Project title

iSCIENCE: Smartphones for science

This project had developed software to turn smartphones into valuable scientific instruments for studying human behaviour. An increasing number of recent publications across various disciplines rely on the use of smartphones for data collection. A variety of sensors are available on modern smartphones to improve users’ experience and application functionality, but scientists can also use these sensors to access multidimensional behavioural data, making smartphones valuable scientific instruments. However, a major obstacle to collecting scientific data from smartphones is the lack of reusable instrumentation tools: today, researchers start from scratch when building an application to collect data from smartphones. iSCIENCE has addressed this scientific need. We have developed software that makes it easy for scientists to conduct experiments with smartphones for measuring human behaviour.