The utilization of Information Technology has a great opportunity to be explored support students in learning the materials. Presentations can help learn new content more effectively, especially for children everyday objects. Learning made interesting, memorable, and participatory by using Augmented Reality technology. Holograms are hybrid Virtual Reality, often used amusement park rides. Gener...

This master’s thesis will present the EnviSensor project, a mobile application paired with a low-cost Bluetooth sensor module to be utilized in the collection of environmental factors via a participatory sensor network. The EnviSensor project seeks to further research in the area of environmental data collection within a participatory sensor network as well as demonstrating the viability of wid...

Participatory sensing is an emerging paradigm in which citizens everywhere voluntarily use their computational devices to capture and share sensed data from their surrounding environments in order to monitor and analyze some phenomenon (e.g., weather, road traffic, pollution, etc.). Interest in participatory sensing systems has risen since a large mobile sensor network can now be opportunistica...

Because participatory sensing – targeted campaigns where people harness mobile phones as tools for data collection – involves large and distributed groups of people, participatory sensing systems benefit from tools to measure and evaluate the contributions of individual participants. This paper develops a set of metrics to help participatory sensing organizers determine individual participants’...

Participatory Sensing is a process whereby individuals and communities use mobile phones and web services to observe, analyze, and present personal and environmental artifacts, events and experiences. In this technical report we describe a community data campaign that made use of smartphone based participatory sensing for environmental needs assessment. Community organizers defined the content ...

This article is part of the series on African primary care research and focuses on participatory action research. The article gives an overview of the emancipatory-critical research paradigm, the key characteristics and different types of participatory action research. Following this it describes in detail the methodological issues involved in professional participatory action research and runn...

Participatory Sensing is a new computing paradigm that aims to turn personal mobile devices into advanced mobile sensing networks. In this paper, we describe and evaluate two distributed strategies for processing participatory sensing data. These strategies are built on top of a decentralized architecture composed on user-contributed machines. The evaluation shows that these strategies spread t...