Description of software-modified phone (SMP) users and calls recorded by the SMPs by study centre
Study centre | Dates of SMP use | No of users | No of calls | No of operators | No of users per operator | No of days of SMP use | No of calls per day | Call duration (minutes) | |
Min–max | Mean | Min–max | Mean | Mean | |||||
Australia | Nov 03–Jun 04 | 48 | 6782 | 1 | 48 | 32.8 | 17–49 | 4.5 | 1.71 |
Canada | Jan–Jul 05 | 37 | 3395 | 2 | 13–24 | 31.8 | 12–48 | 3.2 | 2.08 |
Denmark | Aug–Oct 03 | 46 | 3458 | 5 | 2–16 | 29.1 | 12–41 | 2.5 | 1.80 |
Finland | Feb–Mar 02 | 46 | 4581 | 4 | 1–29 | 27.2 | 11–38 | 3.9 | 2.80 |
France | Jan–May 01 | 24 | 3796 | 3 | 3–11 | 25.4 | 13–39 | 6.7 | 1.88 |
Germany | Nov–Dec 01 | 49 | 3023 | 2 | 22–27 | 25.8 | 8–42 | 2.7 | 1.51 |
Israel | Aug–Dec 02 | 41 | 15058 | 1 | 41 | 34.2 | 9–50 | 10.9 | 1.84 |
Italy | Feb–Mar 03 | 53 | 8049 | 3 | 16–20 | 27.6 | 19–33 | 5.4 | 1.67 |
New Zealand | Nov 03–Mar 04 | 27 | 2466 | 1 | 27 | 37.3 | 22–72 | 2.5 | 1.61 |
Norway | Sept–Nov 04 | 48 | 3946 | 3 | 2–24 | 31.3 | 14–52 | 2.7 | 2.42 |
Sweden | Apr–May 03 | 46 | 5461 | 5 | 1–24 | 27.3 | 8–42 | 4.5 | 1.78 |
UK North 1* | Feb–Mar 01 | 17 | 607 | 1 | 17 | 20.3 | 9–32 | 1.6 | 2.45 |
UK North 2 | Apr–Jul 03 | 34 | 2529 | 5 | 3–14 | 27.0 | 10–35 | 2.9 | 2.17 |
Total | 516 | 63151 | 36 | 1–48 | 29.3 | 8–72 | 4.2 | 1.96 |
*In the 2001 study in the UK, problems with the phones’ software led to part of the collected data being lost, resulting in few included subjects; the study was therefore repeated in 2003 with a different set of volunteers.