Evaluating Participation and Performance in Participatory Sensing

In International Workshop on Urban, Community, and Social Applications of Networked Sensing Systems (UrbanSense) at Sensys , 5 pages , November 2008.

NESL Technical Report #: TR-UCLA-NESL-200810-03

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’ fit with any given sensing project, and describes experiments evaluating the resulting reputation system.

• Sasank Reddy
• Katie Shilton
• Jeff Burke
• Deborah Estrin
• Mark Hansen
• Mani B Srivastava

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• PICK : A Framework for Choosing Data Collectors in Participatory Sensing

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