LiveLabs: Building in-situ mobile sensing and behavioural experimentation testbeds

• Main Authors: JAYARAJAH, Kasthuri, BALAN, Rajesh Krishna, RADHAKRISHNAN, Meera, MISRA, Archan, LEE, Youngki
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Mobile Sensing; Experimentation; Testbed; Singapore Management University; Suntex; Sentosa resort island; Asian Studies; Computer Sciences; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3304; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4306/viewcontent/livelabsbuilding.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper, we present LiveLabs, a first-of-its-kind testbed that isdeployed across a university campus, convention centre, and resortisland and collects real-time attributes such as location, group contextetc., from hundreds of opt-in participants. These venues, data,and participants are then made available for running rich humancentricbehavioural experiments that could test new mobile sensinginfrastructure, applications, analytics, or more social-sciencetype hypotheses that influence and then observe actual user behaviour.We share case studies of how researchers from aroundthe world have and are using LiveLabs, and our experiences andlessons learned from building, maintaining, and expanding LiveLabsover the last three years.