TY - GEN
T1 - Constrained data acquisition for mobile citizen science applications
AU - Whitsitt, Sean
AU - Barreto, Armando
AU - Hudson, Maribel
AU - Al-Helal, Hussain
AU - Chu, Diyang
AU - Didan, Kamel
AU - Jonathan, Sprinkle
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The popularity and ubiquity of personal mobile computing devices' coupled with their powerful sensing capabilities' allow their application in the structured collection of data for societal benefit and science applications. Citizen scientists are willing users and active contributors to scientific research and applications, but if they gather data in an unconstrained or ad hoc manner, their efforts may be of little scientific value. In this paper, we present a user interface for a mobile device which is properly constrained to permit the gathering of valid scientific data. This helps to achieve the goal that any individual with a basic familiarity of the device (but not of the science) should be able to obtain useful data with little learning required. As a use case for this concept, we present a mobile application that allows user to collect location-stamped images to supplement satellite data for climate change research.
AB - The popularity and ubiquity of personal mobile computing devices' coupled with their powerful sensing capabilities' allow their application in the structured collection of data for societal benefit and science applications. Citizen scientists are willing users and active contributors to scientific research and applications, but if they gather data in an unconstrained or ad hoc manner, their efforts may be of little scientific value. In this paper, we present a user interface for a mobile device which is properly constrained to permit the gathering of valid scientific data. This helps to achieve the goal that any individual with a basic familiarity of the device (but not of the science) should be able to obtain useful data with little learning required. As a use case for this concept, we present a mobile application that allows user to collect location-stamped images to supplement satellite data for climate change research.
KW - citizen scientist
KW - domain-specific modeling
KW - iphone
KW - mobile phone programming
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U2 - 10.1145/2095050.2095095
DO - 10.1145/2095050.2095095
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84856427980
SN - 9781450311830
T3 - SPLASH'11 Workshops - Compilation Proceedings of the Co-Located Workshops: DSM'11, TMC'11, AGERE'11, AOOPES'11, NEAT'11, and VMIL'11
SP - 267
EP - 271
BT - SPLASH'11 Workshops - Compilation Proceedings of the Co-Located Workshops
T2 - ACM International Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity, SPLASH'11 and the Co-Located Workshops: DSM'11, TMC'11, AGERE'11, AOOPES'11, NEAT'11, and VMIL'11
Y2 - 23 October 2011 through 24 October 2011
ER -