Quantifying the Persistence of Daily Routines

Nguyen Luong; Talayeh Aledavood

arxiv: 2604.23638 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-26 · 💻 cs.HC · cs.CY

Quantifying the Persistence of Daily Routines

Nguyen Luong , Talayeh Aledavood This is my paper

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keywords daily routinesroutine persistencepassive sensingbehavioral fingerprintsactivity patternslongitudinal studiesperson-specific distributions

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The pith

Daily life resolves into roughly eight routine types, with each person maintaining a stable, distinctive distribution over them.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces a framework for modeling sequences of days as transitions among a small number of routine types identified from shared patterns of sleep, movement, and device use. It tests whether these types produce person-specific time allocations and day-to-day transitions that remain more similar within individuals than between them. Validation on passive sensing data from 1,086 people across 153,000 days in three studies shows the patterns hold steady over weeks to months and across varied populations. This establishes routines as measurable behavioral fingerprints rather than random daily variation.

Core claim

We model consecutive days in one's life as a sequence of different types of typical days, i.e. routines. Characterizing each day through patterns of activities common among all people - sleep, movement, and device use - we identify a small set of routine types that capture the dominant structure of everyday behavior. We then test whether individuals maintain stable, person-specific distributions over these types and transition between them in characteristic ways. Validating this framework with passive sensing data from 1,086 participants across 153,000 person-days in three longitudinal studies, we find that daily life typically resolves into approximately eight routine types and each person

What carries the argument

A clustering framework that groups days into routine types from sleep, movement, and device-use patterns, then measures individual distributions and transition probabilities over those types.

If this is right

Routine patterns function as stable, person-specific behavioral fingerprints.
Both time spent in each routine type and the probabilities of moving between types are more consistent within one person than across different people.
These patterns remain stable across observation periods of weeks to months and across groups differing in age, occupation, and health status.
Routine persistence shows modest links to personality traits such as conscientiousness but little variation by age or gender.
The approach supports applications in personalized health monitoring.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

Routine distributions could serve as a low-burden longitudinal signal for detecting changes in health or behavior without requiring active reporting.
The same clustering approach might be applied to other passive data streams, such as location or communication logs, to test whether additional routine dimensions emerge.
If the eight-type structure proves robust, it could reduce the dimensionality of daily-behavior data for large-scale studies while preserving individual differences.

Load-bearing premise

That clustering days by sleep, movement, and device use patterns isolates meaningful routine types that reflect the main structure of daily behavior rather than artifacts of the data or the clustering method itself.

What would settle it

If randomly shuffling the sequence of days within each person's record produced within-person similarity scores as high as the original analysis, or if a different number of clusters eliminated the within-person versus between-person difference, the claim of stable person-specific routine distributions would not hold.

read the original abstract

Daily life is structured by recurring routines that coordinate biological rhythms with social and occupational demands. Individual differences in work schedules, family obligations, and social commitments produce distinctive ways of organizing activities throughout the day. Do people have typical days with certain arrangement of activities? How often do these typical days or routines occur and does this differ from person to person? We introduce a framework for quantifying such recurring routines, their persistence over time and their distinctiveness for different people. We model consecutive days in one's life as a sequence of different types of typical days, i.e. routines. Characterizing each day through patterns of activities common among all people - sleep, movement, and device use - we identify a small set of routine types that capture the dominant structure of everyday behavior. We then test whether individuals maintain stable, person-specific distributions over these types and transition between them in characteristic ways. Validating this framework with passive sensing data from 1,086 participants across 153,000 person-days in three longitudinal studies, we find that daily life typically resolves into approximately eight routine types and each person maintains a characteristic distribution over these types. Both the time allocation across routine types and the day-to-day transition dynamics are substantially more similar within individuals than between them, remaining stable across observation windows spanning weeks to months and across populations differing in age, occupation, and health status. Routine persistence shows modest associations with personality traits such as conscientiousness, but is broadly similar across age and gender. Our findings establish routine patterns as stable, person-specific behavioral fingerprints with applications in personalized health monitoring.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

The paper gives a workable clustering method to measure how stable people's daily routines are from phone sensors and reports clear within-person consistency, but the global clustering step needs a null model to confirm it's not partly mechanical.

read the letter

The main point here is a framework that turns passive sensor streams into a small set of routine types and then tracks how consistently each person sticks to their own mix of those types day after day. They find roughly eight types capture most of the structure in sleep, movement, and device use, and that both the time spent in each type and the switches between them are far more similar inside one person than across people. This pattern holds over weeks to months and across different age, job, and health groups, with only weak ties to personality measures like conscientiousness. The scale is the real asset: 1,086 participants and 153,000 person-days from three studies give the claims some weight. Treating days as sequences rather than simple averages is a reasonable step beyond prior average-activity work. The result is positioned for health-monitoring uses, which fits the data they have. The soft spot is exactly the one the stress-test note flags. Because the clustering runs on the pooled corpus, any systematic per-person differences in the raw features will automatically produce higher within-person similarity in the derived types. Without a day-shuffle null or a generative baseline that keeps marginals but removes individual consistency, it is hard to know how much of the reported stability is real versus an artifact of the method. The abstract does not mention such a check, and the choice of eight types plus the exact feature set also need explicit justification and sensitivity tests in the full text. If those controls are present and clean, the central claim holds up better. This is the kind of paper that belongs in a computational social science or mobile sensing reading group. It is aimed at people who already work with longitudinal sensor data and want a practical way to quantify routine persistence. The dataset and framing are substantial enough that a serious editor should send it for peer review rather than desk-reject it, with the expectation that referees will press on the null-model and cluster-validation details.

Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces a data-driven framework for identifying recurring daily routines from passive sensing data (sleep, movement, device use patterns). It clusters ~153,000 person-days from 1,086 participants across three longitudinal studies into approximately eight routine types, then demonstrates that individuals exhibit stable, person-specific distributions over these types and characteristic day-to-day transition dynamics. These within-person similarities are reported to exceed between-person similarities, remain stable over weeks to months, and show modest links to traits like conscientiousness, positioning routines as behavioral fingerprints for applications in personalized health monitoring.

Significance. If the central claims hold after addressing methodological gaps, the work offers a scalable, passive-sensing approach to quantifying stable individual differences in daily structure with potential for health monitoring and behavioral science. The large, multi-study dataset (1,086 participants, 153k person-days) and longitudinal design are strengths that could support reproducible findings if accompanied by open code and explicit null-model tests.

major comments (3)

[Methods] Methods section: The manuscript provides no details on the clustering algorithm, feature engineering/selection from sleep/movement/device signals, or the procedure for selecting the number of routine types (~8). These choices are load-bearing for the claim that the clusters capture 'dominant structure of everyday behavior' and for all downstream within- vs. between-person comparisons.
[Results] Results section (and associated figures/tables on distributions/transitions): No null model, permutation baseline, or generative simulation is described that preserves global marginal feature distributions while destroying individual consistency. Without this, the reported higher within-person similarity in routine allocations and transitions could be an artifact of performing a single global clustering on pooled data rather than evidence of stable personal routines.
[Statistical analysis] Statistical analysis subsection: The methods for quantifying and testing within- vs. between-person similarity (e.g., distance metrics on distributions, transition matrices, statistical controls for observation length, age, occupation, or health status) are not specified. This prevents assessment of whether the 'substantially more similar within individuals' claim is robust to confounds.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] Abstract and introduction: The phrase 'approximately eight routine types' should be tied to a specific table or figure showing the model-selection criterion (e.g., silhouette score, elbow plot) rather than left as an approximate statement.
[Figures] Figure captions and results text: Clarify whether routine-type labels are purely data-driven or post-hoc interpreted; if the latter, state the interpretation criteria explicitly.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive and detailed feedback on our manuscript. The comments highlight important areas for improving methodological transparency and robustness. We address each major comment point by point below. The revised manuscript will incorporate expanded descriptions, new analyses, and clarifications to strengthen the presentation of our framework and findings.

read point-by-point responses

Referee: [Methods] Methods section: The manuscript provides no details on the clustering algorithm, feature engineering/selection from sleep/movement/device signals, or the procedure for selecting the number of routine types (~8). These choices are load-bearing for the claim that the clusters capture 'dominant structure of everyday behavior' and for all downstream within- vs. between-person comparisons.

Authors: We agree that additional detail is needed for reproducibility. In the revised Methods section, we will specify the feature engineering process (extracting 12 normalized features including sleep duration and timing, movement intensity percentiles, and device interaction counts from the passive sensing streams), the clustering algorithm (k-means with cosine similarity on z-scored features), and the cluster number selection (elbow method, silhouette analysis, and stability across random seeds, all converging on 8 types). We will also add pseudocode and a supplementary table defining each feature. revision: yes
Referee: [Results] Results section (and associated figures/tables on distributions/transitions): No null model, permutation baseline, or generative simulation is described that preserves global marginal feature distributions while destroying individual consistency. Without this, the reported higher within-person similarity in routine allocations and transitions could be an artifact of performing a single global clustering on pooled data rather than evidence of stable personal routines.

Authors: This is a fair methodological concern. We have conducted a new permutation-based null model analysis for the revision: for each participant, we randomly reassign routine labels to their days while preserving the global marginal distribution of routine types. Under this null, within-person similarity in distributions and transitions drops significantly (p < 0.001 via paired tests), confirming that the observed person-specific patterns exceed what global clustering alone would produce. We will add this analysis, associated statistics, and a supplementary figure to the Results. revision: yes
Referee: [Statistical analysis] Statistical analysis subsection: The methods for quantifying and testing within- vs. between-person similarity (e.g., distance metrics on distributions, transition matrices, statistical controls for observation length, age, occupation, or health status) are not specified. This prevents assessment of whether the 'substantially more similar within individuals' claim is robust to confounds.

Authors: We acknowledge the need for explicit specification. The revised Statistical analysis subsection will detail: (1) similarity metrics (Jensen-Shannon divergence for routine distributions; Frobenius norm for transition matrices); (2) testing procedure (linear mixed-effects models with within/between-person contrast as fixed effect, participant as random effect); and (3) confound controls (including observation length, age, occupation, and health status as covariates, with robustness checks via propensity score matching). Effect sizes and confidence intervals will be reported. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: empirical clustering followed by independent similarity measurements.

full rationale

The paper's core chain is: (1) pool all days across participants and cluster on sleep/movement/device features to obtain ~8 routine types; (2) for each person compute their empirical distribution over those types and their day-to-day transition matrix; (3) compare within-person vs. between-person similarity on those quantities. None of these steps is self-definitional, a fitted parameter renamed as prediction, or dependent on a load-bearing self-citation. The clustering is performed once on the pooled corpus; the subsequent within/between comparisons are direct empirical statistics on the resulting labels and do not feed back into the cluster definitions. No equations or uniqueness theorems are invoked that reduce the reported persistence to the input data by construction. The absence of a null model is a validity concern, not a circularity issue.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The framework depends on the assumption that activity patterns from passive sensing define meaningful routines and on choices in clustering that are not detailed in the abstract.

free parameters (1)

number of routine types
Set to approximately eight to capture dominant structure; value appears chosen to fit the data rather than derived from first principles.

axioms (1)

domain assumption Patterns of sleep, movement, and device use capture the dominant structure of everyday behavior
Explicitly stated as the basis for characterizing each day in the abstract.

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