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A simple location-tracking app for psychological research
Location data gathered from a variety of sources are particularly valuable when it comes to understanding individuals and groups. However, much of this work has relied on participants’ active engagement in regularly reporting their location. More recently, smartphones have been used to assist with t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6877492/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30484217 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1164-y |
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author | Geyer, Kristoffer Ellis, David A. Piwek, Lukasz |
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description | Location data gathered from a variety of sources are particularly valuable when it comes to understanding individuals and groups. However, much of this work has relied on participants’ active engagement in regularly reporting their location. More recently, smartphones have been used to assist with this process, but although commercial smartphone applications are available, these are often expensive and are not designed with researchers in mind. To overcome these and other related issues, we have developed a freely available Android application that logs location accurately, stores the data securely, and ensures that participants can provide consent or withdraw from a study at any time. Further recommendations and R code are provided in order to assist with subsequent data analysis. |
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spelling | pubmed-68774922019-12-10 A simple location-tracking app for psychological research Geyer, Kristoffer Ellis, David A. Piwek, Lukasz Behav Res Methods Article Location data gathered from a variety of sources are particularly valuable when it comes to understanding individuals and groups. However, much of this work has relied on participants’ active engagement in regularly reporting their location. More recently, smartphones have been used to assist with this process, but although commercial smartphone applications are available, these are often expensive and are not designed with researchers in mind. To overcome these and other related issues, we have developed a freely available Android application that logs location accurately, stores the data securely, and ensures that participants can provide consent or withdraw from a study at any time. Further recommendations and R code are provided in order to assist with subsequent data analysis. Springer US 2018-11-27 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6877492/ /pubmed/30484217 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1164-y Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Article Geyer, Kristoffer Ellis, David A. Piwek, Lukasz A simple location-tracking app for psychological research |
title | A simple location-tracking app for psychological research |
title_full | A simple location-tracking app for psychological research |
title_fullStr | A simple location-tracking app for psychological research |
title_full_unstemmed | A simple location-tracking app for psychological research |
title_short | A simple location-tracking app for psychological research |
title_sort | simple location-tracking app for psychological research |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6877492/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30484217 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1164-y |
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