方法对比

	移动API数据收集	传感器数据收集
领域	调查方法论	调查方法论
方法族	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
起源年份	2007–2010 (mainstream smartphone era)	1990s–2000s (widespread deployment with IoT ~2000s)
提出者	Emerged from mobile computing and REST/web API proliferation (Fielding, 2000; widespread adoption ~2007–2010 with smartphone ecosystem)	Multidisciplinary; sensor networks formalized in engineering and computer science from the 1990s onward
类型	Digital data collection technique	Quantitative / mixed data collection technique
开创性文献	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.	Chong, C.-Y., & Kumar, S. P. (2003). Sensor networks: Evolution, opportunities, and challenges. Proceedings of the IEEE, 91(8), 1247–1256.
别名	mobile API data collection, smartphone API data harvesting, mobile app API research data collection, API-driven mobile data collection	sensor measurement, instrumented data collection, physical sensor logging, IoT data collection
相关	6	5
摘要	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.	Sensor data collection uses physical or digital instruments to automatically capture quantitative measurements from the environment, human bodies, or machines over time. Common sensors measure temperature, motion, heart rate, location, light, sound, or chemical properties. Because the recording is automated and continuous, the method can produce high-frequency datasets with minimal researcher burden, making it central to IoT, environmental monitoring, wearable research, and behavioral studies.