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Collecting and Understanding Mobile Log Data - A Multi-Method Approach

Visiting speaker
Past Talk
Jeffrey Boase
Associate Professor in the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information & Technology and the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto
Oct 27, 2015
8:00 pm
Oct 27, 2015
8:00 pm
In-person
4 Thomas More St
London E1W 1YW, UK
The Roux Institute
Room
100 Fore Street
Portland, ME 04101
Network Science Institute
2nd floor
Network Science Institute
11th floor
177 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Network Science Institute
2nd floor
Room
58 St Katharine's Way
London E1W 1LP, UK

Talk recording

This talk will discuss a newly developed multi-method approach to combining mobile calling and texting log data with traditional survey and interview techniques. This approach involves a system in which an online portal is used to customize the actions of a smartphone based data collection application. These actions include the collection of non-identifying calling and texting log data, on-screen survey questions, and dynamically drawing on log data to generate questions and stimuli for use during in-person interviews. This talk will also discuss ways of collecting this data without compromising respondent privacy, and it will touch on ways of analyzing the large and complex data that this multi-method approach produces.

About the speaker
Dr. Boase’s research focuses on the relationship between communication technology and personal networks. He is particularly interested in how emerging technologies such as smartphones and social media platforms may enable or hinder the transfer of information and support within personal networks. In recent years he has incorporated digital trace data into his project designs.
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Oct 27, 2015