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 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 […]
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 […]
DietSense assists participants who want to lose weight by documenting their dietary choices through images and sound samples. The mobile phones are worn on necklaces and automatically take images of […]
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 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 […]
MobiShop is a distributed computing system designed to collect, process and deliver product pricing information from street-side shops to potential buyers, on their mobile phones. In addition, it can also serve as an […]