Insights gained from smartphone logging data collection

11 pages•Published: June 16, 2024

Fallo Khanye, Renette Blignaut, Julia Keddie, Humphrey Brydon, Lieven De Marez, Koen Ponnet and Simon Perneel

Abstract

The growth of digital technology usage by governments and societies has opened opportunities and new research within the digital space. It has become imperative to better understand the accessibility and utilisation of available digital technologies by all communities. This phenomenon is called digital inclusion, and we will be using smartphones as our digital tool. There is no known study of digital inclusion that links perceived and actual smartphone behaviour in South Africa. Our study aims to explore the benefits of linking perceived and actual smartphone behaviour in a digital inclusion study in South Africa. We conducted an initial study to ensure the technical aspects of the data collection tool before we executed the official pilot study. This study will share interesting smartphone usage insights measured by the mobileDNA application, which was used for the first time in a South African context. We will report on difficulties encountered, successes achieved, and proposed improvements to enhance the data collection for future studies to enhance digital inclusion in a South African context.

Keyphrases: digital inclusion, mobiledna, smartphone usage

In: Hossana Twinomurinzi, Nkosikhona Theoren Msweli, Sibukele Gumbo, Tendani Mawela, Emmanuel Mtsweni, Peter Mkhize and Ernest Mnkandla (editors). Proceedings of the NEMISA Digital Skills Summit and Colloquium 2024, vol 6, pages 106-116.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/SfP4
	https://doi.org/10.29007/kw5p

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{NEMISADigitalSkills2024:Insights_gained_from_smartphone,
  author    = {Fallo Khanye and Renette Blignaut and Julia Keddie and Humphrey Brydon and Lieven De Marez and Koen Ponnet and Simon Perneel},
  title     = {Insights gained from smartphone logging data collection},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the NEMISA Digital Skills Summit and Colloquium 2024},
  editor    = {Hossana Twinomurinzi and Nkosikhona Theoren Msweli and Sibukele Gumbo and Tendani Mawela and Emmanuel Mtsweni and Peter Mkhize and Ernest Mnkandla},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Education Science},
  volume    = {6},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2306},
  url       = {/publications/paper/SfP4},
  doi       = {10.29007/kw5p},
  pages     = {106-116},
  year      = {2024}}

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