Community-Aware Smartphone Sensing Systems

by Nicholas D. Lane

Despite people's central role within smartphone sensing, such systems remain largely oblivious to the effects of social networks and community dynamics. How might smartphone sensing systems change if they could see more than isolated individuals? What if sensing systems could not only understand these social effects but could leverage them in their day-to-day operations — for example, as they collect and interpret mobile sensor data? READ FULL ARTICLE (login required) »