User profiling from their use of smartphone applications: A survey

S Zhao, S Li, J Ramos, Z Luo, Z Jiang, AK Dey… - Pervasive and Mobile …, 2019 - Elsevier
The number and popularity of smartphone applications is rising dramatically. Users install
and use applications depending on their needs and interests. Applications on smartphones …

Enhancing mobile app user understanding and marketing with heterogeneous crowdsourced data: A review

B Guo, Y Ouyang, T Guo, L Cao, Z Yu - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The mobile app market has been surging in recent years. It has some key differentiating
characteristics which make it different from traditional markets. To enhance mobile app …

What and how long: Prediction of mobile app engagement

Y Tian, K Zhou, D Pelleg - ACM Transactions on Information Systems …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
User engagement is crucial to the long-term success of a mobile app. Several metrics, such
as dwell time, have been used for measuring user engagement. However, how to effectively …

An exploratory analysis of travel-related WeChat mini program usage: affordance theory perspective

A Cheng, G Ren, T Hong, K Nam, C Koo - Information and Communication …, 2019 - Springer
A WeChat mini program is an application that users can use without downloading and
installing. After it was officially released in 2017, many travel enterprises have launched their …

Cohort modeling based app category usage prediction

Y Tian, K Zhou, M Lalmas, Y Liu, D Pelleg - Proceedings of the 28th ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Smartphones utilize context signals, such as time and location, to predict users' app usage
tailored to individual users. To be effective, such personalization relies on access to …

Investigating smartphone user differences in their application usage behaviors: an empirical study

S Zhao, F Xu, Y Xu, X Ma, Z Luo, S Li, A Dey… - CCF Transactions on …, 2019 - Springer
Smartphone applications (Abbr. apps) have become an indispensable part in our everyday
lives. Users determine what apps to use depending on their personal needs and interests …

[PDF][PDF] The WeChat mini program for smart tourism

A Cheng, G Ren, T Hong, C Koo - Asia Pacific Journal of …, 2019 - researchgate.net
The WeChat mini program is an application embedded in WeChat that users can use
without downloading and installing. After it was officially released in 2017, many travel …

Adapting mobile user interfaces based on users' application usage behaviours

H Dammak, M Riahi, F Moussa - International Journal of …, 2023 - inderscienceonline.com
Understanding how users use smartphones can improve their quality of life and user
experience and aid in the development of better smartphones. Manufacturers and …

Usability of disaster apps: understanding the perspectives of the public as end-users: a dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of …

ML Tan - 2020 - mro.massey.ac.nz
Multiple smartphone applications (apps) exist that can enhance the public's resilience to
disasters. Despite the capabilities of these apps, they can only be effective if users find them …

Network environment-based dynamic application recommendation

X Zhang, K Xu, Z Qiao - US Patent 11,374,840, 2022 - Google Patents
Methods and systems for providing secure file sharing are described herein. A computing
device may determine a maximum available bandwidth for a user device. The computing …