How age and gender affect smartphone usage
Abstract
Smartphone usage is a hot topic in pervasive computing due to their popularity and personal aspect. We present our initial results from analyzing how individual differences, such as gender and age, affect smartphone usage. The dataset comes from a large scale longitudinal study, the Menthal project. We select a sample of 30, 677 participants, from which 16, 147 are males and 14, 523 are females, with a median age of 21 years. These have been tracked for at least 28 days and they have submitted their demographic data through a questionnaire. The ongoing experiment has been started in January 2014 and we have used our own mobile data collection and analysis framework. Females use smartphones for longer periods than males, with a daily mean of 166.78 minutes vs. 154.26 minutes. Younger participants use their phones longer and usage is directed towards entertainment and social interactions through specialized apps. Older participants use it less and mainly for getting information or using it as a classic phone.
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This finding could also reflect the overall higher use of smartphone apps in younger people, especially in the form of social, gaming, and video apps, which may offer greater competition for smartphone use.
“This finding could also reflect the overall higher use of smartphone apps in younger people, especially in the form of social, gaming, and video apps [62], which may offer greater competition for smartphone use, as noted by a young noncompleter participant in the interviews.”
From An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Prototype Mobile Program for Individuals with a Visible Difference: Mixed Methods Feasibility Study (2022) · cites this paper as [62]
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- Authors
- Andone, I., Błaszkiewicz, K., Eibes, M., Trendafilov, B., Montag, C., & Markowetz, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Bonn (DE)
- Universität Ulm (DE)
- markowetz.de, Bonn, Germany
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2016-09-12
- Pages
- 9-12
- OpenAlex
- W2519093331
- Cited by
- 220
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 39 · 2021: 29 · 2020: 34 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 4 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 40.12
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (MO 2363/3-1)
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (00160280)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Demography › Technology Use by Older Adults
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Keywords
- smartphone use, age differences, gender differences, individual differences, daily screen time, entertainment apps, information seeking
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