Title
Hybrid Crowdsensing: A Novel Paradigm to Combine the Strengths of Opportunistic and Participatory Crowdsensing.
Abstract
Crowdsensing systems can be either participatory or opportunistic, depending on whether the user intentionally contributes data, or she simply acts as the bearer of a sensing device from which data is transparently collected. In this paper, we propose hybrid crowdsensing, a social media-based paradigm which aims at combining the strengths of both participatory and opportunistic crowdsensing. With hybrid crowdsensing, possibly relevant data is collected via an opportunistic approach. Then, users that spontaneously contributed are directly contacted and asked to provide additional information following a participatory approach. To demonstrate its feasibility and usefulness, we experimented the proposed paradigm for involving Twitter users in an emergency relief scenario. For each of the two real-world experiments we analyze the answer ratio to our questions, their time distribution, and responders' willingness to collaborate. Results support the adoption of hybrid crowdsensing, especially in those practical scenarios where users are emotionally involved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3041021.3051155
WWW (Companion Volume)
Field
DocType
Citations 
Data mining,Time distribution,World Wide Web,Social media,Computer science,Collective intelligence,Crowdsensing,Citizen journalism
Conference
11
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
21
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
M. Avvenuti1374.91
Salvatore Bellomo2110.48
Cresci, S.323521.79
Mariantonietta Noemi La Polla4171.94
Maurizio Tesconi528132.06