Community memories for sustainable urban living

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Publication Type:

Conference Paper

Authors:

Ellie D'Hondt; Matthias Stevens

Source:

INNOV 2010 – Proceedings of the 1st International Multi-Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT (Athens, Greece, July 29-31, 2010), p.77–80 (2010)

ISBN:

978-989-8425-15-7

URL:

http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2010/vub-tr-soft-10-16.pdf

Keywords:

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Abstract:

We propose a particular approach by which computer science can aid on the technological side of sustainable development, which at the same time contributes to raising people's awareness of the issues at hand. In particular we develop a so-called community memory for urban environmental measurement surveys, focusing on noise, microclimate and atmospheric pollution. Our goal is to gather data both in a quantitative way, using participatory mobile sensing, and in a qualitative way, by social tagging. In this way we provide a method for environmental monitoring which is complementary to current modelling approaches.

Notes:

Poster displayed at ICGREEN 2010 – International Conference on Green Computing (part of INNOV 2010)