Collecting experimental data from multiple sensing devices has just recently become quite
popular in behavioral and social sciences. Among existing devices, mobile phones stand …

Mobile sensing is a methodological approach that leverages digital devices and platforms to
collect data about human behavior. This chapter provides a starting point for researchers …

Mobile sensing—that is, the ability to unobtrusively collect sensor data from built-in phone
and attached wearable sensors—have proven to be a powerful approach to understanding …

Gathering representative data using mobile sensing to answer research questions is
becoming increasingly popular, driven by growing ubiquity and sensing capabilities of …

Smartphone-based sensing is becoming a convenient way to collect data in science,
especially in environmental research. Recent studies that use smartphone sensing methods …

The study Smartphone Sensing Panel Study aims to create a benchmark dataset for the
scientific community, including three data collection modalities:(1) smartphone sensing (2) …

Mobile and wearable devices are equipped with an array of embedded digital sensors that
produce continuous steams of digital trace data. These now effectively ubiquitous digital …

Today's ubiquitous presence of sensors provides a large amount of data which can be
analyzed to study human behavior. The last few years saw the birth and diffusion of a new …

The aim of this chapter is to illustrate a variety of sensor devices and point out their potential
for researchers, especially for social scientists. We propose that these devices add value for …

The efforts to improve user experience and expand the services offered through mobile
phones over the past few years have led to new ways of recollecting data and inferring …