‘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.
Communities can be defined as communities of place, communities of practice, as well as more cultural communities. These delineations form a way to organize and direct an overwhelming volume of social data. In this way the community definition can help frame the types of sensing data collected.
References
- Aggarwal, C. C., & Abdelzaher, T. (2013). Social sensing. In Managing and mining sensor data (pp. 237-297). Springer, Boston, MA.
- Wang, D., Abdelzaher, T., & Kaplan, L. (2015). Social sensing: building reliable systems on unreliable data. Morgan Kaufmann.
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