WildKey Social
A toolkit for data collection in-the-wild with privacy as a core principle of the design.
With this service, you will be able to collect location, used app categories, physical activity, ambient light, screen states, call and SMS events.
Data Collection
Communication
Call Events

Wildkey Social collects the type of call event (i.e. incoming, outgoing, answered, missed), a hashed representation of the number, and the date of the call.

SMS Events

Wildkey Social collects the size (in number of chars), a hashed representation of the number, and the date of the received SMS.

Device data
Ambient Light

Wildkey Social collects the ambient light in Lux for 10 seconds each 15 minutes (i.e. as long as the device is not in deep sleep).

Battery Events

Wildkey Social collects when the battery is low and when is charged.

Screen States

Wildkey Social collects when the screen is turned on and off.

Unlock Events

Wildkey Social collects when the phone is unlocked.

User data
App Categories

Wildkey Social collects the Google Playstore category of each open app by the user. If the app is not in the store is marked as unknown.

Physical Activity

Wildkey Social relies on the Android Activity Recognition API to automatically detect activities (i.e. in a vehicle, still, walking, running).

Location Data
For location data Wildkey Social store a list of anonymized areas where the user spends more than 20 minutes. In each, we store how many times (and the exact time) it got a location within the boundaries of that specific area, enter/exit events, and the average accuracy of the points used to create the boundary.
What you do
What we get
Privacy-Aware
Anonymized Data
Smartphones are becoming an extension of oneself and data privacy is of utmost importance. Approaches that seek to collect data can face difficulties in recruiting and possibly additional compliance issues. Aware of these challenges, Wildkey Social follows the same paradigm as Wildkey and was developed with privacy as a core principle of the design. Within Wildkey Social all data collected by the application is anonymized and only associated with the Participant ID.
Right to be Forgotten
To comply with GDPR, WildKey enables researchers to quickly download all data from a specific user, and delete it all if necessary.