AWARE-WS : a multipurpose science dashboard
Mikko Korhonen, Henri Koski, Aku Visuri · 2015
AWARE is a mobile instrumentation framework for Android devices that focuses on users, researchers and application developers. In this paper we introduce AWARE’s web services (AWARE-WS), a multipurpose dashboard for science. AWARE-WS allows researchers to manage and interact with longitudinal, largescale and distributed user studies that focus on human behavior. Additionally, developers can manage and share their own plugins or sensors for extending the AWARE framework. AWARE-WS was designed and implemented taking into account AWARE’s secure, private, scalable, and interoperable data exchange requirements and has been thoroughly evaluated for its performance, scalability and usability. We stress-tested AWARE-WS with an increasing amount of generated data streams (e.g., sensor data), from 1000 to 10 Million devices, to improve the overall system’s performance. Using pagination and on-demand data loading, we achieved a reasonable average loading time of 1,9 seconds.