Management of crowd information in public transportation (PT) systems is crucial, both to
foster sustainable mobility, by increasing the user's comfort and satisfaction during normal …

This paper presents the results from a quality and usability analysis of participatory land
registration (PaLaR) in Indonesia's rural areas, focusing on data quality, cost, and time …

This paper presents an observatory for registering applications that use participatory
sensing to collect data. Cataloging these applications will aid the scientific community to …

Abstract Interest in Citizen Science has grown significantly over the last decade. Much of this
interest can be traced to the provision of sophisticated platforms that enable seamless …

In this paper, we discuss the importance of gameplay as a valuable tool in citizen sensing
initiatives aimed at enabling creative collaboration and civic engagement. We present a …

Every day employees learn about things happening in their company. This includes plain
facts witnessed while on the job, related or not to one's job responsibilities. Many of these …

Summary Most advanced Internet of Things solutions today are more than just technology.
This chapter first introduces crowdsourcing and human‐in‐the‐loop (HITL), two related …

Research and development of applications for smart cities are extremely relevant
considering the various problems that population growth will bring to large urban centers in …

Monitoring the environment is essential in smart cities. Buildings in urban areas make line of
sight communication challenging since communication between sensor nodes has to take …

A method for context-dependent emergency reporting includes receiving at a processor of a
cellular phone a signal indicative of detecting a contextual cue. The exemplary method also …