Mobile Device Usage Recommendation based on User Context Inference Using Embedded Sensors

Cong Shi, Xiaonan Guo, Ting Yu, Yingying Chen, Yucheng Xie, Jian Liu

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Abstract

The proliferation of mobile devices along with their rich functionalities/applications have made people form addictive and potentially harmful usage behaviors. Though this problem has drawn considerable attention, existing solutions (e.g., text notification or setting usage limits) are insufficient and cannot provide timely recommendations or control of inappropriate usage of mobile devices. This paper proposes a generalized context inference framework, which supports timely usage recommendations using low-power sensors in mobile devices Comparing to existing schemes that rely on detection of single type user contexts (e.g., merely on location or activity), our framework derives a much larger-scale of user contexts that characterize the phone usages, especially those causing distraction or leading to dangerous situations. We propose to uniformly describe the general user context with context fundamentals, i.e., physical environments, social situations, and human motions, which are the underlying constituent units of diverse general user contexts. To mitigate the profiling efforts across different environments, devices, and individuals, we develop a deep learning-based architecture to learn transferable representations derived from sensor readings associated with the context fundamentals. Based on the derived context fundamentals, our framework quantifies how likely an inferred user context would lead to distractions/dangerous situations, and provides timely recommendations for mobile device access/usage. Extensive experiments during a period of 7 months demonstrate that the system can achieve 95% accuracy on user context inference while offering the transferability among different environments, devices, and users.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationICCCN 2020 - 29th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728166070
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event29th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 2020 - Honolulu, United States
Duration: Aug 3 2020Aug 6 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN
Volume2020-August
ISSN (Print)1095-2055

Conference

Conference29th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHonolulu
Period8/3/208/6/20

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Software

Keywords

  • Deep Learning
  • Mobile Device Usage

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