User trial of the ScreenLife personal tracking application

Asadzadeh, P., Chalmers, M., Morrison, A., Rooksby, J. and Rost, M. (2016) User trial of the ScreenLife personal tracking application. [Data Collection]

Original publication URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858055

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ScreenLife is a personal tracking application developed at the University of Glasgow. It enables users to view data about how long they spend using digital devices such as laptops, mobile phones and tablets. ScreenLife has two general components: a logger that monitors and records when a device is in use, and an interface that provides users with a visual presentation of the logged data. We implemented ScreenLife loggers for four platforms: iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows (meaning it will work on iPhones, iPads, Android phones, Android tablets, Mac computers, and Windows computers). The visual interface can be viewed using the ScreenLife iOS or Android app, or on a web browser on any platform. We conducted a user trial of ScreenLife in mid 2015. We recruited 21 participants and asked them to install the application on their digital devices. The participants had a combined total of 48 devices. The participants were required to keep the application installed for 28 days or more, but were told they could look at the interface as much or little as they want. The ScreenLife dataset consists of: information collected from the ScreenLife loggers; information about when the users accessed the interface; qualitative data from user interviews conducted at the end of the trial; screenshots of the application.

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College / School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
Date Deposited: 07 Jan 2016 13:25
Statement on legal, ethical and access issues:

Full interview transcripts and location data contain identifiable information and are therefore not suitable for sharing.

This research was approved by the University of Glasgow College of Science and Engineering Ethics Committee. Application number 300140096.

URI: https://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/248

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Asadzadeh, P., Chalmers, M., Morrison, A., Rooksby, J. and Rost, M. (2016); User trial of the ScreenLife personal tracking application

University of Glasgow

DOI: 10.5525/gla.researchdata.248

Retrieved: 2024-03-29

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