In this paper we explore the use of computer at home. This work is based on the automatic recording of application focus data in natural situation from a wide representative panel of 661 households with 1,434 users at home over 19 months. To process these large-scale data, we build a two- level classification of PC applications describing the w hole PC use. At the household level, we worked on computer usage temporality: we observed two strategies of PC usage reflecting a tension between synchronous and asynchronous usage profiles. At the individual level, we found out that software preferences and usage intensity are rather independent; therefore, we distinguished five specific profiles of users reflecting strong routine behav iors of computer usage at home. These observations tend to show the strength of routine behaviors in computer usage. Copyright 2009 ACM.
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Beauvisage, T. (2009). Computer usage in daily life. In Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings (pp. 575–584). https://doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518791
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