What Makes Smartphone Use Meaningful or Meaningless?

Lukoff, Kai, Yu, Cissy, Kientz, Julie, Hiniker, Alexis·2018·Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
DOI 10.1145/3191754

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