{"id":206,"date":"2016-07-24T00:39:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T07:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/?page_id=206"},"modified":"2016-08-16T09:54:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T16:54:23","slug":"studying-the-proximity-of-users-to-mobile-phones","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/research\/studying-the-proximity-of-users-to-mobile-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Studying the Proximity of Users to Mobile Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Ubicomp and mobile applications being developed assume users alway have their phones nearby, but we suspect that this may not always be true. Thus, we empirically studyied the proximity of users to mobile devices to determine people&#8217;s usage of mobile phones. We found that people do not keep their phones as close as they might expect. Our study was published at Ubicomp 2006. Our work was <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=2030135\">replicated by Anind Dey and his students<\/a> at Carnegie Mellon in 2011\u00a0to update the data for smart phones. They presented their findings at Ubicomp 2011.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-397\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/prox1.png\" alt=\"Left shows bluetooth badge worn by study participants. Right shows example output of proximity timeline visualization we showed to participants.\" width=\"543\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/prox1.png 543w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/prox1-300x117.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>People<\/h2>\n<p>Shwetak Patel<br \/>\nJulie Kientz<br \/>\nGillian Hayes<br \/>\nSooraj Bhat<br \/>\nGregory Abowd<\/p>\n<h2>Publication<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Patel, S. N., Kientz, J. A., Hayes, G. R., Bhat, S., &amp; Abowd, G. D. (2006, September). Farther than you may think: An empirical investigation of the proximity of users to their mobile phones. In International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (pp. 123-140). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Ubicomp and mobile applications being developed assume users alway have their phones nearby, but we suspect that this may not always be true. Thus, we empirically studyied the proximity of users to mobile devices to determine people&#8217;s usage of mobile phones. We found that people do not keep their phones as close as they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":67,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-206","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206\/revisions\/398"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}