News & Press

News

- June 2012: Global impact of the Mobile Data Challenge

- May 2012: LS-CONTEXT research in New Scientist
LS-CONTEXT research on smartphone data analysis and personality traits discussed in New Scientist

- Best Paper Paper Award Nomination at MUM 2012
The paper "Checking In or Checked In: Comparing Large-Scale Manual and Automatic Location Disclosure Patterns,"
by Eric Malmi, Trinh-Minh-Tri Do, and Daniel Gatica-Perez was nominated for the Best Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM) held in Ulm, Germany, December 4-6, 2012. The work was supported by the LS-CONTEXT collaborative project between Idiap's Social Computing Group and Nokia Research, and by the SNSF HAI project.

Press

Joint press release by Idiap and Nokia:
https://www.idiap.ch/scientific-research/news/idiap-research-institute-and-nokia-research-center-lausanne-organize-the-mobile-data-challenge-2012-with-global-success

Article in Nokia Research page:
https://research.nokia.com/news/12363

Article in Nokia Conversations:
https://conversations.nokia.com/2012/06/20/mobile-data-challenge-2012-unlocking-the-secrets-of-smartphone-data/

EPFL news:
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/the-phone-that-knows-where-you-re-going/

International press:
https://www.lesechos.fr/entreprises-secteurs/innovation-competences/technologies/0202134754229-quand-le-telephone-mobile-predira-nos-comportements-337662.php
https://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-des-chercheurs-anticipent-les-deplacements-des-utilisateurs-a-partir-des-donnees-mobiles-49393.html
https://phys.org/news/2012-06-youre.html
https://www.myscience.cc/news/2012/the_phone_that_knows_where_youre_going-2012-epfl

National press:
https://www.market.ch/fr/technologie/details/article/nokia-et-idiap-partenariat-gagnant.html
https://agefi.com/suisse/detail/artikel/le-partenariat-en-recherche-comportementale.html
https://www.rhonefm.ch/fr/informations/infos-a-chaud/l-idiap-planche-sur-le-telephone-de-demain-313-50996
https://www.ictjournal.ch/News/2012/06/20/Un-concept-developpe-par-lEPFL-anticipe-nos-deplacements.aspx
https://www.24heures.ch/vaud-regions/Des-etudiants-de-l-EPFL-predisent-les-deplacements-dutilisateurs-de-telephones-mobiles/story/22057623
https://www.lenouvelliste.ch/fr/societe/multimedia/trois-etudiants-inventent-le-telephone-qui-anticipe-vos-deplacements-476-485376
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/digital/mobil/Das-Handy-weiss-wo-Sie-sein-werden/story/28625345
https://bazonline.ch/digital/mobil/Das-Handy-weiss-wo-Sie-sein-werden/story/28625345