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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.95
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-189906
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2023/18990/
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Zingaro, Donatella ; Bartling, Mona ; Reichenbacher, Tumasch

Exploring Map App Usage Behaviour Through Touchscreen Interactions (Short Paper)

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Abstract

Mobile map apps are rapidly changing the way we live by providing a broad range of services such as mapping, travel support, public transport, and trip-booking. Despite their widespread use, understanding how people use these apps in their everyday lives is still a challenge. In order to design context-aware mobile map apps, it is important to understand mobile map app usage behaviour. In this study, we employed a novel approach of recording touchscreen interactions (taps) on mobile map apps and combined them with users' distances from their homes to capture everyday map app usage. We analysed data from 30 participants recorded between February 2021 and March 2022 and applied two different data-driven analysis techniques to evaluate map apps usage. Our results reveal two distinct tapping signatures: a "home behaviour", characterised by high interactions with map-related apps close to home, and a "travel behaviour", defined by lower interactions scattered over a range of distances. Our findings have important implications for future work in this field and demonstrate the potential of our new approach for understanding mobile map app usage behaviour.

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@InProceedings{zingaro_et_al:LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.95,
  author =	{Zingaro, Donatella and Bartling, Mona and Reichenbacher, Tumasch},
  title =	{{Exploring Map App Usage Behaviour Through Touchscreen Interactions}},
  booktitle =	{12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)},
  pages =	{95:1--95:6},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-288-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{277},
  editor =	{Beecham, Roger and Long, Jed A. and Smith, Dianna and Zhao, Qunshan and Wise, Sarah},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2023/18990},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-189906},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.95},
  annote =	{Keywords: mobile maps, tappigraphy, cluster analysis, archetypal analysis, user-context, map-app usage}
}

Keywords: mobile maps, tappigraphy, cluster analysis, archetypal analysis, user-context, map-app usage
Collection: 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)
Issue Date: 2023
Date of publication: 07.09.2023

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