Citizens as Sensors
Mobiles as catalysts for engagement and knowledge
@jldevicente
José Luis de Vicente Mobile 2.0
www.elastico.net ESADE | Barcelona ES
Barcelona ES 19 / 06 / 2009

A Tale of Barcelona Gargoyles
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joining the dots
fast, cheap, out of control science
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joining the dots
fast, cheap, out of control science
+ passive and active data aggregation
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2008 Personal annual report for José Luis De Vicente
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Lisbon Zaragoza Gaüses Linz Amsterdam Riga Madrid Sevilla
May 08 to May 10 Jul 06 to Jul 08 Aug 01 to Sep 03 Sep 03 to Sep 08 Sep 24 to Sep 27 Oct 16 to Oct 19 Nov 03 to Nov 18 Dec 22 to Dec 25
You took 33 trips in 2008, which added In 2008, you spent
up to 38,684 km or 10% of the
distance to the moon.
235 131
In 2008, you mostly coincided with:
You have 41 travellers in your network. They travelled a
total of 2,113,067 km in 2008, and everyone on Dopplr
Steven travelled a total of 1331.4 million km or 8.9 AU in 2008:
the approximate distance to Saturn from the Earth as
in Madrid and Linz
of January 2009.
edgar
Your personal velocity for 2008 was 4.11
in Madrid km/h, which is about the same as a duck. You spent the longest in Gaüses. Your carbon for 2008
Marta
The 5 most popular cities in your network are New
in Madrid
York, Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin and London.
Javier
in Madrid, Linz and Amsterdam
The furthest distance you travelled was to Riga (2,335
Enrique km from Barcelona), which is the 128th most popular
city on Dopplr. The shortest distance you travelled was 5,179 kg CO2
in Madrid to Middlesbrough (53 km from Newcastle upon Tyne), Based on figures from Fueleconomy.gov, 1 x Hummer
which is the 831st most popular city on Dopplr. H3 4WD truck produces nearly 10 metric tonnes of
CO2 a year. The visualisation above uses this figure to
illustrate your carbon from Dopplr as calculated by our
friends at http://amee.cc and is an approximation only.
The city images above sourced from Flickr and are used under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence: Basilica del Pilar, sunset by Paulo Brandão, Segni della memoria by Paolo Tonon, BicycleroofAmsterdam by Dan Kamminga, The new Cathedral by aigarius,
2008-07-30-003 by Alex // Berlin (Busy in Madrid) and Old + new by clspeace.

joining the dots
fast, cheap, out of control science
+ passive and active data aggregation
+ civic engagement
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joining the dots
fast, cheap, out of control science
+ passive and active data aggregation
+ civic engagement + crowdsourcing
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sound
pictures and video
location and orientation
active and passive,
dynamically and updatable

4,000,000,000

Center for Embedded Network Sensing - Participatory Sensing

what can be sensed?

what can be sensed?
health, environment

Natalie Jeremijenko - Feral Robotic Dogs

Preemptive Media - AIR

Common Sense - Street Sweepers

what can be sensed?
health, environment urban planning

CENS- Biketastic!

CENS- Garbage Watch

Diycity.org

what can be sensed?
health, environment urban planning
cultural diversity subjective experience

Thanks!
@jldevicente
j@elastico.net
José Luis de Vicente Mobile 2.0
www.elastico.net ESADE | Barcelona ES
Barcelona ES 19 / 06 / 2009