Usage Analysis of Mobile Devices

Mobile phones have evolved from single-purpose communication devices into dynamic tools that support their users in a wide variety of tasks, e.g. playing games, listening to music, sightseeing, and navigating. In this way, the mobile phone has become increasingly analogous to a Swiss Army Knife. With a plan to analyze the mobile device usage among the students, an android application was created to collect both qualitative as well quantitative data for a period of time. Intent of this exercise was to learn trends among the students to better understand the current usage patterns. We adopt both quantitative and qualitative approaches in the analysis.