One experience collecting sensitive mobile data

• Elaine Shi
• Richard Chow

Usable Security Experiment Reports (USER) Workshop

14 July 2010
Redmond, Washington, USA

description

We report on our efforts to collect behavioral data based on activities recorded by phones. We recruited Android device owners and offered entry into a raffle for participants. Our application was distributed from the Android Market, and its placement there unexpectedly helped us find participants from casual users browsing for free applications. We collected data from 267 total participants who gave us varying amounts of data.