Community Development is a crucial phenomenon in development discusses. It involves
improvement of the well-being of the people through joint effort and with regards to the …

The 21st century marks an era of both progress and uncertainty. As our energy needs
become greater, many people are concerned that development affects the environment in …

In developing regions, the reach of crowdsourcing services such as Amazon Mechanical
Turk (mTurk) has been limited by the lack of adequate payment mechanisms and low …

Citizens are a fundamental component for the success of the smart cities vision. The actor-
observant duality of people in urban environments is one of the key arguments of the smart …

Semiconducting metal oxide gas chemical sensors show promise for applications in
handheld and personalized air quality monitoring systems. One limitation of these sensors is …

Participatory citizen sensing (PCS) systems are a particular type of information system
covering different activities of citizens, in which they actively report some problem they …

Designing usable tasks for coping with civic challenges can be hard without an appropriate
design environment. I explore a support environment for co-designing them with citizens. I …

Abstract As Internet of Things (IoT), originally comprising of only a few simple sensing
devices, reaches 34 billion units by the end of 2020, they cannot be defined as merely …

In urban climatology, identifying areas of similar microclimatic conditions helps to relate fine-
scale urban morphology variations to their impact on atmospheric surroundings. Mobile …

Site-based citizen science occurs when volunteers work with scientists to collect data at
particular field locations. The benefit is greater data collection at lesser cost. Yet difficulties …