Participatory soundscape sensing

Participatory Sensing

This paper introduces the concept of participatory sensing, which tasks everyday mobile devices, such as cellular phones, to form interactive, participatory sensor networks that enable public and professional users to gather, analyze and share local knowledge. An initial architecture to enhance data credibility, quality, privacy and ‘shareability’ in such networks is described, as well as a cam...

Participatory Sensing

From Participatory Sensing to Participatory Sensemaking

As technological capabilities for capturing, aggregating, and processing large quantities of data continue to improve, the question becomes how to effectively utilise these resources. Whenever automatic methods fail, it is necessary to rely on human background knowledge, intuition, and deliberation. This creates demand for data exploration interfaces that support the analytical process, allowin...

Towards Trustworthy Participatory Sensing

Grassroots Participatory Sensing empowers people to collect and share sensor data using mobile devices across many applications, spanning intelligent transportation, air quality monitoring and social networking. In this paper, we argue that the very openness of such a system makes it vulnerable to abuse by malicious users who may poison the information, collude to fabricate information, or laun...

Participatory Sensing for Surya

Carbon dioxide and elemental carbon in soot, two byproducts of fossil fuel combustion, biofuel cooking and biomass burning, have well-documented detrimental effects on human health and the environment at local, regional and global scales [8]. Studies of health impacts estimate that indoor air pollution results in 0.5 [7, 5, 11] to 2.5 million pre-mature deaths each year in India. Environmental ...