mobileDNA application used to explore location information

7 pages•Published: May 1, 2023

Fallo Kanye, Julia Keddie, Renette Blignaut, Lieven De Marez and Simon Perneel

Abstract

Global positioning systems (GPS) are more trustworthy than other techniques for gathering location data and have opened new research opportunities. Researchers and partners of Media, Innovation and Communication Technology at Gent University are interested to know how Belgians utilise specific applications on their smartphones. The purpose of this study is to investigate mobileDNA users' behaviour in terms of where, when, and how they utilised their smartphone daily. MobileDNA is a free smartphone logging application that was used as the data collection tool for this research. The GPS metadata is collected every 15 minutes by mobileDNA. We discovered that the application usage sequence of users on a daily path varies from day to day, and that most users tend to travel to more than one city or town in a day. We predicted home of the mobileDNA users and compared smartphone usage at home and outside home and discovered that users spent more time on their smartphone outside their home compared to when they are at home.

Keyphrases: imec mict ugent, smartphone application usage, smartphone behaviour, smartphone gps, smartphone usage

In: Hossana Twinomurinzi, Nkosikhona Theoren Msweli, Tendani Mawela and Surendra Thakur (editors). Proceedings of NEMISA Digital Skills Conference 2023: Scaling Data Skills For Multidisciplinary Impact, vol 5, pages 47-53.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/6C3m
	https://doi.org/10.29007/fz75

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{DigitalSkills2023:mobileDNA_application_used_explore,
  author    = {Fallo Kanye and Julia Keddie and Renette Blignaut and Lieven De Marez and Simon Perneel},
  title     = {mobileDNA application used to explore location information},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of NEMISA Digital Skills Conference 2023: Scaling Data Skills For Multidisciplinary Impact},
  editor    = {Hossana Twinomurinzi and Nkosikhona Theoren Msweli and Tendani Mawela and Surendra Thakur},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Education Science},
  volume    = {5},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2306},
  url       = {/publications/paper/6C3m},
  doi       = {10.29007/fz75},
  pages     = {47-53},
  year      = {2023}}

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