Tappigraphy: continuous ambulatory assessment and analysis of in-situ map app use behaviour

While map apps on smartphones are abundant, their everyday usage is still an open empirical research question. With tappigraphy – the quantification of smartphone touchscreen interactions we aimed to capture continuous data stream behavioural human-map app patterns. The current study introduces a first analysis distribution in 211 remotely observed users, accumulating total 42 days tap data. We detail requirements, setup, and collection understand how much, when, for long, people use mobile daily lives. Supporting prior research, find that average only sparsely used, compared other apps. longitudinal fluctuations not random partly governed by general weekly human behaviour cycles. Smartphone session duration including can be clearly distinguished from sessions without any indicating distinct temporal footprint surrounding use. transfer approach context, see promising avenue provide communities interested underlying mechanisms continuous, in-situ momentary assessment method.