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	Raccolta dati tramite sensori mobili	Raccolta dati basata su API
Campo	Metodologia delle indagini	Metodologia delle indagini
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	Mid-2000s (smartphone-era formalization ~2006–2010)	2000s–2010s (formalized as a research method)
Ideatore	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
Tipo	Passive and active quantitative data collection technique	Digital data collection technique
Fonte seminale	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
Alias	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
Correlati	4	5
Sintesi	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.