User clustering in smartphone applications

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2012:177:237-41.

Abstract

In the context of mobile health applications usability is a crucial factor to achieve user acceptance. The successful user interface (UI) design requires a deep understanding of the needs and requirements of the targeted audience. This paper explores the application of the K-Means algorithm on smartphone usage data in order to offer Human Computer Interaction (HCI) specialists a better insight into their user group. Two different feature space representations are introduced and used to identify persona like stereotypes in a real world data set, which was obtained from a public available smartphone application.

MeSH terms

  • Cell Phone / statistics & numerical data*
  • Computers, Handheld / statistics & numerical data*
  • Data Mining / methods*
  • Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / statistics & numerical data
  • Man-Machine Systems*
  • Monitoring, Ambulatory / statistics & numerical data*
  • Telemedicine / instrumentation*
  • Telemetry / statistics & numerical data*