Participatory Sensing: Recruiting Bipedal Platforms or Building Issue-centred Projects?

Nold, C. and Francis, L. (2017). Participatory Sensing: Recruiting Bipedal Platforms or Building Issue-centred Projects? In: Loreto, V. ed. Participatory Sensing, Opinions and Collective Awareness. Springer, pp. 213–235.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25658-0_11

Abstract

This paper raises questions about the way in which participation and recruitment are framed within participatory sensing. The text outlines a number of assumptions of participatory sensing and using a case study, examines the impacts of these assumptions on the practices of participatory sensing. The case study involves a mobile phone app that monitors ambient sound levels and creates noise maps. The study describes the conceptual and practical challenges of recruiting people and the need for an issue-centred campaign that encases the app inside a wider framework of local environmental issues. Based on observations from the case study, the paper proposes a pragmatic approach to sensing that focuses on designing sensing assemblages that support local issues of public concern. The paper argues that an issue-centred approach enables sensing that allows both machines and humans to participate in an equitable way that maximises their unique sensing abilities.

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