Campaigns

From CENS Urban Sensing

Wk	Date	Tech Pilot	Publish / Recruit	Execute	Evaluate
2	Jan 15	Diet II	Campaign ideas		Diet I
3	Jan 22	Location traces	Location traces	Campaign ideas	Campaign ideas
4	Jan 29	Sound level	Diet II	Location traces
6	Feb 5	Sound level	Diet II	Location traces
7	Feb 12	(Special guest)	Sound level	'Diet II	Location traces
8	Feb 19	(Spring Bk. Campaign)	Sound level	Diet II	Location traces
9	Feb 26		(Spring Bk. Campaign)	Sound level	Location traces
10	Mar 5		(Spring Bk. Campaign)	Sound level	Diet II
11	Mar 12			(Spring Bk. Campaign)	Sound level
Bk	Mar 19			(Spring Bk. Campaign)	Sound level

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Planning Resources

Campaign Prep Guidelines

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Running this week (Jan 29-Feb 2)

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Location traces (Execute)

Author: Gong / Andrew
Developers: Andrew
Description: The target is to collect gps information about 10 people in time range of 24 hours and 7 days next a few weeks.
Participants: Andrew, August, Eitan, Jason, Jeff, Gong, Nathan, Nicolai, Sasank, Vids
Data sheet (pdf): Image:Location-traces.pdf

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On Deck

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Diet II

Author: Deborah/Jeff
Developers:
Description:
Data sheet (pdf):

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Sound level

Author: Neal Richman, Charanjeet Singh, Jeff, Elisa, Stephen
Developers: Elisa Yuen, Stephen Oakley, Charanjeet Singh
Description:
Data sheet (pdf):

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Campaigns for Consideration

Urban Garbage - There are many instances of where trash accumulates in various settings where we live. For instance, if one does a walk through Westwood, we see trash on the sides of streets, in grassy areas, etc.. If this was documented (photo, location), then the information can be sent to local authorities so the proper measures can be taken. Also, the general community will be aware of this problem.
Homeless Population - Count of homeless people and location. With this, the proper resources can be built in a particular location. Examples of concentrated homeless areas include Westwood Villages and Santa Monica Beach area.
Packet Sensing - Not sure if this campaign would be relevant to our research, but no one answered my email question about campaigns... Basically, the idea is that instead of sensing data that's already out there, we have the phones emit network "packets" to be sensed by other phones. These packets can contain any data such as text that might be tagged with GPS or other useful info. Here are some possible applications:
- Automated Surveys - Companies spend money and time to gather surveys about who uses their products. This can become automated through the power of sensor networks and "participatory sensing". The companies can have all their products which have network connection (WiFi, GPRS, etc.) periodically send out special packets that identify the product such as "Nokia M80" and that are tagged with GPS info. Then they have an application for the phone that end-users can download if they want to participate in the product survey data gathering (possibly with incentives offered by the company). This application will gather these "survey packets" that are emitted by products surrounding the end-user and send them to the company. This data is valuable because it is GPS tagged so companies can observe trends in products (i.e. Los Angeles, CA seems to have many Nokia M80 users).
- Social Interaction - We may visit many places everyday and pass by many different people. For most people there is little interaction with the majority of people they pass by, when actually they might have many things in common (i.e. work at same company, like sports, etc.). Using this packet sensing idea, people can choose to participate in common interest rendezvous by emitting text packets from their cell phone containing data such as "football fan". As they walk around, others can use their phones to sense these packets and realize that someone in their near vicinity is a "football fan". This could potentially be a new way to meet interesting people that share the same interests.

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