"Canary in a coal mine" : monitoring air quality and detecting environmental incidents by harvesting Twitter

Authors
  • H. Smid
  • P. Mast
  • M. Tromp
  • A. Winterboer
Publication date 2011
Book title 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.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at
https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979890 (Final published version)
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