A Human Mobility Dataset Collected via LBSLab

Location-Based Services (LBS) have been prosperous owing to technological advancements of smart devices. Analyzing location based user generated data is a helpful way to understand human mobility patterns, further fueling applications such as recommender systems and urban computing. In this data descriptor, we introduce a dataset collected by LBSLab, a smartphone-based system implemented as a mini-program in the WeChat app, designed for large scale data collection from the smartphones of the participants with their informed consent. We provide activity data of multiple types including logins, profile viewing, weather checking, and check-ins with location information (latitude and longitude), POI and mood indicated, collected from 467 users over a duration of 11 days. We present some basic data analysis and expect the reuse of the data will allow researchers to better understand user behaviors of LBSs, human mobility, and also temporal and spatial characteristics of people’s mood.

For further information about the LBSLab system, you can check out our position paper here: https://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~ychen/papers/LBSLab-UbiComp18.pdf

And also the Youtube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8r-1jqvYWc