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Mobile Data Challenge 2012 Workshop was organized in connection with the Pervasive 2012 in Newcastle, UK. This 2-day event aimed to serve as a forum to share recent findings, create new innovations and strengthen the community around our interesting field of mobile computing. Simultaneously, the workshop crowned the Mobile Data Challenge (MDC) 2012 - a large-scale research initiative showing visible outcome of nearly three years of work in this direction. The challenge was built on the top of the earlier Lausanne Data Collection Campaign (LDCC), in which longitudinal smartphone data was collected from nearly 200 volunteers in the Lake Geneva region over more than one year of time.
 

As a result of the reviewing process, 22 entries to the Open Track and 18 entries to the Dedicated Track were accepted, resulting in an overall acceptance rate of 37% (less than 20% for oral presentations). The program of the workshop consisted both of the oral and poster sessions. The contributions to the MDC addressed various interesting angles from the perspective of mobile computing research – covering e.g. investigations on predictability of human behavior or opportunities to share/capture data based on mobility patterns, visualization techniques for complex data as well as correlation between human behavior and external environmental variables (like weather). The Mobile Data Challenge produced interesting findings and multidisciplinary scientific advances – the workshop advanced related research and innovation even further.

The MDC team (from the left): Jan Blom, Markus Miettinen, Emma Dorée, Juha Laurila, Julien Eberle, Daniel Gatica-Perez and Trinh Minh Tri Do.

The journey and momentum around this interesting research field and resources is expected to continue and expand also after the Mobile Data Challenge itself.

Workshop publications

The workshop papers can be accessed through the links below.

Open challenge session 1: Insights through visualization and other techniques

Open challenge session 2: Human behaviour and perceptions

Open challenge session 3: Networking and connectivity

Dedicated task 1: Semantic place prediction

Dedicated task 2: Next place prediction

Dedicated task 3: Demographic prediction

Open and dedicated challenge posters

Best Papers

The best Open and Dedicated Challenge entries were rewarded during the final day of the workshop.

Representatives for the winning entries (from left): Aidan Slingsby and Roger Beecham (City University London), Yin Zhu(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Vincent Etter (EPFL), Jordan Frank (McGill University), Antonia Lima and Mirco Musolesi (University of Birmingham).

Click here to access the list of three best entries in each category.

Workshop frontmatter

Please click here for complete information package on the workshop.

MDC overview paper

A publication is now available on the process behind MDC.

Please click here for a copy of this paper.

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