Previous or Related Work

From CENS Urban Sensing

Links

• newassignment.net open source reporting
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(through 08-Oct-06)

• murmur: audio in parks in san jose
• Troika SMS Guerrilla Projector
• waymarkr life caching
• camera-less photos (button)
• EnvironmentXML proposes a kind of "RSS feed" for tagged environmental data, enabling anyone to release realtime environmental data from a physical object or space in XML format via the internet in such a way that this content becomes part of the input data to spaces/interfaces/objects designed by other people.
• sensing the city a lecture by r murray schafer
• the "ear to the earth" festival happening next week in nyc
• an introduction to acoustic ecology... the section on r murray schafer is great.
• soundwalk projects
• city noise: a report of the urban noise task force from the city of vancouver (1997)
• Timelapse phonography is the name for this technique, which collapses sounds into smaller frames of time than they originally lasted, much like a long-exposure photograph can compress a sequence of visual events into a single image. This process generates an overall impression of the sound fed into it, blurring and fusing its features into singular, sustained, and very rich tones. This record documents three pieces made using this technique, drawing on source material from the rich aural documentation of the 20th Century (the first century to really have such artifacts).
• Baghdad San Francisco
• Context Phone info
• Labview pda
• Sensor data to fight pollution
• Phones Could Soon Alert Users to Harmful Chemicals and Gases in ...
• Place Lab is software providing low-cost, easy-to-use device positioning for location-enhanced computing applications. Place Lab tries to provide positioning which works worldwide, both indoors and out (unlike GPS which only works well outside). Place Lab clients can determine their location privately without constant interaction with a central service (unlike badge tracking or mobile phone location services where the service owns your location information).
• Skyhook Wireless provides a software-only positioning system that leverages a nationwide database of known Wi-Fi access points to calculate the precise location of any Wi-Fi enabled device.
• Audio shaping compressed video art installation
• Sauter's work, which compresses an image into single pixel wide chunks, does something like this, but in reverse...
• Face Of Sydney
• http://salavon.com/EAO3/EAO3_inst.php?num=2
• http://daniel-sauter.com/display.php?project_id=10
• Wibree from Nokia
• Biomapping is a research project beginning in London from January 2004 and on-going, which explores new ways that we as individuals can make use of the information we can gather about our own bodies. Instead of security technologies that are designed to control our behaviour, this project envisages new tools that allows people to selectively share and interpret their own biometric data.
• Vernier USB temperature sensors
• Supplier of SenseCam lenses
  • We are using V-4301.9-2.0FT in SenseCam, see http://www.mars-cam.com/lenses/ccd_cmos/43fix.html.
• citizens media summit
• AIR is a public, social experiment in which people are invited to use Preemptive Media's portable air monitoring devices to explore their neighborhoods and urban environments for pollution and fossil fuel burning hotspots.
• "Web 2.0 is all the Web sites out there that get their value from the actions of users."
• Realtime rome
• light emitting textiles
• Now that you have them, if you have a Windows Mobile device available, you may want to try the AURA client
• community journalism
• New Scientist article on sensors in pollution detection
• Smartpox barcode reader
• New Yorker Article: Surveillance Society
  • http://www.steamthing.com/2006/09/massobservation.html
• "The Register reports that Google plans to use PC microphones to collect statistics on a user's environment. Peter Norvig, who directs research at Google, told Technology Review that this software would start to show up in Google software 'sooner rather than later'. The software collects short sound clips and removes background noise. Google then targets its ads based on the statistics collected. With the current level of online privacy, this new level of invasion would seem to have frightening possibilities."
  • http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060609-7028.html
  • http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/09/03/2148216.shtml
• Google (sorta) OCR
• Google Image Labeler
• Bluetooth AD
• EPA Right to know page
• Culver City, California, the first Los Angeles municipality to offer the public free WiFi, has now installed a program to filter illegal and problematic content from their network, notes GovTech and Broadband Reports.
• "the wi-fi in your handset"
• handheld augmented reality
• a web blog in which the author literally & metaphorically bares his heart. the artist-blogger wears a GPS-enabled Heart-rate monitor throughout parts of the day, then blogs the data along with matching personal experiences, events, & musings.
• The ruggedized pda site
• bluetooth detectors
• Code 39 barcoding
• Stewart Butterfield on the Basics of “Participatory Media” | AlwaysOn
• TrollTech open source linux phone
• Bottom up
• Cell phone disco
• batoo
• flickrtagfight
• lifelog pod Japan's No. 2 telecom operator KDDI Corp said yesterday that it had developed a server which keeps an electronic record of the smallest events in a person's life and lets others sift through them.
• Tabulator works by exploring the web of relationship between things, loading more data from the web as you go. Then, if you find a pattern of information you are interested in, it will search for all occurrences of that pattern and display them in tables, maps, calendars, and so on.
• Can You See Me Now? is a chase game played live online and in the streets. Online players are dropped at random locations into a virtual map of Banff. Blast Theory runners search for you in the very real streets using GPS, tracking your avatar down as you flee online. Can You See Me Now? won the Golden Nica for Interactive Art at the 2003 Prix Ars Electronica, is a collaboration with the Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham, and is supported by the Arts Council of England.
• Ike rapid data capture for mobile mapping
• AHRQ Evidence reports and summaries, Community-based Participatory Research: Assessing the Evidence
• NIH Community Participation in Research Letters of Intent Receipt Date (s): April 17 2007 Application Receipt Dates(s): May 17 2007
• Getty Conservation Institute (GCI)'s Los Angeles Historic Resource Survey project
• Later this idea evolved into a system of gadgets in order to let users listen to their music creations both in silence and in public, as well as geo-tag (tag data at a certain location) their creations. This system of gadgets including the sound cap, the recording buttom, the badge + earphone for listening and geo-tagging, and the boombox. However users don't have to acquire all the gadgets to use Sonic Graffiti. The basic requirement is the sound cap and the badge.
• This site will help you create and host online forms and resulting data. Not exactly what we're looking for, but maybe worth a look.
• NJ college tracking with GPS
• another ruggedized pda
• low cost real-time eye tracking
• qualcomm mobile phones for healthcare
• Participatory GIS mailing list
• PDA doing OCR
• Cell Phones Can Monitor Your Health Check Heart, Blood Sugar, More
• Yes, see HUD/EPA "Testing Your Home for Lead..."
• Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) definition
• visual test for lead paint
• visual test for water quality
• leadsafe new jersey
• UNOSAT is a United Nations programme created to provide the international community and developing countries with enhanced access to satellite imagery and Geographic Information System (GIS) services. These tools are used mainly in humanitarian relief, disaster prevention and post crisis reconstruction.
• Sandia BROOM tool can help restore facilities following release of biological warfare agents
• EPA volunteer monitoring directory
• which talks about using imager noise as a fingerprint to tie photos to specific cameras. Thought this might be relevant to some of our FIND discussion about verifiability.
• Community-Based Participatory Research as a Tool to Advance Environmental Health Sciences
• Handheld Technologies for Urban Forestry - Inventories, GIS, & More
• North Carolina Public Health Uses Mobile GIS to Assist Florida in Hurricane Wilma Aftermath
• Mobile eHealth Interventions for Obesity: A Timely Opportunity to Leverage Convergence Trends
• shotcode
• Conservation Int'l butterfly protocol
• symbol ruggedized pda
• nokia mobile webserver
• With a Cellphone as My Guide
• acoustic sensing system
• Geotagged sounds on freesound
• Streetline is a complete information system designed specifically for applications in urban resource management.
• Volunteers fan out across Hollywood to check the state of its sidewalks.
• Google geocoding service
• semacode
• sphinx open source voice recognition from CMU
• e-bird
• http://greatbasin.nbii.gov/cbm/
• RRDtool
• mrtg
• Los Angeles Citywide Alliance ofNeighborhood Councils
• open source ocr
• Katy Borner
• http://yellowarrow.net
• http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/gps.mspx
• http://www.wwmx.org/
• Los Angeles citizen-filed complaints
• Imager as meter reader
• multiuser table interaction
  • http://www.edwardtse.com/
• code amber - electronic amber alerts
• Unblinking: New Perspectives on Visual Privacy in the 21st Century (Nov 3-4, 2006)
• objects of wonderment (urban atmospheres, intel)
• companies helping you search for parking efficiently
• fallen fruit
  • http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4967131
• FEASIBILITY STUDY OF USING PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (PCS) TECHNOLOGY TO CONSERVE WATER STUDY
• county-wide arial photography
• New Yorker: The Science of Driving Directions
• Think of Radar as a visual conversation between you and your friends.

Instantly post pictures from your cameraphone and they're available to your invited friends on nearly any mobile phone or PC. They comment, you respond. They post, you comment, you post again.

• Sprint Family Locator Service
• auditory scene analysis
• Project for Public Spaces
• The camera never blinks, but it multiplies
• Cabspotting: an alternate view of a living city
• RFID mesh networks for disasters
• AR on a cell phone
• FON: grassroots movements for internet access everywhere
• walmart sensors
• location-tagging photos
• ubiquitous sensing future
• Using cell phones to track employees

• grafedia: words written anywhere, then linked to images, video or sound files online.
• Mobile Phone Tracking
• Life Blog
• Dodgeball Mobile Social Network
• Sensing the City
• Urban Polution Sensors
• Equator: integration of physical and digital interaction
• Bike-mounted pollution sensors and bluejacking to rate the air we breathe
• UCSC Social Computing Lab
  • Street Stories
• Can You See Me Now?
• Uncle Roy All Around You
• PacManhattan
• Mogi
• List of mobile phone games
• Singing Bridges
• Links to recording the sound of New York
• New Jersey Institute of Technology: connecting students by cell phones and other wireless communication devices
• Nokia New York story mashup

Papers

• Borner, Katy. Social diffusion patterns in three-dimensional virtual worlds
  • http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/paper/03-ivj-diffusion.pdf

• Capture the Flag: Mixed-Reality Social Gaming with Smart Phones Cheok, A.D.; Sreekumar, A.; Cao Lei; Le Nam Thang http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/7756/34133/01626209.pdf

• T. S. Parikh. Using mobile phones for secure, distributed document processing in the developing world. IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, 4(2):74-81, April 2005.
  • http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/7756/30819/01427652.pdf?tp=&arnumber=1427652&isnumber=30819
  • http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/tapan/papers/32-39.pdf
  • http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/tapan/

• Kondratova, I. Mobile Field Data Entry for Concrete Quality Control Information Proceedings of the European Conference on Products and Processes Modelling (ECPPM 2004). Istanbul, Turkey. September 8-11, 2004. NRC Publication Number: NRC 47158.
  • http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/publications/nrc-47158_e.html

• 'Voting With Your Feet: An Investigative Study of the Relationship Between Place Visit Behavior and Preference by Jon Froehlich, Mike Y. Chen, Ian Smith, Fred Potter Ubicomp, Irvine, CA, Sept 2006
  • http://seattle.intel-research.net/people/mikechen/publications/Ubicomp2006_Froehlich_VotingWithYourFeet.pdf
  • http://seattle.intel-research.net/people/mikechen/index.asp

• Metrosense

• Carter, S. and J. Mankoff. Momento: Early-Stage Prototyping and Evaluation for Mobile Applications. Technical Report CSD-05-1380, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, 2005.
  • http://www.madpickle.net/scott/pubs/smwoz3.pdf

• Ubicomp 2006 Exurban Noir Workshop Proceedings
  • http://drzaius.ics.uci.edu/meta/exurban-noir/ExurbanNoirProceedings.pdf#search=%22exurban%20noir%20proceedings%22

• Bill Gaver, Tony Dunne and Elena Pacenti. "Cultural probes," Interactions, January-February 1999, 21-29.
  • http://remap.ucla.edu/jburke/misc/cprobes/p21-gaver.pdf

• William Gaver, Andrew Boucher, Sarah Pennington, Brendan Walker. "Cultural probes and the value of uncertainty," Interactions, September-October 2004, 53-56.
  • http://remap.ucla.edu/jburke/misc/cprobes/p53-gaver.pdf

• Eric's Urban Atmospheres paper came after this in '05:
  • http://remap.ucla.edu/jburke/misc/cprobes/p341-paulos.pdf

• Schafer, R.M. (1977) The Tuning of the World, Knopf, New York [republished in 1994 as The Soundscape Destiny Books, Rochester, Vermont]

• The Development and Use of a Tablet PC Annotation System for Conditions Surveys J. V. Banta et al. Journal of Preservation Technology 37:2-3, 2006.
• http://www.apti.org/publications/Banta-37-23.pdf

• Urban light pollution alters the diel vertical migration of Daphnia
  • http://www.wellesley.edu/Biology/Faculty/Mmoore/Content/Moore_2000.pdf

• ge lighting application bulletin (gives cie values for various outdoor lighting choices)
  • http://www.gelighting.com/na/business_lighting/education_resources/learn_about_light/spec_light_color_final.pdf#search=%22GE%20lighting%20application%20bulletin%22

• Cinzano, P., Falchi, F., Elvidge C.D. 2001, The first world atlas of the artificial night sky brightness,
  • http://www.inquinamentoluminoso.it/cinzano/download/0108052.pdf

• A software toolkit for acoustic respiratory analysis Yi, Gina Ann
  • https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/33391
  • https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/1721.1/33391/1/62560199.pdf (not printable)
  • Provides initial work on analysing breathing sounds to detect respiratory problems (analysing crackles, wheezes, etc.)

• http://www.mangolassi.org/covell/pubs/euroITV-2006.pdf This paper describes mass personalization, a framework for combining mass media with a highly personalized Web-based experience. We introduce four applications for mass personalization: personalized content layers, ad hoc social communities, real-time popularity ratings and virtual media library services. Using the ambient audio originating from the television, the four applications are available with no more effort than simple television channel surfing. Our audio identification system does not use dedicated interactive TV hardware and does not compromise the user's privacy. Feasibility tests of the proposed applications are provided both with controlled conversational interference and with "living-room" evaluations.

• The Ninja Architecture for Robust Internet-Scale Systems and Services, by Steven D. Gribble, Matt Welsh, Rob von Behren, Eric A. Brewer, David Culler, N. Borisov, S. Czerwinski, R. Gummadi, J. Hill, A. Joseph, R.H. Katz, Z.M. Mao, S. Ross, and B. Zhao. To appear in a Special Issue of Computer Networks on Pervasive Computing. (.ps.gz, 595 KB).
  • http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/gribble00ninja.html

• Agrawal, R., et al. (2007) "Enabling the 21st Century Healthcare Information Technology Revolution." Communications of the ACM 50(2):35-42.
  • PAPER: http://remap.ucla.edu/jburke/misc/Agrawal07.pdf
  • WEBSITE: http://almaden.ibm.com/cs/projects/iis/hdb/hdb_projects.shtml
  • SLIDES 1: http://www.lecs.cs.ucla.edu/urban-sensing/images/8/8c/HippocraticDatabase.pdf
  • SLIDES 2: http://almaden.ibm.com/cs/projects/iis/hdb/EB_Site/Slides_HDB_Finance_March_2006.pdf