Quantifying Sources and Types of Smartwatch Usage Sessions
summary
Dataset of 307 Android users collected with the Insightful app yields 2.8 million notifications and 800,000 screen events and shows smartwatches generate very short, frequent interactions: half the sessions last <5 seconds and mean session duration is about 10 seconds versus smartphone averages near 4 minutes. Only ~10% of notifications trigger interaction, median response delay to notifications is ~23 seconds, and reactive versus proactive session types and app-category differences are quantified and compared to four smartphone studies.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and motivation
- 1:50Key smartwatch functionalities
- 3:55Smartwatch usage patterns
- 7:09Usage session analysis results
- 10:23Factors behind usage differences
- 11:50Notification interaction insights
- 13:15Benefits and takeaways
- 15:03Design implications and conclusion
- 15:43Q&A session
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