The First International Conference on IoT in Urban Space

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The Young and the City: Crowdsourcing Urban Awareness in a Developing Country

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.urb-iot.2014.257453,
    author={Salvador Ruiz-Correa and Darshan Santani and Daniel Gatica-Perez},
    title={The Young and the City: Crowdsourcing Urban Awareness in a Developing Country},
    proceedings={The First International Conference on IoT in Urban Space},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={URB-IOT},
    year={2014},
    month={11},
    keywords={developing country urban awareness social computing crowd-sourcing reliability analysis},
    doi={10.4108/icst.urb-iot.2014.257453}
}
  • Salvador Ruiz-Correa
    Darshan Santani
    Daniel Gatica-Perez
    Year: 2014
    The Young and the City: Crowdsourcing Urban Awareness in a Developing Country
    URB-IOT
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.urb-iot.2014.257453
Salvador Ruiz-Correa1,*, Darshan Santani2, Daniel Gatica-Perez2
  • 1: Center fro Mobile Life Studies (CMLS) CNS-IPICYT-Idiap
  • 2: Idiap research Institute - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
*Contact email: src@cmls.pw

Abstract

We present a crowdsourcing study that investigates impressions of urban spaces by young inhabitants in a city in the developing world. Our goal is to obtain collective perceptions from the actual inhabitants of the city under study, and more specifically youth (16-18 year-old) about issues like danger, accessibility, and dirtiness. We collect over 9000 judgments for 102 photos of outdoor urban spaces in a city in Central Mexico using standard scales in social sciences. We present reliability and response analyses and demonstrate how local youth can provide relevant urban insights in a crowdsourcing setting.

Keywords
developing country urban awareness social computing crowd-sourcing reliability analysis
Published
2014-11-21
Publisher
ACM
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.urb-iot.2014.257453
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