How carat affects user behavior: implications for mobile battery awareness applications
Abstract
Mobile devices have limited battery life, and numerous battery management applications are available that aim to improve it. This paper examines a large-scale mobile battery awareness application, called Carat, to see how it changes user behavior with long-term use. We conducted a survey of current Carat Android users and analyzed their interaction logs. The results show that long-term Carat users save more battery, charge their devices less often, learn to manage their battery with less help from Carat, have a better understanding of how Carat works, and may enjoy competing against other users. Based on these findings, we propose a set of guidelines for mobile battery awareness applications: battery awareness applications should make the reasoning behind their recommendations understandable to the user, be tailored to retain long-term users, take the audience into account when formulating feedback, and distinguish third-party and system applications.
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The long-term use of the Carat app could influence participants' behavior.
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- Authors
- Athukorala, K., Lagerspetz, E., von Kügelgen, M., Jylhä, A., Oliner, A. J., Tarkoma, S., & Jacucci, G.
- Affiliations
- University of Helsinki (FI)
- University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2014-04-26
- Pages
- 1029-1038
- OpenAlex
- W2100822595
- Cited by
- 36
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 5
- FWCI
- 8.51
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Green IT and Sustainability
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Usability and User Interface Design
- Keywords
- CARAT, user behavior, battery life, battery management, user feedback, Android
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