Contextual dissonance: Design bias in sensor-based experience sampling methods

N Lathia, KK Rachuri, C Mascolo… - Proceedings of the 2013 …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and …, 2013dl.acm.org
The Experience Sampling Method (ESM) has been widely used to collect longitudinal
survey data from participants; in this domain, smartphone sensors are now used to augment
the context-awareness of sampling strategies. In this paper, we study the effect of ESM
design choices on the inferences that can be made from participants' sensor data, and on
the variance in survey responses that can be collected. In particular, we answer the
question: are the behavioural inferences that a researcher makes with a trigger-defined …
The Experience Sampling Method (ESM) has been widely used to collect longitudinal survey data from participants; in this domain, smartphone sensors are now used to augment the context-awareness of sampling strategies. In this paper, we study the effect of ESM design choices on the inferences that can be made from participants' sensor data, and on the variance in survey responses that can be collected. In particular, we answer the question: are the behavioural inferences that a researcher makes with a trigger-defined subsample of sensor data biased by the sampling strategy's design? We demonstrate that different single-sensor sampling strategies will result in what we refer to as contextual dissonance: a disagreement in how much different behaviours are represented in the aggregated sensor data. These results are not only relevant to researchers who use the ESM, but call for future work into strategies that may alleviate the biases that we measure.
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