LiveLabs: Building In-Situ Mobile Sensing & Behavioural Experimentation TestBeds

In this paper, we present LiveLabs, a first-of-its-kind testbed that is deployed across a university campus, convention centre, and resort island and collects real-time attributes such as location, group context etc., from hundreds of opt-in participants. These venues, data, and participants are then made available for running rich human-centric behavioural experiments that could test new mobile sensing infrastructure, applications, analytics, or more social-science type hypotheses that influence and then observe actual user behaviour. We share case studies of how researchers from around the world have and are using LiveLabs, and our experiences and lessons learned from building, maintaining, and expanding Live-Labs over the last three years.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  ACM SIGMOBILE International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services

• Publication date

  2016-06-20

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1145/2906388.2906400
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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