The recent wave of sensor-rich, Internet-enabled, smart mobile devices such as the Apple
iPhone has opened the door for a novel paradigm for monitoring the urban landscape …

Across HCI and social computing platforms, mobile applications that support citizen science,
empowering non-experts to explore, collect, and share data have emerged. While many of …

Reputation systems are fundamental for assessing the quality of user contributions in
participatory sensing. However, naively associating reputation scores to contributions allows …

Mobile sensing is becoming a popular paradigm to collect information from and outsource
tasks to mobile users. These applications deal with lot of personal information, eg, identity …

Participatory sensing is emerging as an innovative computing paradigm that targets the
ubiquity of always-connected mobile phones and their sensing capabilities. In this paper, a …

Recent mobile applications empower citizens to monitor noise pollution or report on features
of their urban environment. One important aspect of urban life has, however, not been …

Mobile crowd sensing (MCS) is a new paradigm which leverages the ubiquity of sensor-
equipped mobile devices such as smartphones, music players, and in-vehicle sensors at the …

European Alpine glaciology has a long tradition of studies and activities, in which
researchers have often relied on the field work of some specialized volunteer operators …

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Violence and crime in large urban areas are a worldwide problem that is still open. After
several attempts to reduce its occurrence and impact, there seems to be an agreement that …