[CPCC] TALK: Participatory Urban Sensing 11/28 10 AM

Ender Ayanoglu ayanoglu at uci.edu
Sun Nov 26 14:33:53 PST 2006


					TALK

			      Participatory Urban Sensing

                     Jeff Burke, Mani Srivastava and Deborah Estrin
                   Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), UCLA

                                Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006
		                        10 AM
 	                     Calit2 Building, Room 3008


				       Abstract

Two billion people carry mobile phones. These ubiquitous devices can act
as sensor nodes: they are increasingly capable of capturing, classifying
and transmitting image, acoustic, location and other data, interactively
or autonomously. Though there is much interest and research in distributed
sensing for the sciences, industry and defense, we know much less about
its function and utility in the public sphere, when the components are
owned and operated by everyday users. As sensors, network-connected mobile
handsets will be embedded near the ultimate elusive subjects: people and
their built environments.  Instead of being in the hands of a central
observer, these sensors are always-on and under their owners' control.
Leveraging them effectively and conscientiously will require models that
prioritize user participation in sensing.

Participatory urban sensing tasks everyday mobile devices, such as cellular
phones, to form interactive, participatory sensor networks that enable
public and professional users to gather, analyze and share local knowledge.
This talk presents motivations, applications and an initial architecture to
enhance data credibility, quality, privacy and 'shareability' in such
networks. A campaign application model will be described that encompasses
directed sensing applications at personal, social and urban scales. Example
applications will be outlined in four areas: urban planning, public health,
cultural identity and creative expression, and natural resource management.


				Speaker Biographies

Jeff Burke has designed, managed or produced performances, new genre art
installations and capital projects in eight countries during the last
seven years. He is executive director of REMAP, the Center for Research in
Engineering, Media and Performance at UCLA, a joint program of the School
of Theater, Film and Television and Henry Samueli School of Engineering
and Applied Science. He is currently focusing on urban public space uses
for mobile, embedded and media technologies, including approaches that
involve communities in system specification and design.
http://remap.ucla.edu/jburke/

Mani Srivastava received his Ph.D. in EECS from U.C. Berkeley in 1992.
Currently he is a professor on the electrical engineering faculty at UCLA.
His current interests are in embedded sensing, wireless systems, power-
aware computing and communications, and pervasive computing and sensing.
More information about him and his research group is available at his
Networked and Embedded Systems Lab's web site http://nesl.ee.ucla.edu
<http://nesl.ee.ucla.edu/>

Deborah Estrin is a professor of computer science and electrical
engineering at UCLA, holds the Jon Postel Chair in Computer Networks,
and is founding director of the NSF-funded Center for Embedded Networked
Sensing (CENS). Estrin received her Ph.D. (1985) in computer science from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her B.S. (1980) from U.C.
Berkeley. Before joining UCLA she was a member of the University of
Southern California Computer Science Department, where much of her research
focused on the design of network and routing protocols. Her current
research focuses on the application of spatially and temporally dense
embedded sensors to environmental monitoring, including participatory-
sensing systems, leveraging the installed base of image and acoustic
sensors on cell phones.

Part of RESCUE 2006 Seminar Series. Sponsored by Calit2 and the Donald
Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. Faculty sponsor is Sharad
Mehrotra. For more information, contact Jean Chin, (949) 824-1147,
jean.chin at uci.edu.

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