The methods you use to lock your phone can reveal your age, claims a study.
The study conducted by the University of British Columbia was presented last month at ‘CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems’ in Glasgow, Scotland.
“As researchers working to protect smartphones from unauthorised access, we need to first understand how users use their devices,” said Konstantin Beznosov, an electrical and computer engineering professor at UBC who supervised the research. “By tracking actual users during their daily interactions with their device, we now have real-world insights that can be used to inform future smartphone designs,” added Beznosov.
The analysis also showed that older users used their phone less frequently than younger users. For every 10-years interval in age, there was a corresponding 25 per cent decrease in the number of user sessions. (ANI)
