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This chapter provides an overview of how humans can themselves act as sensors—human sensing—for data collection by considering a variety of scenarios. We start by providing a survey of literature, followed by proposed guidelines, and lastly discussing case studies which exemplify using humans for sensing and data collection. We present human sensing in three technical domains:
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This work is partially funded by the Academy of Finland (Grants 276786-AWARE, 285062-iCYCLE, 286386-CPDSS, 285459-iSCIENCE), the European Commission (Grants PCIG11-GA-2012-322138 and 645706-GRAGE), an IBM Open Collaboration Research Award, and by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (Grant CMU-PT/SE/0028/2008).
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Kostakos, V., Rogstadius, J., Ferreira, D., Hosio, S., Goncalves, J. (2017). Human Sensors. In: Loreto, V., et al. Participatory Sensing, Opinions and Collective Awareness. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25658-0_4
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