Abstract
While smartphone addiction is becoming a recent concern with the exponential increase in the number of smartphone users, it is difficult to predict problematic smartphone users based on the usage characteristics of individual smartphone users. This study aimed to explore the possibility of predicting smartphone addiction level with mobile phone log data. By Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA), 29,712 respondents completed the Smartphone Addiction Scale developed in 2017. Integrating basic personal characteristics and smartphone usage information, the data were analyzed using machine learning techniques (decision tree, random forest, and Xgboost) in addition to hypothesis tests. In total, 27 variables were employed to predict smartphone addiction and the accuracy rate was the highest for the random forest (82.59%) model and the lowest for the decision tree model (74.56%). The results showed that users’ general information, such as age group, job classification, and sex did not contribute much to predicting their smartphone addiction level. The study can provide directions for future work on the detection of smartphone addiction with log-data, which suggests that more detailed smartphone’s log-data will enable more accurate results.
Highlights
With the rapid increase in smartphone penetration, they are becoming a part of our daily lives
According to a survey of 29,712 smartphone users conducted by Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA) in 2017, the high-risk smartphone addiction rate was about 18.6% (7860), which increased by about 1% since the previous year [6]
Our research is motivated by the lack of results and our goal is to identify the predictors of smartphone addiction
Summary
With the rapid increase in smartphone penetration, they are becoming a part of our daily lives. Due to the various functions and convenience of smartphones, the number of users worldwide was more than 1.08 billion in early 2012, and continues to increase exponentially [1]. In the UK, 68% of adults were reported to own a smartphone, and the number of smartphone users in South Korea exceeded 39 million in early 2012 [2,3]. This trend is observed worldwide [4,5]. According to a survey of 29,712 smartphone users conducted by Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA) in 2017, the high-risk smartphone addiction rate was about 18.6% (7860), which increased by about 1% since the previous year [6]. The proportion of high-risk smartphone usage groups by age in the past two years increased from 6.7% to 19.1% among infants, the biggest increase among all age groups, followed by adults, with an increase from 3.9% to 17.4%
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