@article{ABKSDHMMMS:14, author = {Atzmueller, Martin and Becker, Martin and Kibanov, Mark and Scholz, Christoph and Doerfel, Stephan and Hotho, Andreas and Macek, Bjoern-Elmar and Mitzlaff, Folke and Mueller, Juergen and Stumme, Gerd}, doi = {10.1080/13614568.2013.873488}, interhash = {6364e034fa868644b30618dc887c0270}, intrahash = {176e4f2816af5fe1630ed65e062900ce}, journal = {New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia}, number = 1, pages = {53--77}, title = {{Ubicon and its Applications for Ubiquitous Social Computing}}, volume = 20, year = 2014 } @article{atzmueller2014ubicon, abstract = {The combination of ubiquitous and social computing is an emerging research area which integrates different but complementary methods, techniques and tools. In this paper, we focus on the Ubicon platform, its applications, and a large spectrum of analysis results. Ubicon provides an extensible framework for building and hosting applications targeting both ubiquitous and social environments. We summarize the architecture and exemplify its implementation using four real-world applications built on top of Ubicon. In addition, we discuss several scientific experiments in the context of these applications in order to give a better picture of the potential of the framework, and discuss analysis results using several real-world data sets collected utilizing Ubicon.}, author = {Atzmueller, Martin and Becker, Martin and Kibanov, Mark and Scholz, Christoph and Doerfel, Stephan and Hotho, Andreas and Macek, Bjoern-Elmar and Mitzlaff, Folke and Mueller, Juergen and Stumme, Gerd}, doi = {10.1080/13614568.2013.873488}, eprint = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13614568.2013.873488}, interhash = {6364e034fa868644b30618dc887c0270}, intrahash = {5d1ed63c337f8473d2b5b3b6c02a5f20}, journal = {New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia}, number = 1, pages = {53-77}, title = {Ubicon and its applications for ubiquitous social computing}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13614568.2013.873488}, volume = 20, year = 2014 } @article{ubicon-2014a, abstract = {The combination of ubiquitous and social computing is an emerging research area which integrates different but complementary methods, techniques and tools. In this paper, we focus on the Ubicon platform, its applications, and a large spectrum of analysis results. Ubicon provides an extensible framework for building and hosting applications targeting both ubiquitous and social environments. We summarize the architecture and exemplify its implementation using four real-world applications built on top of Ubicon. In addition, we discuss several scientific experiments in the context of these applications in order to give a better picture of the potential of the framework, and discuss analysis results using several real-world data sets collected utilizing Ubicon.}, author = {Atzmueller, Martin and Becker, Martin and Kibanov, Mark and Scholz, Christoph and Doerfel, Stephan and Hotho, Andreas and Macek, Bjoern-Elmar and Mitzlaff, Folke and Mueller, Juergen and Stumme, Gerd}, interhash = {6364e034fa868644b30618dc887c0270}, intrahash = {75405285b34f2628eee0bc4060575697}, issn = {1361-4568}, journal = {New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia}, title = {Ubicon and its Applications for Ubiquitous Social Computing}, year = 2014 } @article{10.1371/journal.pone.0081638, abstract = {

The development of ICT infrastructures has facilitated the emergence of new paradigms for looking at society and the environment over the last few years. Participatory environmental sensing, i.e. directly involving citizens in environmental monitoring, is one example, which is hoped to encourage learning and enhance awareness of environmental issues. In this paper, an analysis of the behaviour of individuals involved in noise sensing is presented. Citizens have been involved in noise measuring activities through the WideNoise smartphone application. This application has been designed to record both objective (noise samples) and subjective (opinions, feelings) data. The application has been open to be used freely by anyone and has been widely employed worldwide. In addition, several test cases have been organised in European countries. Based on the information submitted by users, an analysis of emerging awareness and learning is performed. The data show that changes in the way the environment is perceived after repeated usage of the application do appear. Specifically, users learn how to recognise different noise levels they are exposed to. Additionally, the subjective data collected indicate an increased user involvement in time and a categorisation effect between pleasant and less pleasant environments.

}, author = {Becker, Martin and Caminiti, Saverio and Fiorella, Donato and Francis, Louise and Gravino, Pietro and Haklay, Mordechai (Muki) and Hotho, Andreas and Loreto, Vittorio and Mueller, Juergen and Ricchiuti, Ferdinando and Servedio, Vito D. P. and Sîrbu, Alina and Tria, Francesca}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0081638}, interhash = {52652b4fe271d8be4b96b2f692fe9519}, intrahash = {423a8aaa4eb317ee507143293205c76f}, journal = {PLoS ONE}, month = {12}, number = 12, pages = {e81638}, publisher = {Public Library of Science}, title = {Awareness and Learning in Participatory Noise Sensing}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0081638}, volume = 8, year = 2013 } @article{becker2013awareness, abstract = {The development of ICT infrastructures has facilitated the emergence of new paradigms for looking at society and the environment over the last few years. Participatory environmental sensing, i.e. directly involving citizens in environmental monitoring, is one example, which is hoped to encourage learning and enhance awareness of environmental issues. In this paper, an analysis of the behaviour of individuals involved in noise sensing is presented. Citizens have been involved in noise measuring activities through the WideNoise smartphone application. This application has been designed to record both objective (noise samples) and subjective (opinions, feelings) data. The application has been open to be used freely by anyone and has been widely employed worldwide. In addition, several test cases have been organised in European countries. Based on the information submitted by users, an analysis of emerging awareness and learning is performed. The data show that changes in the way the environment is perceived after repeated usage of the application do appear. Specifically, users learn how to recognise different noise levels they are exposed to. Additionally, the subjective data collected indicate an increased user involvement in time and a categorisation effect between pleasant and less pleasant environments.}, author = {Becker, Martin and Caminiti, Saverio and Fiorella, Donato and Francis, Louise and Gravino, Pietro and Haklay, Mordechai (Muki) and Hotho, Andreas and Loreto, Vittorio and Mueller, Juergen and Ricchiuti, Ferdinando and Servedio, Vito D. P. and Sîrbu, Alina and Tria, Francesca}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0081638}, interhash = {52652b4fe271d8be4b96b2f692fe9519}, intrahash = {4b843a252dfa2c2616c18aea426f9861}, issn = {1932-6203}, journal = {PLOS ONE}, month = dec, number = 12, pages = {e81638}, title = {Awareness and Learning in Participatory Noise Sensing}, volume = 8, year = 2013 }