Community-based monitoring (CBM) is increasingly cited as a means of collecting valuable
baseline data that can contribute to our understanding of environmental change whilst …

Environmental awareness and knowledge may help people to take more informed decisions
in their everyday lives, ensuring their health and safety. The Web of Things enables …

We present the design and deployment of a bio-electronic sensing system. This system
visualizes bacterial activity inside Winogradsky columns, which incubate soil samples to …

Participatory data collection relies on the commitment of the participants to report data
continuously, which makes providing incentives to people crucial. In this case study, we …

This workshop focuses on'data-visualization activities', especially methods and challenges
for teaching and engaging with data visual-ization concepts, knowledge, and practices. For …

A novel class of mobile Internet of Things applications falls under the category of mobile
crowdsensing, whereby large amounts of sensed data are collected and shared by mobile …

Citizen science project leaders collecting field data in a hyperlocal community often face
common socio-technical challenges, which can potentially be addressed by sharing …

We present an ultra low-cost sensing system, which enables participants to see and reflect
on the particulates in their air. Drawing on prior work in paper computing, we introduce small …

Large technology companies and city councils are increasingly developing smart city
programmes: augmenting urban environments with smart and ubiquitous computing …

This dissertation explores the application of computer science methodologies, techniques,
and technologies to citizen science. Citizen science can be broadly defined as scientific …