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Mobile API-based Data Collection

Mobile API-based data collection uses mobile devices (smartphones, tablets) to query application programming interfaces — structured web endpoints that return machine-readable data — enabling researchers to gather behavioral, contextual, sensor-enriched, or platform-generated data in real time from participants in their natural environments. It combines the ubiquity of mobile hardware with the scalability and standardization of RESTful or GraphQL APIs.

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Mobile Application Programming Interface-based Data Collection
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / survey-methodology
  • Luce, M. F., Kahn, B. E., & Malhotra, N. K. (2016). Capturing consumer experiences with mobile research methods. Journal of Consumer Research, 42(6), 949–965. · URL
  • Application programming interface. Wikipedia. · URL
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Taxonomic bucketAPI-based Data Collectionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketMobile Experience Samplingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketMobile Experience Sampling Methodmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketMobile Surveymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketSensor Data Collectionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketWeb Scrapingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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