Examining micro-payments for participatory sensing data collections

Authors:
Sasank Reddy;Deborah Estrin;Mark Hansen;Mani Srivastava
Affiliations:
University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA;University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA;University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA;University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Year:
2010

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Abstract

The rapid adoption of mobile devices that are able to capture and transmit a wide variety of sensing modalities (media and location) has enabled a new data collection paradigm - participatory sensing. Participatory sensing initiatives organize individuals to gather sensed information using mobile devices through cooperative data collection. A major factor in the success of these data collection projects is sustained, high quality participation. However, since data capture requires a time and energy commitment from individuals, incentives are often introduced to motivate participants. In this work, we investigate the use of micro-payments as an incentive model. We define a set of metrics that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of incentives and report on findings from a pilot study using various micro-payment schemes in a university campus sustainability initiative.