Measuring user behaviour and experience in context and analyzing the networks of relationships and actions between people and places over time is likely to be a very fertile area of research for the future especially in regard to well-being research. The Xensor group have been developing a system for the collection of such data:
Abstract
Mobile phones tend to go wherever people go. SocioXensor is an extensible toolkit that exploits this, in combination with the capabilities of current smartphones. It can capture objective data about human behavior and the context in which this takes place (e.g., location, proximity and activities such as communication), objective data about application usage and subjective data about user experience (e.g., needs, frustrations, and satisfaction). SocioXensor is a research instrument that allows social scientists to gain a detailed and dynamic insight into social phenomena and their relations. In turn, these outcomes can inform the design of mobile context-sensitive collaborative system.
What's your lab doing in my pocket
The Xensor group
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Liam has talked about using mobile phones in field research before. This product would seem to be the best tool available!
If you're interested in conducting field research with mobile phones, you might want to also check out the MyExperience tool. It's a context-aware experience sampling tool for mobile phones created by Intel Research, University of Washington with contributions from MIT.
http://myexperience.sourceforge.net/
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