COMMUNITY MEMORIES FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN LIVING

Ellie D'Hondt, Matthias Stevens

2010

Abstract

We propose a particular approach by which computer science can aid on the technological side of sustainable development, which at the same time contributes to raising people’s awareness of the issues at hand. In particular we develop a so-called community memory for urban environmental measurement surveys, focusing on noise, microclimate and atmospheric pollution. Our goal is to gather data both in a quantitative way, using participatory mobile sensing, and in a qualitative way, by social tagging. In this way we provide a method for environmental monitoring which is complementary to current modelling approaches.

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D'Hondt E. and Stevens M. (2010). COMMUNITY MEMORIES FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN LIVING . In Proceedings of the Multi-Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT - Volume 1: ICGREEN, (INNOV 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-15-7, pages 77-80. DOI: 10.5220/0003039600770080


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icgreen10,
author={Ellie D'Hondt and Matthias Stevens},
title={COMMUNITY MEMORIES FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN LIVING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Multi-Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT - Volume 1: ICGREEN, (INNOV 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={77-80},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003039600770080},
isbn={978-989-8425-15-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Multi-Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT - Volume 1: ICGREEN, (INNOV 2010)
TI - COMMUNITY MEMORIES FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN LIVING
SN - 978-989-8425-15-7
AU - D'Hondt E.
AU - Stevens M.
PY - 2010
SP - 77
EP - 80
DO - 10.5220/0003039600770080