Want to save money on your phone bill?

You might consider joining one of UB’s more unusual research projects: PhoneLab.

Researchers are providing the use of a Galaxy Nexus smartphone and one year of free service to 250 faculty and staff. In exchange, participants must use the phone as their primary phone and engage in regular research studies for roughly two hours per week.

Participants will be asked to perform simple tasks, such as completing a survey, and more complex tasks, like using a geotagging application, says Steven Ko, one of the lab’s co-investigators and an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Other co-investigators are Professor Chunming Qiao; Murat Demirbas and Tevfik Kosar, associate professors; and Assistant Professor Geoffrey Challen.

To sign-up, visit the PhoneLab website.

For more information about the research project, read this story in the UB Reporter.

Those with questions about the project can email the PhoneLab team at help@phone-lab.org.