Juha Kalevi Laurila

From big smartphone data to worldwide research: The Mobile Data Challenge

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.

Large-Scale Participatory Urban Sensing: A Fad or Reality?

This paper describes the topic and participants of the MDM 2013 panel.

Editorial: Special Issue on the Mobile Data Challenge

Reference EPFL-ARTICLE-195468doi:10.1016/j.pmcj.2013.10.001View record in Web of Science Record created on 2014-01-09, modified on 2017-05-10