Participatory Sensing: Qualitative Changes in Information and Social Networks
- When?
- Thursday 21 July 2011, 11:30 to 12:30
- Where?
- 39BB02
- Open to:
- Staff, Students
- Speaker:
- Mr Aaron Mason
Recent technological advances have caused an infrastructural paradigm shift and the rapid growth of communities that are connected by virtual means. The value of the Web is growing constantly, with ever more users joining and contributing to the network. Fortunately, unlike conventional social networks, the connections in a virtual setting are clearly visible for analysis
Resources are increasingly being consumed as services, from a range of pervasive internet-connected devices. These devices are enabling participatory sensing to be conducted on a large scale. Participatory sensing enables communities to collect, analyse and share local knowledge. This relatively new form of information gathering is changing the structure of social and information networks.
The research examines the use of participatory sensing in improving engagement and interactivity with our environment. This report begins with a review of the infrastructural shift that organisations are embracing. Engagement measurement using social network analysis techniques is presented as well as exploratory work that uses public photos to identify areas of local interest in the county of Surrey.