TY - GEN
T1 - Powerlet
T2 - 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2014
AU - Jung, Wonwoo
AU - Chon, Yohan
AU - Kim, Dongwon
AU - Cha, Hojung
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - A smartphone battery interface should provide ener-gy-related information efficiently with high accuracy be-cause it is the basis for user actions on battery consumption. Previous studies have mainly focused on battery information per se, but the effectiveness of user interaction with the interface has barely been studied. In this paper, we first discuss the results of a survey on different types of ener-gy-related information and features to investigate what users want in terms of battery consumption for smartphones. We then introduce Powerlet, which is a new battery interface that attempts to actively interact with users to provide battery usage information. We validated the efficiency of Powerlet with real users' experiences derived over a seven-week study period. We found that the users actively managed and changed their phone usage based on the energy-related in-formation provided by Powerlet. With the Powerlet active battery interface, participants reduced daily energy con-sumption by 8.2% on average.
AB - A smartphone battery interface should provide ener-gy-related information efficiently with high accuracy be-cause it is the basis for user actions on battery consumption. Previous studies have mainly focused on battery information per se, but the effectiveness of user interaction with the interface has barely been studied. In this paper, we first discuss the results of a survey on different types of ener-gy-related information and features to investigate what users want in terms of battery consumption for smartphones. We then introduce Powerlet, which is a new battery interface that attempts to actively interact with users to provide battery usage information. We validated the efficiency of Powerlet with real users' experiences derived over a seven-week study period. We found that the users actively managed and changed their phone usage based on the energy-related in-formation provided by Powerlet. With the Powerlet active battery interface, participants reduced daily energy con-sumption by 8.2% on average.
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U2 - 10.1145/2632048.2636085
DO - 10.1145/2632048.2636085
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84908569735
T3 - UbiComp 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
SP - 45
EP - 56
BT - UbiComp 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 13 September 2014 through 17 September 2014
ER -