Utilising the co-occurrence of user interface interactions as a risk indicator for smartphone addiction

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Björn Friedrichs, Liam D. Turner, Stuart M. Allen

Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 29 Jul 2025Pervasive Mob. Comput. 2022EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Highlights•Smartphone addiction risk can be assessed via analysis of UI events within sessions.•Term weighted co-occurrence of events outperforms existing measures as an indicator.•Evaluating 65 million UI events within 141,588 sessions over 8 weeks from 64 users.•Users with a high addiction risk only exhibit behaviour in a subset of sessions.