Dear community,
we would like to invite you all to join us next Monday . 15th of September, at 2:00pm @M-iti's Classroom, where will have Athanasios Vourvopoulos presenting his work.
He will introduce us his study and presentation untitled: Crowd-Sourcing Weather Data Collection: A Platform for Empirical Estimations and Sensory Data Collection. You can read the abstract of his presentation below:
Abstract: Motivated by the exciting novel paradigm of participatory sensing in collecting in situ automated data and human input we introduce the Atmos platform. Atmos leverages a crowd-sourcing network of mobile devices for the collection of in situ weather related sensory data, provided by available on-board sensors, along with human input, to generate highly localized information about current and future weather conditions. We present a study following a 6-month long deployment of Atmos mobile app on Google Play that gathered data from a total of 9 countries across 3 continents. We describe the underlying system infrastructure and showcase how a hybrid people-centric and environment-centric approach to weather estimation could benefit forecasting in microclimatic areas where existing weather models prove inaccurate. We also include results originating from questionnaires inquiring into how people perceive the weather, how they use technology to know about the weather and how it affects their habits.
Hope to see you there!
Best,
mn.