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TY - GEN
T1 - Demand around the clock
T2 - time use and data demand of mobile devices in everyday life
AU - Widdicks, Kelly Victoria
AU - Bates, Oliver Emile Glaves
AU - Hazas, Michael David
AU - Friday, Adrian John
AU - Beresford, Alastair
N1 - ©The Authors, 2017. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in CHI '17 Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025730
PY - 2017/5/6
Y1 - 2017/5/6
N2 - Motivated by mobile devices’ growing demand for connectivity, and concern in HCI with the energy intensity and sustainability of networked services, in this paper we reveal the impact of applications on smartphones and tablets in terms of network demand and time use. Using a detailed mixed methods study with eight participants, we first provide an account of how data demand has meaning and utility in our participants’ social practices, and the timing and relative impacts of these. We then assess the scale of this demand by drawing comparison between our fine-grained observations and a more representative dataset of 398 devices from the Device Analyzer corpus. Our results highlight the significant categories of data demanding practice, and the identification of where changes in app time and duration of use might reduce or shift demand to reduce services’ impacts.
AB - Motivated by mobile devices’ growing demand for connectivity, and concern in HCI with the energy intensity and sustainability of networked services, in this paper we reveal the impact of applications on smartphones and tablets in terms of network demand and time use. Using a detailed mixed methods study with eight participants, we first provide an account of how data demand has meaning and utility in our participants’ social practices, and the timing and relative impacts of these. We then assess the scale of this demand by drawing comparison between our fine-grained observations and a more representative dataset of 398 devices from the Device Analyzer corpus. Our results highlight the significant categories of data demanding practice, and the identification of where changes in app time and duration of use might reduce or shift demand to reduce services’ impacts.
KW - sustainability
KW - data demand
KW - ICT
KW - demand designed into practices
U2 - 10.1145/3025453.3025730
DO - 10.1145/3025453.3025730
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781450346559
SP - 5361
EP - 5372
BT - CHI '17 Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - ACM
CY - New York
ER -