Crowdsourcing with Smartphones

Author

Chatzimilioudis, Georgios ; Konstantinidis, Andreas ; Laoudias, Christos ; Zeinalipour-Yazti, Demetrios

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

Volume

16

Issue

5

fYear

2012

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

44

Abstract

Smartphones can reveal crowdsourcing´s full potential and let users transparently contribute to complex and novel problem solving. This emerging area is illustrated through a taxonomy that classifies the mobile crowdsourcing field and through three new applications that optimize location-based search and similarity services based on crowd-generated data. Such applications can be deployed on SmartLab, a cloud of more than 40 Android devices deployed at the University of Cyprus that provides an open testbed to facilitate research and development of smartphone applications on a massive scale.

Keywords

classification; cloud computing; mobile computing; smart phones; Android devices; SmartLab; University of Cyprus; cloud; crowd-generated data; location-based search; mobile crowdsourcing field; problem solving; similarity services; smartphones; taxonomy; Crowdsourcing; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Internet; Mobile communication; Outsourcing; Search problems; Servers; Smart phones; crowdsourcing; mobile networks; smartphones;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIC.2012.70

Filename

6216342