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Visual attention is highly fragmented during mobile interactions, but the erratic nature of attention shifts currently limits attentive user interfaces to adapting after the fact, i.e. after shifts have already happened. We instead study…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Julian Steil , Philipp Müller , Yusuke Sugano , Andreas Bulling

In this paper, we present a unique collection of four data sets to study social behaviour. The data were collected at four international scientific conferences, during which we measured face-to-face contacts along with additional…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-06-13 Mathieu Génois , Maria Zens , Marcos Oliveira , Clemens Lechner , Johann Schaible , Markus Strohmaier

The recent availability of digital traces generated by phone calls and online logins has significantly increased the scientific understanding of human mobility. Until now, however, limited data resolution and coverage have hindered a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-20 Laura Alessandretti , Piotr Sapiezynski , Sune Lehmann , Andrea Baronchelli

Circadian rhythms are known to be important drivers of human activity and the recent availability of electronic records of human behaviour has provided fine-grained data of temporal patterns of activity on a large scale. Further,…

With the widespread application of large language models (LLMs), user privacy protection has become a significant research topic. Existing privacy preference modeling methods often rely on large-scale user data, making effective privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Haowei Yang , Qingyi Lu , Yang Wang , Sibei Liu , Jiayun Zheng , Ao Xiang

Facial motion capture in mixed reality headsets enables real-time avatar animation, allowing users to convey non-verbal cues during virtual interactions. However, as facial motion data constitutes a behavioral biometric, its use raises…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Adriano Castro , Simon Hanisch , Matin Fallahi , Thorsten Strufe

Since the World Health Organization announced the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, curbing the spread of the virus has become an international priority. It has greatly affected people's lifestyles. In this article, we observe and analyze…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Yuxuan Yang , Maiko Shigeno

Although the traditional physical password, fingerprint unlocking and facial features have improved the security to a certain extent, they have the characteristics of passive authentication and easiness to be stolen. The existing behavioral…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Chunmin Mi , Runjie Xu , Ching-Torng Lin

We present results from a longitudinal study of 34 iPh-one 3GS users, called LiveLab. LiveLab collected unprecedented usage data through an in-device, programmable logger and several structured interviews with the participants throughout…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2011-06-28 Ahmad Rahmati , Clayton Shepard , Chad Tossell , Mian Dong , Zhen Wang , Lin Zhong , Philip Kortum

Recent industrial and academic research has focused on data-driven analytics with smartphones by collecting user interaction, context, and device systems data through Application Programming interfaces (APIs) and sensors. The Android OS…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Hansoo Lee , Joonyoung Park , Uichin Lee

The Google Play marketplace has introduced the Data Safety section to improve transparency regarding how mobile applications (apps) collect, share, and protect user data. This mechanism requires developers to disclose privacy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Bakheet Aljedaani

Notifications are one of the most prevailing mechanisms on smartphones and personal computers to convey timely and important information. Despite these benefits, smartphone notifications demand individuals' attention and can cause stress…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Judith S. Heinisch , Nan Gao , Christoph Anderson , Shohreh Deldari , Klaus David , Flora Salim

We study six months of human mobility data, including WiFi and GPS traces recorded with high temporal resolution, and find that time series of WiFi scans contain a strong latent location signal. In fact, due to inherent stability and low…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-08-24 Piotr Sapiezynski , Arkadiusz Stopczynski , Radu Gatej , Sune Lehmann

An increasing number of mental health services are offered through mobile systems, a paradigm called mHealth. Although there is an unprecedented growth in the adoption of mHealth systems, partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Leonardo Horn Iwaya , M. Ali Babar , Awais Rashid , Chamila Wijayarathna

Diversity-aware data are essential for a robust modeling of human behavior in context. In addition, being the human behavior of interest for numerous applications, data must also be reusable across domain, to ensure diversity of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Matteo Busso , Xiaoyue Li

Smartphones have become quite pervasive in various aspects of our daily lives. They have become important links to a host of important data and applications, which if compromised, can lead to disastrous results. Due to this, today's…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-15 Thingom Bishal Singha , Rajsekhar Kumar Nath , A. V. Narsimhadhan

In this paper we present the first population-level, city-scale analysis of application usage on smartphones. Using deep packet inspection at the network operator level, we obtained a geo-tagged dataset with more than 6 million unique…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Donghan Yu , Yong Li , Fengli Xu , Pengyu Zhang , Vassilis Kostakos

With the rapid growth of mobile apps, users' concerns about their privacy have become increasingly prominent. Android app logs serve as crucial computer resources, aiding developers in debugging and monitoring the status of Android apps,…

Organizations with a large user base, such as Samsung and Google, can potentially benefit from collecting and mining users' data. However, doing so raises privacy concerns, and risks accidental privacy breaches with serious consequences.…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Thông T. Nguyên , Xiaokui Xiao , Yin Yang , Siu Cheung Hui , Hyejin Shin , Junbum Shin

The widespread use of smartphones gives rise to new security and privacy concerns. Smartphone thefts account for the largest percentage of thefts in recent crime statistics. Using a victim's smartphone, the attacker can launch impersonation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Wei-Han Lee , Ruby Lee