Stop the Noise!: Enhancing Meaningfulness in Participatory Sensing with Community Level Indicators

Saskia Coulson; Melanie Woods; Michelle  Scott; Drew Hemment; M Balestrini

doi:10.1145/3196709.3196762

Stop the Noise! Enhancing Meaningfulness in Participatory Sensing with Community Level Indicators

Saskia Coulson
, Melanie Woods
, Michelle Scott
, Drew Hemment
, M Balestrini

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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Abstract

In this paper we examine ways to make data more meaningful and useful for citizens in participatory sensing. Participatory sensing has evolved as a digitally enabled grassroots approach to data collection for citizens with shared concerns. However, citizens often struggle to understand data in relation to their daily lives, and use them effectively. This paper presents a qualitative study on the development of a novel approach to Community Level Indicators (CLIs) during two participatory sensing projects focused on noise pollution. It investigates how CLIs can provide an infrastructure to address challenges in participatory sensing, specifically, making data meaningful and useful for non-experts. Furthermore, we consider how this approach moves towards an ambition of achieving change and impact through participatory sensing and discuss the challenges in this way of working and provide recommendations for future use of CLIs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1183-1192
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-5198-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196762
Publication status	Published - 8 Jun 2018
Event	Design interactive Systems 2018 - The School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China Duration: 9 Jun 2018 → 13 Jun 2018 http://dis2018.org/

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Conference	Design interactive Systems 2018
Abbreviated title	DIS 2018
Country/Territory	China
City	Hong Kong
Period	9/06/18 → 13/06/18
Internet address	http://dis2018.org/

Keywords

Community Level Indicators
Noise pollution
Participatory Sensing
Research Methods
Co-Design

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Coulson, S, Woods, M, Scott, M, Hemment, D & Balestrini , M 2018, Stop the Noise! Enhancing Meaningfulness in Participatory Sensing with Community Level Indicators. in Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 1183-1192, Design interactive Systems 2018, Hong Kong, China, 9/06/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196762

Stop the Noise! Enhancing Meaningfulness in Participatory Sensing with Community Level Indicators. / Coulson, Saskia; Woods, Melanie; Scott, Michelle et al.
Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018. p. 1183-1192.

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Stop the Noise! Enhancing Meaningfulness in Participatory Sensing with Community Level Indicators

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