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City Probe: The Crowdsourcing Platform Driven by Citizen-Based Sensing for Spatial Identification and Assessment

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Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering (CDVE 2016)

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce the City Probe, a participatory sensing system that can quantify citizens’ perception of places. City Probe recruits citizens to participate in the spatial identification and assessment. It includes the smartphone APP that allows citizens to photo and rate their locational characteristics according to some issues. Their contributions, with latitude and longitude coordinates, would be uploaded and quantified in the City Probe cloud platform and visualized into a weighted map that reveals the collective out-come based on citizens’ cooperation. Pilot studies in the campus have been accomplished. The collected geospatial data is represented in terms of the weighted map for disclosure of Information and decision-making supports.

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Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge the support from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. This research was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, under contract MOST104-2221-E-035-024-. We also thank project co-principal investigator Wei-Kuang Liu.

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  1. Department of Architecture, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Yang Ting Shen

  2. Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Information, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Yi Shiang Shiu

  3. Center of Environmental Studies, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

    Peiwen Lu

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Shen, Y.T., Shiu, Y.S., Lu, P. (2016). City Probe: The Crowdsourcing Platform Driven by Citizen-Based Sensing for Spatial Identification and Assessment. In: Luo, Y. (eds) Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering. CDVE 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9929. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46771-9_9

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