Using Smartphones as Mobile Sensing Devices: Mobile phones represent an ideal platform for studying behavior in real-life contexts. Mobile phones are ubiquitous, unobtrusive, and sensor rich platforms. The modern smartphone has many sensors (e.g., accelerometer, camera, microphone, Bluetooth, GPS, and magnetometer) that have the potential to accurately capture a variety of behaviors unobtrusively. As such, mobile sensing technology has the potential to revolutionize how research is done in psychology. Rather than relying solely on self-reports of undergraduates, the new technologies can provide the means for studying psychological phenomena as they are played out in the real world. The main barrier to the field adopting these technologies is frustratingly simple—most psychologists are simply not aware of the current capabilities and potential of mobile sensing methods. The goal of this pre-conference is to eliminate that ignorance and initiate the widespread adoption of mobile-sensing methods in our field. This video demonstrates one potential smartphone use (courtesy of Andrew Campbell—see his website for plenty of others).
The picture above is the funf open sensing framework (courtesy of Nadav Aharony—see this website for more information).
~ Schedule ~
1pm: Introduction - Jason Rentfrow
& Sam Gosling 1:10pm: Smart
Phone Sensing - Andrew Campbell will showcase what the mobile-sensing world can offer. - Slides from Andrew Campbell's talk. 1:50pm: The Way You Move, Feel, Think, and Speak.... Mobile Assessment of Experience, Behavior, and Physiology in Natural Life Contexts - Cornelia
Wrzus will
provide the practical perspective of a psychologist who has put these
technologies into practice. - Slides from Cornelia Wrzus' talk. 2:30pm: Coffee
Break 2:50pm: FUNF Open
Sensing Network - Nadav Aharony will provide hands-on advice about how to use a
mobile phone application specifically designed for behavioral scientists.
3:30pm: Roundtable
discussion and Q&A 4:00pm: Close ~ Speakers ~ Andrew Campbell, Dartmouth College http://sensorlab.cs.dartmouth.edu/index.html http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~campbell/demos.html Cornelia Wrzus, Max Planck Institute for Human Development http://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/staff/cornelia-wrzus Nadav Aharony,
MIT Media Lab
If you have problems with this website email Jason Ferrell (jasonferrell@utexas.edu). 
A Practical Guide for Psychologists to Current and Potential Capabilities
This FREE event is intended to inform psychologists of the ways in which mobile phones can be used to study behavior in everyday life. The Focus will be on providing PRACTICAL advice on how to implement smartphone technologies in your research. There will be plenty of time to ask questions.