Computer usage in daily life

In this paper we explore the use of computer at home. This work is based on the automatic recording of application focus data in natural situation from a wide representative panel of 661 households with 1,434 users at home over 19 months. To process these large-scale data, we build a twolevel classification of PC applications describing the whole PC use. At the household level, we worked on computer usage temporality: we observed two strategies of PC usage reflecting a tension between synchronous and asynchronous usage profiles. At the individual level, we found out that software preferences and usage intensity are rather independent; therefore, we distinguished five specific profiles of users reflecting strong routine behaviors of computer usage at home. These observations tend to show the strength of routine behaviors in computer usage. Author Keywords Computer usage, user generated events, user profiles, representative panel. ACM Classification Keywords H.5.4 Hypertext/Hypermedia: ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Thomas Beauvisage
• Keywords: CHI 2009, Computer Usage, Computer Usage Temporality, Human Computer Interaction, Representative Panel