Professor Mirco Musolesi awarded 10-year Impact Award at ACM UbiComp 2021

ACM UbiComp (https://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2021/) is the flagship ACM conference in the area of Ubiquitous Computing.

Mirco Musolesi and colleagues were awarded the prestigious 10-year Impact “test-of-time” award that is given to papers that had a strong impact on the UbiComp research community in the past 10 years. The original paper was published at ACM UbiComp 2010.

The citation of the award is the following:

“This work proposed a mobile platform that collects sensor data from mobile phones running Nokia’s Symbian OS and uses that to infer emotions as well as social interactions. The software produced was also open-sourced (which was rare at the time), and this allowed other researchers in the community to perform in-the-wild, large-scale social psychological studies.

This use of mobile sensing to understand user emotions was an extremely novel use case at that time and this work has inspired a wide variety of future studies published at later UbiComp and other mobile sensing venues.”

• Link to the paper: https://www.mircomusolesi.org/papers/ubicomp10.pdf
• Link to the ACM Digital Library: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1864349.1864393
• Link to Professor Mirco Musolesi: https://mircomusolesi.org