: WINSYS, (ICETE 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-196-0, pages 40-51. DOI: 10.5220/0005964000400051


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@conference{winsys16,
author={Benjamin Finley and Tapio Soikkeli and Kalevi Kilkki},
title={Mobile Application Usage Concentration in a Multidevice World},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 6: WINSYS, (ICETE 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={40-51},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005964000400051},
isbn={978-989-758-196-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 6: WINSYS, (ICETE 2016)
TI - Mobile Application Usage Concentration in a Multidevice World
SN - 978-989-758-196-0
AU - Finley B.
AU - Soikkeli T.
AU - Kilkki K.
PY - 2016
SP - 40
EP - 51
DO - 10.5220/0005964000400051