Jeffrey W. Lockhart
Jeff Lockhart is a James S. McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago, in the Department of Sociology and the Knowledge Lab. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan as well as masters degrees in both gender studies and computer science. His research examines how identities such as sex, gender, sexuality, and race are constructed and contested in scientific, technological, and political arenas. Lockhart uses a mix of computational social science and qualitative archival methods in his research.
Recent Scholarship
Actitracker: A Smartphone-based Activity Recognition System for Improving Health and Well-Being
Actitracker is a smartphone-based activity-monitoring service to help people ensure they receive sufficient activity to maintain proper health. This free service allowed people to set personal activity goals and monitor their progress toward these goals. Actitracker...
Limitations with Activity Recognition Methodology & Data Sets
Human activity recognition (AR) has begun to mature as a field, but for AR research to thrive, large, diverse, high quality, AR data sets must be publically available and AR methodology must be clearly documented and standardized. In the process of comparing our AR...
The Benefits of Personalized Models for Smartphone-Based Activity Recognition
This paper describes Actitracker, a smartphone-based activitymonitoring service that helps people ensure that they receive sufficient activity to maintain proper health. Unlike most other such services, Actitracker requires only a smartphone (no watches, bands, or...
Public Sociology
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