TYDR

Context Data Categories and Privacy Model for Mobile Data Collection Apps

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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

Do You Like What I Like? Similarity Estimation in Proximity-based Mobile Social Networks

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While existing social networking services tend to connect people who know each other, people show a desire to also connect to yet unknown people in physical proximity. Existing research shows that people tend to connect to similar people. Utilizing technology in order to stimulate human interaction between strangers, we consider the scenario of two strangers … Read more

TYDR presented at Long Night of Science in Berlin

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We presented TYDR at the Long Night of Science in Berlin (German: Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften). Many visitors from all walks of life were curious to learn more about our app and try the latest beta on our presentation phones. Their feedback will help use refine the app before we are releasing it on Google … Read more

TYDR – Track Your Daily Routine. Android App for Tracking Smartphone Sensor and Usage Data

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We present the Android app TYDR (Track Your Daily Routine) which tracks smartphone sensor and usage data and utilizes standardized psychometric personality questionnaires. With the app, we aim at collecting data for researching correlations between the tracked smartphone data and the user’s personality in order to predict personality from smartphone data. We highlight our approaches … Read more

Project DYNAMIC started

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Today officially starts my project DYNAMIC, for which I acquired funding at the competitive Software Campus program (funded through the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)). DYNAMIC deals with distributed online social networks and with the creation of dynamic social graphs based on location, context, and profile data. In current Online Social Networks, relations … Read more