Envisioning information
Voyagers and voyeurs: supporting asynchronous collaborative information visualization
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ManyEyes: a Site for Visualization at Internet Scale
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
The BikeNet mobile sensing system for cyclist experience mapping
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Urban sensing: out of the woods
Communications of the ACM - Urban sensing: out of the woods
Design considerations for collaborative visual analytics
Information Visualization - Special issue on visual analytics science and technology
N-smarts: networked suite of mobile atmospheric real-time sensors
Proceedings of the second ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Networked systems for developing regions
MobGeoSen: facilitating personal geosensor data collection and visualization using mobile phones
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Pathfinder: an online collaboration environment for citizen scientists
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Common Sense: participatory urban sensing using a network of handheld air quality monitors
Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
OpenSense: open community driven sensing of environment
Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming
Creek watch: pairing usefulness and usability for successful citizen science
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Ceci n'est pas une pipe bombe: authoring urban landscapes with air quality sensors
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Data collection by the people, for the people
CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Paying in kind for crowdsourced work in developing regions
Pervasive'12 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Pervasive Computing
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Community engagements with living sensing systems
Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition
Exploring sustainability research in computing: where we are and where we go next
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
The timestreams platform: artist mediated participatory sensing for environmental discourse
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
On heterogeneity in mobile sensing applications aiming at representative data collection
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication
A low-tech sensing system for particulate pollution
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction
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As sensing technologies become increasingly distributed and democratized, citizens and novice users are becoming responsible for the kinds of data collection and analysis that have traditionally been the purview of professional scientists and analysts. Leveraging this citizen engagement effectively, however, requires not only tools for sensing and data collection but also mechanisms for understanding and utilizing input from both novice and expert stakeholders. When successful, this process can result in actionable findings that leverage and engage community members and build on their experiences and observations. We explored this process of knowledge production through several dozen interviews with novice community members, scientists, and regulators as part of the design of a mobile air quality monitoring system. From these interviews, we derived design principles and a framework for describing data collection and knowledge generation in citizen science settings, culminating in the user-centered design of a system for community analysis of air quality data. Unlike prior systems, ours breaks analysis tasks into discrete mini-applications designed to facilitate and scaffold novice contributions. An evaluation we conducted with community members in an area with air quality concerns indicates that these mini-applications help participants identify relevant phenomena and generate local knowledge contributions.