REMAP contributed to “Participatory Sensing” research through collaborations with UCLA’s National Science Foundation-supported Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)—helping to coin the term in 2006.
Participatory Sensing is an approach to data collection and interpretation in which individuals, acting alone or in groups, use their personal mobile devices and web services to explore interesting aspects of their worlds systematically—ranging from health to culture.
The number of authentic topics for Participatory Sensing projects is probably as large as the number of potential participants. In all cases, however, the computational thinking needed to frame the problem, design the experiment, develop the software, and analyze the results provides very rich learning opportunities in the context of math, science, and computer science courses.
Definition from mobilzingcs.org.
CENS was supported by NSF Grant No. CCF-0120778.
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