Timo Goeschl and Ole Juergens from Heidelberg University (Germany) have just published a provocative paper (paywalled, but a similar argument can be found here) about the impact of citizen science on the overall environmental quality. According to the abstract of their paper, they “show that improved citizen monitoring can even have adverse effects on environmental quality”.
ISQL2012 will take place within the 8th AIAI conference (27-30 September 2012 at Halkidiki, Greece). So, the actual workshop date is still to be announced.
From the workshop webpage: Quality of Life (QoL) is directly related to environmental pressures and conditions, including air quality, pollen, drinking and bathing water quality, noise pollution, waste […]
“Hello Quantified Self community,
My name is Brian Harding and I am a Masters student in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. I’m in the process of researching my thesis and am looking for interview participants.
I am conducting one-on-one interviews with people who do some form of tracking or quantifying […]
As multiple crisis of natural and human source hit Italy, the country becomes a natural playground to test and apply crowdsourcing techniques for emergency prevention and management. In a meeting in Bologna recent developments in this area will be discussed.
Another recommendation for you. Sadly enough, scientific literature on citizen science are rarely freely available for the citizens…
Participatory Sensing: Crowdsourcing Data from Mobile Smartphones in Urban Spaces
by Salil S. Kanhere
The recent wave of sensor-rich, Internet-enabled, smart mobile devices such as the Apple iPhone has opened the door for a […]
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