NoiseTube: Measuring and mapping noise pollution with mobile phones

N Maisonneuve, M Stevens, ME Niessen… - … : Proceedings of the 4th …, 2009 - Springer
In this paper we present a new approach for the assessment of noise pollution involving the
general public. The goal of this project is to turn GPS-equipped mobile phones into noise …

A city in common: a framework to orchestrate large-scale citizen engagement around urban issues

M Balestrini, Y Rogers, C Hassan, J Creus… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Citizen sensing is an approach that develops and uses lightweight technologies with local
communities to collect, share and act upon data. In doing so it enables them to become …

Understanding sustained community engagement: a case study in heritage preservation in rural Argentina

M Balestrini, J Bird, P Marshall, A Zaro… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
HCI projects are increasingly evaluating technologies in the wild, which typically involves
working with communities over extended periods, often with the goal of effecting sustainable …

A city in common: explorations on sustained community engagement with bottom-up civic technologies

ME Balestrini - 2017 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
Large technology companies and city councils are increasingly developing smart city
programmes: augmenting urban environments with smart and ubiquitous computing …

Agroecology: a fertile field for human computation

P Hanappe, R Dunlop, A Maes, L Steels… - Human …, 2016 - hcjournal.org
Agroecology--the science of sustainable agriculture--offers a new and positive perspective
for the creation of sustainable food systems. We argue that, from the outset, it is important to …

Community memories for sustainable urban living

E D'Hondt, M Stevens - International Conference on Green …, 2010 - scitepress.org
We propose a particular approach by which computer science can aid on the technological
side of sustainable development, which at the same time contributes to raising people's …

[PDF][PDF] Social Computing Applications for the Next Billion Users

C Danis, M Bailey, J Christensen, J Ellis… - … Mobile Software for …, 2009 - academia.edu
As researchers who have focused on evolving and applying principles of social computing
[4] to the domain of collaboration for the past decade, we view the focal points of Mobile …