Social Sensing

What is social sensing?

‘Social sensing’ generally refers to software systems that synthesize sensor data (e.g. GPS, accelerometers) with social media (e.g. Twitter, Facebook) (Aggarwal & Abdelzaher 2013; Wang, Abdelzaher, & Kaplan 2015) to help characterize the set of social states for a given community.

The Social Sensing Notebook

Welcome

Some Applications of Social Sensing Systems

Social sensing systems can be used to monitor social states and trends associated with places and communities over time. These data can be used to: