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. 2018 Dec 11;49(4):1517–1530. doi: 10.1007/s10803-018-3798-0

Table 6.

Average time spent in technology-mediated activities by device

Mean time* (n with access) Preschool (n = 134) Children (n = 160) Teenagers (n = 38) Young adults (n = 14) Adults (n = 42)
iPad 80.8 (68) 80.1 (98) 93.8 (18) 95.4 (11) 65 (18)
Tablet 48.1 (54) 48.1 (55) 67.7 (9) 144 (3) 82.3 (14)
iPhone 21.7 (34) 64.3 (57) 103.8 (13) 54 (5) 37.5 (8)
Smartphone 12.5 (44) 32.2 (61) 40.8 (12) 32 (5) 16 (15)
Blackberry 10 (1) 12.7 (11) 0 (2) 360 (1) 0 (0)
PC 56.2 (91) 80.9 (119) 118.4 (25) 80 (11) 38.3 (24)
Apple Mac 36 (16) 69.6 (28) 18 (16) 2 (3) 24.3 (12)
Wii 17.6 (52) 15.1 (84) 13.1 (16) 60 (3) 3.3 (12)
PlayStation 27.2 (30) 39.8 (44) 30 (8) 44.4 (9) 7.1 (7)
Nintendo DS 11.1 (51) 26.7 (78) 12.1 (14) 13.3 (6) 4.1 (12)
Xbox 32.3 (17) 88.37 (37) 28.5 (7) 25 (2) 60 (6)
Kinect 10 (8) 0 (11) 3.33 (3) 0 (0) 0 (4)

*In minutes per day. Note that each estimate draws on a different underlying sample, since different numbers of respondents had access to each device type, and so data have varying levels of reliability