CHI 2011 : conference proceedings and extended abstracts
Book subtitle
the 29th annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems : Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 07-12, 2011
ISBN
9781450302685
ISBN (electronic)
9781450302289
Event
SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’11)
Pages (from-to)
1855-1860
Publisher
New York: ACM Press
Organisations
Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract
We present an application that facilitates environmental monitoring by and for the general public. 'Canary in a Coal Mine' (CIACM) gathers and analyses pollution-related tweets in real-time from the micro-blogging platform Twitter and visualizes temporal and spatial characteristics of the data. CIACM allows citizens to keep track of the environmental quality of their region and empowers users to contribute to this public environmental monitoring system.