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Awareness and Learning in Participatory Noise Sensing

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  • The development of ICT infrastructures has facilitated the emergence of new paradigms for looking at society and the environment over the last few years. Participatory environmental sensing, i.e. directly involving citizens in environmental monitoring, is one example, which is hoped to encourage learning and enhance awareness of environmental issues. In this paper, an analysis of the behaviour of individuals involved in noise sensing is presented. Citizens have been involved in noise measuring activities through the WideNoise smartphoneThe development of ICT infrastructures has facilitated the emergence of new paradigms for looking at society and the environment over the last few years. Participatory environmental sensing, i.e. directly involving citizens in environmental monitoring, is one example, which is hoped to encourage learning and enhance awareness of environmental issues. In this paper, an analysis of the behaviour of individuals involved in noise sensing is presented. Citizens have been involved in noise measuring activities through the WideNoise smartphone application. This application has been designed to record both objective (noise samples) and subjective (opinions, feelings) data. The application has been open to be used freely by anyone and has been widely employed worldwide. In addition, several test cases have been organised in European countries. Based on the information submitted by users, an analysis of emerging awareness and learning is performed. The data show that changes in the way the environment is perceived after repeated usage of the application do appear. Specifically, users learn how to recognise different noise levels they are exposed to. Additionally, the subjective data collected indicate an increased user involvement in time and a categorisation effect between pleasant and less pleasant environments.show moreshow less

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Author: Martin Becker, Saverio Caminiti, Donato Fiorella, Louise Francis, Pietro Gravino, Mordechai (Muki) Haklay, Andreas Hotho, Virrorio Loreto, Juergen Mueller, Ferdinando Ricchiuti, Vito D. P. Servedio, Alina Sirbu, Franesca Tria
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-127675
Document Type:Journal article
Faculties:Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik / Institut für Informatik
Language:English
Parent Title (English):PLOS ONE
ISSN:1932-6203
Year of Completion:2013
Volume:8
Issue:12
Pagenumber:e81638
Source:PLoS ONE 8(12): e81638. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0081638
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081638
Dewey Decimal Classification:0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
Tag:exposure
Release Date:2016/03/30
EU-Project number / Contract (GA) number:265432
OpenAIRE:OpenAIRE
Licence (German):License LogoCC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung