Mobile App User Survey

A worldwide survey of mobile app user behaviour involving more than 10,000 participants and 15 countries.

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Questionnaire

Preview the actual online questionnaire.

Download a Word version of the original online questionnaire.

View questionnaire in 10 languages.

View Ten Item Personality Measure (TIPI) in 10 languages.

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Results

A summary of the results can be found here.

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Dataset

Download dataset. [6.7MB]

Download a coded version of the questionnaire.

If you use this dataset, please cite:

Soo Ling Lim, Peter J. Bentley, Natalie Kanakam, Fuyuki Ishikawa, and Shinichi Honiden (2015). Investigating Country Differences in Mobile App User Behavior and Challenges for Software Engineering. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), vol 41 issue 1, pp 40-64.

For enquiries about the dataset, email s.lim@cs.ucl.ac.uk

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Publication

Soo Ling Lim, Peter J. Bentley, Natalie Kanakam, Fuyuki Ishikawa, and Shinichi Honiden (2015). Investigating Country Differences in Mobile App User Behavior and Challenges for Software Engineering. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), vol 41 issue 1, pp 40-64.

Paper Supplementary Information: Descriptive results, Correlation results, Chi square test and odds ratio results

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Project Members

Dr Soo Ling Lim, Research Associate at the Department of Computer Science, University College London. Soo Ling has a PhD in computer science and engineering.

Dr Natalie Kanakam, Research Associate at the Research Department of Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology, University College London. Natalie has a PhD in psychology.

Prof. Peter J. Bentley, Honorary Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University College London. Peter has a PhD in computer science. He also develops mobile apps. One of his iPhone apps, iStethoscope Pro, has been downloaded more than 3 million times.

Prof. Fuyuki Ishikawa, Associate Professor at the Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, National Institute of Informatics, Japan. Fuyuki has a PhD in information science and technology from the University of Tokyo.

Prof. Shinichi Honiden, Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Director, Center for Global Research in Advanced Software Science and Engineering (GRACE Center), and Visiting Professor at University College London.