HumanLogic Principals Karen Donoghue and Craig Newell delivered a 45-minute remote presentation with Q&A to the Tufts Department of Computer Science.
The talk was titled "Crowdsourcing data for consumer-ready environmental monitoring" and covered challenges around using crowdsourced data to design and deploy environmental monitoring at scale.
The audience included invited members of the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering.
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PM10 : inhalable particles, with diameters that are generally 10 micrometers and smaller; and
PM2.5 : fine inhalable particles, with diameters that are generally 2.5 micrometers and smaller (The average human hair is about 70 micrometers in diameter – making it 30 times larger than the largest fine particle.
HTTPS
Polling vs Push
Efficiency
Just the needed data
Cacheability
No need to download it if nothing has changed
Validity
How long is the data valid for?
When should the next poll happen?
Targeting consumers that are also technical citizen scientists
Over 18K sensors
Note that with the correct technical implementation using techniques such as lazy loading, speculative loading, etc….
May not know how often the data is being refreshed
What is the future of interaction design for large numbers of entities? - search and rule based interactions
To what extent is query language design important in designing for these kinds of interaction models?
What skills are needed for designers of these “at scale” systems? What roles do these practitioners play in organizations?