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My name is Simon Dennis and I am a husband, a father, a mentor and friend. I am also the Director of the Complex Human Data Hub within the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences and CEO of Unforgettable Research Services. The Complex Human Data Hub‘s primary aim is to develop Computational Behavioural Science – bringing […]

Release of Private 0.9 – for people who analyse sensitive personal data

Current languages for data analysis such as R, python or Matlab provide no protection for the sensitive personal data that researchers commonly encounter. Data is often available in its raw form and can be freely copied. Private creates a buffer between the data and the analyst that allows companies and institutions to provide access to […]

Running studies on unforgettable.me

The first step to becoming a researcher on the unforgettable.me platform is to sign up for an account as a research participant. Once that is done, login to your account and navigate to the Marketplace. On the right hand side of the screen you will see a button entitled “Request researcher account”. Click on this […]

How to make money on the unforgettable.me platform

unforgettable.me is a research platform that allows you to sign up to participate in studies and be paid. Unlike other platforms like Mechanical Turk or Prolific Academic, on the unforgettable.me platform you retain ownership of your data. You create a data asset that you “lease” to the researcher for them to analyse. However, because you […]

Data collection using IFTTT

“If This Then That” (IFTTT) is a web service that allows you to connect other web services, apps and devices to each other to automate simple tasks. For instance, like many people you probably have receipts sprinkled through your email. Perhaps you would like to keep these in one place. By connecting the IFTTT Gmail […]

Combining events of different types in Private

It is often the case that one would like to combine events of different types that happened at approximately the same time. For instance, suppose you would like to know how temperature affects whether people are happy. The temperature can be found in App events, while a rating of happiness might be found in SEMA […]

Private Events

In every Private language shell, there is a special variable called Events that contains the data that is available in this context. This variable is always private, and so you will not be able to look at it directly. To program with these data structures you need to know the format of the data. On […]

Phone call and SMS events in Private

Using the IFTTT service Unforgettable can receive phone call and SMS events as follows: Android Call sent Android Call received SMS Sent SMS Received Obfuscated SMS Sent Obfuscated SMS Received

Email Events in Private

Unforgettable Research Services provides a service that allows participants to forward their emails to the system. Below is an example of an email event within Private generated by such a forward.

SEMA Events in Private

The Smartphone Ecological Momentary Assessment 3 (SEMA3) app allows you to administer micro-surveys to participants across a day with a variety of schedules that you can specify in the SEMA3 system. These can be loaded into Unforgettable and made available to researchers through the Private webshell. At the bottom of the post is an example […]

App Events in Private

Each instance of the Private shell provides a variable called Events that contains the data that is available in this context. Events is a list of event instances of different types. One of the main kinds of events is the App event. These events are generated when a participant is using the Unforgettable Research Services’ […]