Сравнение на методи

	Събиране на данни чрез мобилни сензори	Събиране на данни чрез API
Област	Методология на проучванията	Методология на проучванията
Семейство	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Година на възникване	Mid-2000s (smartphone-era formalization ~2006–2010)	2000s–2010s (formalized as a research method)
Създател	Andrew Campbell, Tanzeem Choudhury, and colleagues (early smartphone sensing research); broader field of ubiquitous computing	Emerged from computational social science and web 2.0 platform practices
Тип	Passive and active quantitative data collection technique	Digital data collection technique
Основополагащ източник	Lane, N. D., Miluzzo, E., Lu, H., Peebles, D., Choudhury, T., & Campbell, A. T. (2010). A survey of mobile phone sensing. IEEE Communications Magazine, 48(9), 140–150.	Salganik, M. J. (2018). Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691158648
Други названия	mobile sensing, smartphone sensor data collection, wearable sensor data collection, passive mobile data collection	API data harvesting, API-driven data collection, programmatic data retrieval, API research data collection
Свързани	4	5
Резюме	Mobile sensor data collection uses the built-in sensors of smartphones, tablets, or wearable devices to capture behavioral, physiological, and environmental data in real-world settings. Sensors such as accelerometers, GPS, heart rate monitors, ambient light detectors, and microphones record data passively or on demand, enabling researchers to study human behavior with high temporal resolution outside the laboratory.	API-based data collection is a systematic technique in which a researcher sends structured requests to an application programming interface to retrieve data automatically from digital platforms, databases, or services. It is the primary method used in computational social science to gather large-scale social media records, government open data, financial data streams, and scientific repository content in machine-readable formats such as JSON or XML, enabling reproducible and scalable data acquisition that manual collection cannot match.