@inbook {848, title = {Applications for Environmental Sensing in EveryAware}, booktitle = {Participatory Sensing, Opinions and Collective Awareness}, year = {2017}, pages = {135{\textendash}155}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, abstract = {This chapter provides a technical description of the EveryAware applications for air quality and noise monitoring. Specifically, we introduce AirProbe, for measuring air quality, and WideNoise Plus for estimating environmental noise. We also include an overview on hardware components and smartphone-based measurement technology, and we present the according web backend, e.g., providing for real-time tracking, data storage, analysis and visualizations. }, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-25658-0_7}, url = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-25658-0_7}, author = {Atzmueller, Martin and Becker, Martin and Molino, Andrea and Mueller, Juergen and Peters, Jan and Alina Sirbu} } @article {794, title = {Participatory Patterns in an International Air Quality Monitoring Initiative.}, journal = {PLoS One}, volume = {10}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {e0136763}, abstract = {

The issue of sustainability is at the top of the political and societal agenda, being considered of extreme importance and urgency. Human individual action impacts the environment both locally (e.g., local air/water quality, noise disturbance) and globally (e.g., climate change, resource use). Urban environments represent a crucial example, with an increasing realization that the most effective way of producing a change is involving the citizens themselves in monitoring campaigns (a citizen science bottom-up approach). This is possible by developing novel technologies and IT infrastructures enabling large citizen participation. Here, in the wider framework of one of the first such projects, we show results from an international competition where citizens were involved in mobile air pollution monitoring using low cost sensing devices, combined with a web-based game to monitor perceived levels of pollution. Measures of shift in perceptions over the course of the campaign are provided, together with insights into participatory patterns emerging from this study. Interesting effects related to inertia and to direct involvement in measurement activities rather than indirect information exposure are also highlighted, indicating that direct involvement can enhance learning and environmental awareness. In the future, this could result in better adoption of policies towards decreasing pollution.

}, issn = {1932-6203}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0136763}, author = {Alina Sirbu and Becker, Martin and Saverio Caminiti and De Baets, Bernard and Elen, Bart and Francis, Louise and Pietro Gravino and Hotho, Andreas and Ingarra, Stefano and Vittorio Loreto and Molino, Andrea and Mueller, Juergen and Peters, Jan and Ricchiuti, Ferdinando and Saracino, Fabio and Vito D P Servedio and Stumme, Gerd and Theunis, Jan and Francesca Tria and Van den Bossche, Joris} }