Mobile Phone Usage Diary

Many thanks to my good friend who did the cell phone diary for me every day. He is a PHD student and teaches at collage. He uses iPhone with unlimited subscription. I just take three days diary as example. The result looks most of the tasks are still phone function. There are two additional kind of usage: tool and social. Alarm and listening to music take phone as a tool. Originally we have alarm clock and walk man, now they are integrated into phone. The other finding is the iPhone is good to "show off" and invoke some social activity. In my plan, I want to see relationship between using cell phone and context. There is no astonishing findings, but it is great to visualize the true usage pattern.

20090514

0730 wake up alarm (home)

0830 check facebook and app store on iPhone (home)

0930 received a phone call from father (home)

1040 received a phone call from a commercial company (home)

1100 Sync iPhone to PC outlook (home)

1108 Set up laundry alarm on phone (home)

1220 received a phone call from a commercial company (home)

1700 check facebook on iPhone

1710 Play app KiDoWi on iPhone

1830 make a phone call to a friend (home)

1900-1950 Listen music on iPhone (dinner out)

1950 received a phone call from father (home)

2030 received a phone call from elder sister (home)

2300 make a phone call to a friend (home)

20090513

0730 wake up alarm (home)

0820-0840 download an app,(郵政資訊), from app store (Starbucks)

0850 Received a phone call from father (Starbucks)

0900-0920 Received and make few phone calls to co-workers (Starbucks)

1000-1130 Received and make few phone calls to co-workers (home)

1330 Received a phone call from a friend (home)

1430 make a phone call to a friend (home)

1700-1800 Received few phone calls from co-workers (gym)

1700-1830 Listen music on iPhone and workout (gym)

2050-2150 Received few phone calls from co-workers (home)

2300 make a phone call to a friend (home)

20090512

0730 Wake up alarm (home)

0930 Received a phone call from father (work school)

1008 Received a commercial phone call (work school)

1150 Received a phone call from a friend (work school)

1430 Received a phone call from a Student (work school)

1630 make a phone call to a co-worker (work school)

1850-1910 demo iPhone apps to co-workers (work school)

2300 download a app from App Store (Home)

2330 make a phone call to a friend (Home)