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When Crowdsourcing Meets Mobile Sensing: A Social Network Perspective

open access: yes, 2015
Mobile sensing is an emerging technology that utilizes agent-participatory data for decision making or state estimation, including multimedia applications.
Chen, Pin-Yu   +4 more
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Launching an efficient participatory sensing campaign: A smart mobile device-based approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
PublishedJournal Article© 2015 ACM. Participatory sensing is a promising sensing paradigm that enables collection, processing, dissemination and analysis of the phenomena of interest by ordinary citizens through their handheld sensing devices ...
Hao, Fei, Jiao, M, Min, Geyong, Yang, LT
core   +1 more source

Non-Monetary Incentives for Participatory Sensing Data Collection: A Sequential Explanatory Design

open access: yesIEEE Access
Insufficient datasets due to a lack of data contribution from participants is a longstanding problem for data collection in participatory sensing. Empirical evidence has shown that non-monetary incentives can be a strong motivator to enhance participants&
Syarulnaziah Anawar   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Low-Cost Sensing System for Cooperative Air Quality Monitoring in Urban Areas

open access: yesSensors, 2015
Air quality in urban areas is a very important topic as it closely affects the health of citizens. Recent studies highlight that the exposure to polluted air can increase the incidence of diseases and deteriorate the quality of life.
Simone Brienza   +3 more
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Measuring PM2.5 Concentrations from a Single Smartphone Photograph

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2022
PM2.5 participates in light scattering, leading to degraded outdoor views, which forms the basis for estimating PM2.5 from photographs. This paper devises an algorithm to estimate PM2.5 concentrations by extracting visual cues and atmospheric indices ...
Shiqi Yao, Fei Wang, Bo Huang
doaj   +1 more source

Crisis Analytics: Big Data Driven Crisis Response [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Disasters have long been a scourge for humanity. With the advances in technology (in terms of computing, communications, and the ability to process and analyze big data), our ability to respond to disasters is at an inflection point.
Ali, Anwaar   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Reputation-Based Incentives for Data Dissemination in Mobile Participatory Sensing Networks

open access: yesInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2015
The ever-more-capable smart mobile phone gave birth to a novel sensing paradigm, participatory sensing. In the application environment of mobile participatory sensing networks, mobile equipment is usually weakly connected.
Jie Li, Xingwei Wang, Ruiyun Yu, Rui Liu
doaj   +1 more source

Use of Participatory sUAS in Resilient Socioecological Systems (SES) Research: A Review and Case Study from the Southern Great Plains, USA

open access: yesDrones
Since the publication of the seminal work People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and the Social Sciences, the call to “socialize the pixel” and “pixelize the social” has gone largely unheeded from a truly participatory research context.
Todd D. Fagin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

DaTask: A Decomposition-Based Deadline-Aware Task Assignment and Workers’ Path-Planning in Mobile Crowd-Sensing

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
Mobile crowd-sensing (MCS) has recently become a promising approach for massive data collection, which empowers common people to perform sensing tasks with their smart devices. In MCS, locations of tasks and workers are diverse, and workers need to visit
Shathee Akter, Seokhoon Yoon
doaj   +1 more source

Designing Participatory Sensing with Remote Communities to Conserve Endangered Species

open access: yesInternational Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019
The increasing loss of species globally calls for effective monitoring tools and strategies to inform conservation action. The dominant approach to citizens engagement has been smart phone and platform-centric, tasking crowds to collect and analyze data.
Tshering Dema, M. Brereton, P. Roe
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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