The Impact of Remote Sensing on the Everyday Lives of Mobile Users in Urban Areas

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Increasing urbanism creates serious ambient problems that downgrade the quality of life of citizens. Environmental awareness may help people to take more informed decisions in their everyday lives, ensuring their health and safety. The Web of Things is becoming a reality, as embedded sensors are being deployed in urban areas for environmental monitoring. These sensors are accessible and discoverable through the Web, and their services can be harnessed by mobile users on the go. In this presentation, we perform a small case study, by using mini focus groups, to identify the impact of remote sensing on the everyday lives of users. By means of UrbanRadar, an application that discovers and interacts with environmental services offered by Web-enabled urban sensors, we investigate and discuss the acceptance, influence, usefulness and potential of these services to mobile users. Finally, based on the feedback from participants, we identify eleven design patterns, important for future mobile applications involving remote sensing. This presentation is based on the following research paper: Andreas Kamilaris and Andreas Pitsillides. The Impact of Remote Sensing on the Everyday Lives of Mobile Users in Urban Areas. In Proc. of the 7th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU), Singapore, January 2014. (online at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~akamil01/papers/kamilaris_urban_casestudy.pdf)

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The Impact of Remote Sensing on
the Everyday Lives of Mobile
Users in Urban Areas
Andreas Kamilaris and Andreas Pitsillides

ICMU 2014, Singapore

8 January 2014

How can real-world services, offered
by urban sensors, be used by mobile
users to shape their everyday lives?

Impact of
remote mobile
sensing?

Design aspects
of mobile apps?

How to extract significant information
from raw data provided by hundreds of
sensors deployed nearby the user?

UrbanRadar Mobile App

Temperature Humidity Wind
Luminosity Air Quality
Noise Weather Forecast

Case Study
Two-week
period

13 Users

Two mini
focus groups

6 Undergraduate
Students

7 Postgraduate
Students

Case Study
6 Undergraduate
Students

7 Postgraduate
Students

Frequency of use: once per day

Frequency of use: once per day

More engaged with the app

Less engaged – more busy

Popular services: weather
forecast, temperature, wind, air
quality, humidity

Popular services: weather
forecast, temperature, wind

Motivation: health, curiosity, work
entertainment,

Motivation: curiosity, safety, work, sports

Activities: housework, personal
care, others (car wash)

Activities: housework, leisure,
personal care

Case Study
Urban Mashups

Event

Services employed

Asthma

Air Quality, Humidity

Leisure trip

Temperature, Wind

Football playing

Temperature, Humidity

Comfort level

Temperature, Humidity

Good weather indicator

Temperature, Wind

Personal weather monitor

Temperature, Weather Forecast

Going to the beach

Temperature, Weather Forecast, Wind

Case Study
6 Undergraduate
Students

7 Postgraduate
Students

“Useful due to dangers around us”

“Useful for outdoor activities”

“Helps to engage with the
physical environment”

“First-aid box”

“Understanding of pollution may
create some anxiety”

“A stimuli for a long-term change”

“Being informed is the first step of
change”

“It depends on the way you receive
this information”

“The application should engage with
the user, and not the opposite”

“Move from informing to suggesting”

Design Principles
1. Personalization and
User Profiling

2. Notifications and Alerting

3. Guidelines and
Recommendations

Design Principles
4. Forecasting and
Predictions

5. Accuracy and Reliability

6. Meaningful
Information

Design Principles

7. Easy creation of
Rules

8. Visualizations

9. Comparative
feedback

Design Principles

10. Locating the Source
of the Problem

11. EcoVisualizations

Larger case study
More users
Longer period
More devices/services
Better analysis
Case Study
Design Principles

Thank You!

Andreas Kamilaris
email: camel9@gmail.com

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