Title
From big smartphone data to worldwide research: The Mobile Data Challenge
Abstract
This paper presents an overview of the Mobile Data Challenge (MDC), a large-scale research initiative aimed at generating innovations around smartphone-based research, as well as community-based evaluation of mobile data analysis methodologies. First, we review the Lausanne Data Collection Campaign (LDCC), an initiative to collect unique longitudinal smartphone dataset for the MDC. Then, we introduce the Open and Dedicated Tracks of the MDC, describe the specific datasets used in each of them, discuss the key design and implementation aspects introduced in order to generate privacy-preserving and scientifically relevant mobile data resources for wider use by the research community, and summarize the main research trends found among the 100+ challenge submissions. We finalize by discussing the main lessons learned from the participation of several hundred researchers worldwide in the MDC Tracks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.pmcj.2013.07.014
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
research community,mobile data analysis methodology,worldwide research,large-scale research initiative,big smartphone data,mobile data challenge,lausanne data collection campaign,mdc tracks,smartphone-based research,dedicated tracks,main research trend,main lesson
Data collection,World Wide Web,Computer science,Mobile broadband
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9
6
1574-1192
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
33
1.07
21
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Juha K. Laurila1331.40
Daniel Gatica-Perez24182276.74
Imad Aad31150104.13
Jan O. Blom459142.39
Olivier Bornet5343.68
Trinh Minh Tri Do636518.73
Olivier Dousse71822126.03
Julien Eberle81127.81
Markus Miettinen925217.65