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Investigating Correlations Between Usage of Communication Apps and Instant Messenger and a Smartphone User’s Extraversion

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Smartphones are widely used and an integral part of our everyday lives. They are a main means for communication with friends and family. Due to the manifoldness of instant messengers, it is possible to chat or talk to others easily, anytime and anywhere. However, smartphone users’ differ among each others: while some prefer to talk to others and share their thoughts on social media, others prefer privacy and restrict interaction to a necessary minimum. We want to investigate correlations between the user’s extraversion personality trait and their use of communication apps and instant messenger. Within a user study with 23 participants over the course of up to 28 days, we collected data about call and SMS history as well as notification reception and app usage. Our results revealed statistically significant correlations between call duration—overall, but also for outgoing or incoming calls—and number of notifications per day and different levels of extraversion. Future research might include the analysis of rich media notifications, notification content, social media activity, but also considering formality of a notification and type of interlocutor.

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    Anja Exler, Tobias Hornberger & Michael Beigl

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Exler, A., Hornberger, T., Beigl, M. (2021). Investigating Correlations Between Usage of Communication Apps and Instant Messenger and a Smartphone User’s Extraversion. In: Ahad, M.A.R., Inoue, S., Roggen, D., Fujinami, K. (eds) Activity and Behavior Computing. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 204. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8944-7_14

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