Participatory

ASC Roadkill Observations

The Adventure Scientists’ Roadkill Survey recruits cyclists and runners to record roadkill observations in an effort to research and reduce animal-vehicle collisions. This data helps our partner scientist at the University […]

Urubu

Urubu Mobile is an app designed to turn users into a citizen scientists. It is part of a set of technological tools called the Urubu System. It is an initiative of the Brazilian […]

HeartPhones

Heartphones is a system for continuous heart rate monitoring comprising sensor earphones and a mobile application. By integrating sensors into earbuds and performing measurements near the tragus, our system offers […]

Fresh

Fresh is a mobile forum for community environmental awareness that uses GSM  networking  and  positioning via the cell IDs in users’ phones to let people discuss “green” issues related to […]

Transafe

Transafe is a proposed mobile platform that captures and analyses public perceptions of safety to deliver ‘crowdsourced’ collective intelligence about places in the City of Melbourne, Australia, and their affective states […]

MoVi

With MoVi the mobile phones collectively sense the surrounding ambiance to detect precursor signs (e.g., outburst of laughter, moves in the same directions) of relevant social events (e.g., speeches) and […]

Biketastic

Biketastic documents the bicycling experiences of the participants. It concentrates on the road conditions, including the roughness of the road and the noise level along the road captured by on-board accelerometers […]

Floracaching

Floracaching is a geocaching where the goal is to find specific flowers. It is a gamified app for citizen science that contributes data to Project Budburst.

LiveCompare

Livecompare provides services to identify the most economic grocery stores. The participants only need to take pictures of a product’s price tag and its barcode. The barcode is decoded into […]

Micro-Blog

Micro-Blog is a people-centric app with sensors capable of aggregating participatory as well as sensory inputs from local surroundings. These inputs can be visualized in different dimensions, such as space and […]