Context Data Categories and Privacy Model for Mobile Data Collection Apps

Context-aware applications stemming from diverse fields like mobile health, recommender systems, and mobile commerce potentially benefit from knowing aspects of the user’s personality. As filling out personality questionnaires is tedious, we propose the prediction of the user’s personality from smartphone sensor and usage data. In order to collect data for researching the relationship between smartphone … Read more

Towards a Three-tiered Social Graph in Decentralized Online Social Networks

We developed an approach and a software architecture for decentralized social networking services, focusing on the central role of the smartphone. We presented this work as a paper at the HotPOST 2015 workshop (co-located with ACM MobiHoc 2015) and received the Best Paper Runner-Up award! You can find the full paper here (PDF). Online Social … Read more