Do you know where and in what context you meet your familiar strangers?
Do you know why it is important to quantify your location privacy?
If you know the answers to these questions then the Mobility Data Contest (hosted at the ACM HotPlanet'11 workshop) is for you! Haven’t a clue as to what the heck we’re talking about? We also want you to take part and learn more about the fascinating peculiarities of human mobility.
The HotPlanet ‘11 Mobility Data Contest consists of designing a human mobility experiment, processing the collected data, visualizing it and communicating the results to a broader audience through the medium of your choice. While the contest organizers want to challenge you to share your experience in crunching mobility data, the idea is to explore various approaches for understanding the peculiarities of human mobility. Participants must plan on attending MobiSys‘11 and/or its associated workshops, as this is where you will gather your data.
Google is sponsoring first, second and third places prizes for the contest and Googlers will be on the panel of judges. Please visit the ACM HotPlanet'11 website for more information about the workshop and the Mobility Data Contest. But don’t wait until June to get started on your design-- start experimenting now and see where it takes you. We hope to see you there!
Posted by Dr. Michał Piórkowski, USI, Switzerland
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