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For the recent 5-6 years, the ratio of smart phone users in South Korea has increased to over 65% of cellularsubscribers and half of all population. While smartphones have given enormous convenience to our lives,pathological use of smartphones has brought a new mental health concern among the community. Therefore,huge interest sheds on the studies on the cause analysis and treatment of smartphone addiction. However, thetraditional clinic approach based survey and interview has serious drawbacks of its subjectivity and inability ofcontinual monitoring and treatment. In this paper, SAMS (smartphone addiction management system) ispresented, which monitors the application usage pattern, provides statistical analysis, and policy-based usageintervention. A trail test is performed for checking he reliability and efficacy of SAMS in smartphone addictionresearch, and some analysis on the collected data are done: daily use count, not daily use time, has stronginfluence on smartphone addiction: CC=0.62 and CC =0.00 for the correlation coefficients of counts and timeswith total survey score, and p = 0.047 and p = 0.507 for t-test analysis of contrast group.