“Why Sideload?” User Behaviours, Interactions and Accessibility Issues Around Mobile App Installation

Goodwin, C. N.

doi:10.14236/ewic/hci20dc.5

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“…As more devices become vintage and obsolete, a larger and more comprehensive comparative study could be conducted to assess and 'rank' changes in performance and usefulness across multiple systems. Furthermore, a similar study methodology could potentially be ap-plied to other smartphone and tablet devices such as Android devices with "download via another device" replaced by the "sideloading" of apps [11]. This device compared to a similar era Android device has much less developer support and has a higher prob-ability of becoming e-waste sooner as the limitations on usage become more prevalent.…”

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Obsolete or Opportunity? Challenging Perceptions of Device Usefulness

Gupta

2024

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Obsolete devices add to the rising levels of electronic waste, a major environ- mental concern, and a contributing factor to climate change. In recent years, device manufacturers have established environmental commitments and launched initiatives such as supporting the recycling of obsolete devices by making more ways available for consum- ers to safely dispose of their old devices. However, little support is available for individuals who want to continue using legacy or ‘end-of-life’ devices and few studies have explored the usefulness of these older devices, the barriers to their continued use and the associated user experiences. With a human-computer interaction lens, this paper reflects on device usefulness as a function of utility and usability, and on the barriers to continued device use and app installation. Additionally, the paper contributes insights from a sequel study that extends on prior work evaluating app functionality of a ‘vintage’ Apple device with new empirical data on app downloadability and functionality for the same device when newly classified as ‘obsolete’. A total of 230 apps, comprising the top 10 free App Store apps for each of 23 categories, were assessed for downloadability and functionality on an Apple iPad Mini tablet. Although only 20 apps (8.7%) could be downloaded directly onto the newly obsolete device, 143 apps (62.2%) could be downloaded with the use of a different non-legacy device. Of these 163 downloadable apps, 131 apps (com- prising 57% of all 230 apps and 80.4% of the downloadable apps) successfully installed, opened, and functioned. This was a decrease of only 4.3% in functional apps (of the 230 total apps) compared to the performance of the device when previously classified as ‘vin- tage’.

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Obsolete or Opportunity? Challenging Perceptions of Device Usefulness

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2024

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“…As more devices become vintage and obsolete, a larger and more comprehensive comparative study could be conducted to assess and 'rank' changes in performance and usefulness across multiple systems. Furthermore, a similar study methodology could potentially be applied to other smartphone and tablet devices such as Android devices with "download via another device" replaced by the "sideloading" of apps [11]. This device compared to a similar era Android device has much less developer support and has a higher probability of becoming e-waste sooner as the limitations on usage become more prevalent.…”

Section: Study Limitations and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quantifying Device Usefulness - How Useful is an Obsolete Device?

Goodwin,

Woolley,

de Quincey

et al. 2023

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Obsolete devices add to the rising levels of electronic waste, a major environmental concern, and a contributing factor to climate change. In recent years, device manufacturers have established environmental commitments and launched initiatives such as supporting the recycling of obsolete devices by making more ways available for consumers to safely dispose of their old devices. However, little support is available for individuals who want to continue using legacy or 'end-of-life' devices and few studies have explored the usefulness of these older devices, the barriers to their continued use and the associated user experiences. With a human-computer interaction lens, this paper reflects on device usefulness as a function of utility and usability, and on the barriers to continued device use and app installation. Additionally, the paper contributes insights from a sequel study that extends on prior work evaluating app functionality of a 'vintage' Apple device with new empirical data on app downloadability and functionality for the same device when newly classified as 'obsolete'. A total of 230 apps, comprising the top 10 free App Store apps for each of 23 categories, were assessed for downloadability and functionality on an Apple iPad Mini tablet. Although only 20 apps (8.7%) could be downloaded directly onto the newly obsolete device, 143 apps (62.2%) could be downloaded with the use of a different non-legacy device. Of these 163 downloadable apps, 131 apps (comprising 57% of all 230 apps and 80.4% of the downloadable apps) successfully installed, opened, and functioned. This was a decrease of only 4.3% in functional apps (of the 230 total apps) compared to the performance of the device when previously classified as 'vintage'.

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“…A preliminary scoping study of the literature categorized sideloading drivers and motivations as broadly: ideological, behavioural and practical (Goodwin, 2020). However, there have been no previously published studies in the academic literature that have reported empirical findings for sideloading drivers and motivations.…”

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Sideloading: An Exploration of Drivers and Motivations

Goodwin

Woolley

2022

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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Software installation is an important but somewhat neglected aspect of human-computer interaction. The 'sideloading' of smartphone apps, i.e., the downloading and installation of apps from third-party marketplaces and other locations outside 'official' app stores, has become a contentious issue in recent times. However, there has been little exploration of sideloading drivers and motivations in the academic literature. This paper contributes insights on sideloading, practices and preferences from a questionnaire completed by 102 participants, comprising 48 computer science participants and 64 participants from selected Reddit communities relevant to smartphone software and apps, sideloading, jailbreaking and legacy device use. 76.5% of respondents (45.9% computer science and 93.8% Reddit) reported experience of sideloading apps from alternative locations to the 'official' app stores. App availability issues were reported as the main motivating factors and both groups of participants expressed support for related themes including the right to repair, reducing e-waste, and making use of end-of-life devices.

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“Why Sideload?” User Behaviours, Interactions and Accessibility Issues Around Mobile App Installation

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Obsolete or Opportunity? Challenging Perceptions of Device Usefulness

Obsolete or Opportunity? Challenging Perceptions of Device Usefulness

Quantifying Device Usefulness - How Useful is an Obsolete Device?

Sideloading: An Exploration of Drivers and Motivations

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