Mobile manifestations of alertness: Connecting biological rhythms with patterns of smartphone app use

Elizabeth L. Murnane; Saeed Abdullah; Mark Matthews; Matthew Kay; Julie A. Kientz; Tanzeem Choudhury; Geri Gay; Dan Cosley

doi:10.1145/2935334.2935383

Mobile manifestations of alertness: Connecting biological rhythms with patterns of smartphone app use

Elizabeth L. Murnane, Saeed Abdullah, Mark Matthews, Matthew Kay, Julie A. Kientz, Tanzeem Choudhury, Geri Gay, Dan Cosley

Computer Science

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Abstract

Our body clock causes considerable variations in our behavioral, mental, and physical processes, including alertness, throughout the day. While much research has studied technology usage patterns, the potential impact of underlying biological processes on these patterns is under-explored. Using data from 20 participants over 40 days, this paper presents the first study to connect patterns of mobile application usage with these contributing biological factors. Among other results, we find that usage patterns vary for individuals with different body clock types, that usage correlates with rhythms of alertness, that app use features such as duration and switching can distinguish periods of low and high alertness, and that app use reflects sleep interruptions as well as sleep duration. We conclude by discussing how our findings inform the design of biologically-friendly technology that can better support personal rhythms of performance.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2016
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	465-477
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450344081
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2935334.2935383
State	Published - Sep 6 2016
Event	18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2016 - Florence, Italy Duration: Sep 6 2016 → Sep 9 2016

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Name	Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2016

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Other	18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2016
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Florence
Period	9/6/16 → 9/9/16

Funding

This work was partially supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Health Data Exploration Project, by the Intel Science & Technology Center for Pervasive Computing (ISTC-PC), and by the National Science Foundation under grant SCH-1344613. Elizabeth Murnane was supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under grant DGE-1144153.

Keywords

Alertness
Circadian rhythms
Mobile app use
Sleep

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Information Systems
Human-Computer Interaction
Software

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Murnane, E. L., Abdullah, S., Matthews, M., Kay, M., Kientz, J. A., Choudhury, T., Gay, G., & Cosley, D. (2016). Mobile manifestations of alertness: Connecting biological rhythms with patterns of smartphone app use. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2016 (pp. 465-477). (Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2016). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/2935334.2935383

Murnane, Elizabeth L. ; Abdullah, Saeed ; Matthews, Mark et al. / Mobile manifestations of alertness : Connecting biological rhythms with patterns of smartphone app use. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2016. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2016. pp. 465-477 (Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2016).

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Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2016. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2016. p. 465-477 (Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2016).

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Murnane EL, Abdullah S, Matthews M, Kay M, Kientz JA, Choudhury T et al. Mobile manifestations of alertness: Connecting biological rhythms with patterns of smartphone app use. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2016. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2016. p. 465-477. (Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2016). doi: 10.1145/2935334.2935383

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