Mobile Crowdsourcing and Socio-Physical Analytics for Smart City Services

Explore a 54-minute lecture on mobile crowdsourcing and socio-physical analytics for smart city services. Delve into Archan Misra's research on context-aware applications deployed in Singapore over the past five years. Learn how combining human-centric and infrastructural sensing enables finer-grained, proactive understanding of urban conditions and events. Discover the intricacies of urban mobile crowdsourcing, including task recommendations based on predicted worker movement trajectories. Examine real-world deployment experiences on university campuses and across cities, highlighting the importance of incorporating human behavioral dynamics into crowdsourcing solutions. Investigate recent work on socio-physical analytics, which fuses sensor data from urban resources with social media sensing to identify and characterize urban micro-events. Understand how fine-grained spatiotemporal event localization can aid urban planners in precisely characterizing socio-economic activities of city neighborhoods. Gain insights from Archan Misra's extensive research career spanning academics and industry, focusing on wireless networking, mobile & pervasive computing, and urban sensing.