Phone Calls

Sensor parameters description for [PHONE_CALLS]:

Key	Description
[CONTAINER]	Data stream container (database table, CSV file, etc.) where the calls data is stored

RAPIDS Provider

Available time segments and platforms

• Available for all time segments
• Available for Android and iOS

File Sequence

- data/raw/{pid}/phone_calls_raw.csv
- data/raw/{pid}/phone_calls_with_datetime.csv
- data/interim/{pid}/phone_calls_features/phone_calls_{language}_{provider_key}.csv
- data/processed/features/{pid}/phone_calls.csv

Parameters description for [PHONE_CALLS][PROVIDERS][RAPIDS]:

Key	Description
[COMPUTE]	Set to True to extract PHONE_CALLS features from the RAPIDS provider
[CALL_TYPES]	The particular call_type that will be analyzed. The options for this parameter are incoming, outgoing or missed.
[FEATURES]	Features to be computed for outgoing, incoming, and missed calls. Note that the same features are available for both incoming and outgoing calls, while missed calls has its own set of features. See the tables below.

Features description for [PHONE_CALLS][PROVIDERS][RAPIDS] incoming and outgoing calls:

Feature	Units	Description
count	calls	Number of calls of a particular call_type occurred during a particular time_segment.
distinctcontacts	contacts	Number of distinct contacts that are associated with a particular call_type for a particular time_segment
meanduration	seconds	The mean duration of all calls of a particular call_type during a particular time_segment.
sumduration	seconds	The sum of the duration of all calls of a particular call_type during a particular time_segment.
minduration	seconds	The duration of the shortest call of a particular call_type during a particular time_segment.
maxduration	seconds	The duration of the longest call of a particular call_type during a particular time_segment.
stdduration	seconds	The standard deviation of the duration of all the calls of a particular call_type during a particular time_segment.
modeduration	seconds	The mode of the duration of all the calls of a particular call_type during a particular time_segment.
entropyduration	nats	The estimate of the Shannon entropy for the the duration of all the calls of a particular call_type during a particular time_segment.
timefirstcall	minutes	The time in minutes between 12:00am (midnight) and the first call of call_type.
timelastcall	minutes	The time in minutes between 12:00am (midnight) and the last call of call_type.
countmostfrequentcontact	calls	The number of calls of a particular call_type during a particular time_segment of the most frequent contact throughout the monitored period.

Features description for [PHONE_CALLS][PROVIDERS][RAPIDS] missed calls:

Feature	Units	Description
count	calls	Number of missed calls that occurred during a particular time_segment.
distinctcontacts	contacts	Number of distinct contacts that are associated with missed calls for a particular time_segment
timefirstcall	minutes	The time in hours from 12:00am (Midnight) that the first missed call occurred.
timelastcall	minutes	The time in hours from 12:00am (Midnight) that the last missed call occurred.
countmostfrequentcontact	calls	The number of missed calls during a particular time_segment of the most frequent contact throughout the monitored period.

Assumptions/Observations

1. Traces for iOS calls are unique even for the same contact calling a participant more than once which renders countmostfrequentcontact meaningless and distinctcontacts equal to the total number of traces.
2. [CALL_TYPES] and [FEATURES] keys in config.yaml need to match. For example, [CALL_TYPES] outgoing matches the [FEATURES] key outgoing
3. iOS calls data is transformed to match Android calls data format. See our algorithm