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Social Sensing of Heatwaves [PDF]
Heatwaves cause thousands of deaths every year, yet the social impacts of heat are poorly measured. Temperature alone is not sufficient to measure impacts and “heatwaves” are defined differently in different cities/countries.
James C. Young +3 more
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Nonverbal Social Sensing: What Social Sensing Can and Cannot Do for the Study of Nonverbal Behavior From Video [PDF]
The study of nonverbal behavior (NVB), and in particular kinesics (i.e., face and body motions), is typically seen as cost-intensive. However, the development of new technologies (e.g., ubiquitous sensing, computer vision, and algorithms) and approaches ...
Laetitia Aurelie Renier +3 more
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Multimodal Social Sensing for the Spatio-Temporal Evolution and Assessment of Nature Disasters [PDF]
Social sensing, using humans as sensors to collect disaster data, has emerged as a timely, cost-effective, and reliable data source. However, research has focused on the textual data.
Chen Yu, Zhiguo Wang
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UISTD: A Trust-Aware Model for Diverse Item Personalization in Social Sensing with Lower Privacy Intrusion [PDF]
Privacy intrusion has become a major bottleneck for current trust-aware social sensing, since online social media allows anybody to largely disclose their personal information due to the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT).
Hongchen Wu, Mingyang Li, Huaxiang Zhang
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Social sensing of floods in the UK. [PDF]
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Arthur R +3 more
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Active Sensing of Social Networks
This paper develops an active sensing method to estimate the relative weight (or trust) agents place on their neighbors' information in a social network.
Leshem, Amir +2 more
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Linking Geosocial Sensing with the Socio-Demographic Fabric of Smart Cities
Technological advances have enabled new sources of geoinformation, such as geosocial media, and have supported the propagation of the concept of smart cities.
Frank O. Ostermann
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Towards Crowdsourcing Internet of Things (Crowd-IoT): Architectures, Security and Applications
Crowdsourcing can play an important role in the Internet of Things (IoT) applications for information sensing and gathering where the participants are equipped with geolocated devices.
Kenneth Li Minn Ang +2 more
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Commuting Analysis of the Budapest Metropolitan Area Using Mobile Network Data
The analysis of human movement patterns based on mobile network data makes it possible to examine a very large population cost-effectively and has led to several discoveries about human dynamics.
Gergő Pintér, Imre Felde
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The urban functional area is critical to an understanding of the complex urban system, resource allocation, and management. However, due to urban surveys’ focus on geographic objects and the mixture of urban space, it is difficult to obtain such ...
Shouzhi Chang +5 more
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