At a workshop at Google today, along with members of the CENS lab at UCLA, discussing participatory sensing and mobile data collection. Particularly excited to learn about Funf, an awesome initiative at the MIT media lab that opens up the possibilities of using Android devices as sensors.
In DC this week at the National Institutes of Health with Mark Hansen — we’re in a working group for an initiative, Open mHealth, which seeks to standardize an open-source architecture for participatory sensing in medical research. For example, high school students in underserved communities can use mobile devices to take a census of local businesses, generating an invaluable dataset for researchers and policy makers concerned with access to healthy foods and opportunities for physical recreation. It’s a difficult project, but there are some great folks involved, including from CENS at UCLA and Google. Excited to see where this goes.
