Publication/Creation Date

September 9 2015

Creators/Contributors

Yuhwan Kim (contributor)
National Research Foundation Of Korea (NRF) (contributor)
Korea Government (MSIP) (contributor)
Seungwoo Kang (creator)
Chulhong Min (creator)
Chungkuk Yoo (creator)
Jeehoon Cha (creator)
Sangwon Choi (creator)
Younghan Oh (creator)
Junehwa Song (creator)
Korea Advanced Institute Of Science And Technology (KAIST) (contributor)
KOREATECH (contributor)

Description

As an emerging wearable device, a number of commercial smartwatches have been released and widely used. While many people have concerns about the battery life of a smartwatch, there is no systematic study for the main usage of a smartwatch, its battery life, or battery discharging and recharging patterns of real smartwatch users. Accordingly, we know little about the current practices for battery use and management of smartwatches. To address this, we conduct an online survey to examine usage behaviors of 59 smartwatch users and an in-depth analysis on the battery usage data from 17 Android Wear smartwatch users. We investigate the unique characteristics of smartwatches’ battery usage, users’ satisfaction and concerns, and recharging patterns through an online survey and data analysis on battery usage.

Augments

Informing, Interacting, Watching, Moving, Analyzing

Technology Keywords

Smartwatches, Wearable Device, Battery, Recharging, Information Interfaces, Human-Battery Interaction

Keywords

Habitualization, Usage, Study, Survey, Participants, Computer Science, Engineering

Marketing Keywords

KOREATECH, School Of Computing, KAIST, Information And Electronics Research Institute, G Watch R, Moto 360, Apple Watch, Android Wear, National Research Foundation Of Korea (NRF), Korea Government (MSIP), ISWC 2015, Smart Watches Panel Session ISWC 2015