Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

9-2015

Abstract

Emerging continuous sensing apps introduce new major factors governing phones’ overall battery consumption behaviors: (1) added nontrivial persistent battery drain, and more importantly (2) different battery drain rate depending on the user’s different mobility condition. In this paper, we address the new battery impacting factors significant enough to outdate users’ existing battery model in real life. We explore an initial approach to help users understand the cause and effect between their physical activity and phones’ battery life. To this end, we present Sandra, a novel mobility-aware smartphone battery information advisor, and study its potential to help users redevelop their battery model. We perform an extensive explorative study and deployment for 30 days with 24 users. Our findings reveal what they essentially learned, and in which situations they found Sandra very helpful. We share the lessons learned to help in the design of future mobility-aware battery advisors.

Keywords

Continuous sensing, battery, smartphone, user perception

Discipline

Digital Communications and Networking | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

UbiComp 2015: Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, September 7-11, 2015, Osaka, Japan

First Page

421

Last Page

432

ISBN

9781450335744

Identifier

10.1145/2750858.2807553

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

New York

Additional URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2750858.2807553

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