Evaluating Participation and Performance in Participatory Sensing
Sasank Reddy, Katie Shilton, Jeff Burke, Deborah L. Estrin, Mark H Hansen, Mani B. Srivastava · 2008
Because participatory sensing – targeted campaigns where people harness mobile phones as tools for data collection – involves large and distributed groups of people, participatory sensing systems benefit from tools to measure and evaluate the contributions of individual participants. This paper develops a set of metrics to help participatory sensing organizers determine individual participants ’ fit with any given sensing project, and describes experiments evaluating the resulting reputation system. I.