Table 1 Various types of static time segments used in different applications
From: Context-aware rule learning from smartphone data: survey, challenges and future directions
Time interval type | Number of segments | Used time interval and segment details | References |
|---|---|---|---|
Equal | 3 | Morning [7:00–12:00], afternoon [13:00–18:00] and evening [19:00–24:00] | Song et al. [46] |
Equal | 3 | [0:00–7:59], [8:00–15:59] and [16:00–23:59] | Rawassizadeh et al. [47] |
Equal | 4 | Morning [6:00–12:00], afternoon [12:00–18:00], evening [18:00–24:00] and night [0:00–6:00] | Mukherji et al. [48] |
Equal | 4 | Morning [6:00–12:00], afternoon [12:00–18:00], evening [18:00–24:00] and night [0:00–6:00] | Bayir et al. [49] |
Equal | 4 | Morning, afternoon, evening and night | Paireekreng et al. [41] |
Equal | 4 | Morning [6:00–11:59], day [12:00–17:59], evening [18:00–23:59], overnight [0:00–5:59] | Jayarajah et al. [50] |
Equal | 4 | Night [0:00–6:00 a.m.], morning [6:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.], afternoon [12:00–6:00 p.m.], and evening [6:00 p.m.–0:00 a.m.] | Do et al. [51] |
Unequal | 3 | Morning (beginning at 6:00 a.m. and ending at noon), afternoon (ending at 6:00 p.m.), night (all remaining hours) | Xu et al. [52] |
Unequal | 4 | Morning [6:00–12:00], afternoon [12:00–16:00], evening [16:00–20:00] and night [20:00–24:00 and 0:00–6:00] | Mehrotra et al. [7] |
Unequal | 5 | Morning [7:00–11:00], noon [11:00–14:00], afternoon [14:00–18:00] and so on | Zhu et al. [9] |
Unequal | 5 | Morning, forenoon, afternoon, evening, and night | Oulasvirta et al. [53] |
Unequal | 5 | Morning [7:00–11:00], noon [11:00–14:00], afternoon [14:00–18:00], evening [18:00–21:00], and night [21:00–Next day 7:00] | Yu et al. [54] |
Unequal | > 5 | Early morning, morning, late morning, midnight and so on | Naboulsi et al. [55] |
Unequal | > 5 | Early morning, morning, late morning, midnight and so on | Dashdorj et al. [56] |
Unequal | > 5 | Early morning, morning, late morning, midnight and so on | Shin et al. [57] |
Unequal | 8 | S1[0:00–7:00 a.m.], S2[7:00–9:00 a.m.], S3[9:00–11:00 a.m.], S4[11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.], S5[2:00–5:00 p.m.], S6[5:00–7:00 p.m.], S7[7:00–9:00 p.m.] and S8[9:00 p.m.–12:00 a.m.] | Farrahi et al. [58] |