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My college had some computer science folks that gave out $10 cash per student to type a page of text for obtaining training data.

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Out of curiosity, did you go to Iowa State? I helped run the study, and there were very good results.

Unfortunately we ran into some mistakes in the communication between DARPA and the university which cut things the project short.

We were also working on mobile identification which included the timing between letter combinations (2-grams if memory serves right) as well as accelerometer data.

I'm intrigued by this. Most of my mobile typing is done with the Google keyboard swipe gesture thing. Is there a way to identify a user by this, since the words are entered in the form field one at a time? Also, accelerometer data as in the way the use holds the phone? I find it interesting because for the past week or so I've been trying to fix my bad posture, and as a result the way I hold my phone has changed drastically. I wonder how this type of system deals with situations like that.

I did not. I actually went to college in the south. I wonder how many participated?

We had a couple thousand people participate if I remember right. It was a moderately high percentage of the student body. This was 2014 era.

Interesting. Judging by the lines, we probably had a similar amount.

I wonder how many schools setup something similar? At least two I guess :).

This very reasonable sum for a project with funding.

The GradType was creating using my personal funds. Any help is greatly appreciated!

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