Incorporating sensory data collected on mobile devices into user experience analysis

Planning for usability and a great user experience is crucial when developing applications for touch-screen mobile devices. A good user experience enables users to use the devices and the applications intuitively, steepening the learning curve. But since these devices are new relative to PC-s, developers do not have a generally accepted toolset or knowledge-base to analyze or take into consideration user habits. The goal of this paper is to address this problem. First we define some fundamental criteria for a framework that can help developers collect data automatically. After having established the theoretical tenets, we present an implementation for the Windows 8 mobile platform, and finally, we analyze the data collected from a consumer application for patterns and useful conclusions which can serve as the basis of a knowledgebase holding general guidelines about developing applications for these devices.