TY - JOUR
T1 - Advances in portable sensing for urban environments: Understanding cities from a mobility perspective
AU - Birenboim, A
AU - Helbich, Marco
AU - Kwan, Mei-Po
N1 - Funding Information:
Amit Birenboim received funding from the Israel Science Foundation (grant No. 1015/19 ). Marco Helbich received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 714993 ). Mei-Po Kwan was supported by grants from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (General Research Fund Grant no. 14605920 ; Collaborative Research Fund Grant no. C4023-20GF ) and a grant from the Research Committee on Research Sustainability of Major Research Grants Council Funding Schemes of the Chinese University of Hong Kong . This work was also supported by EXPOSOME-NL, which is funded through the Gravitation program of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO grant number 024.004.017 ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - Portable sensing, in which lightweight mobile sensors are used to measure stimuli, events, and human behavior, is a new and disruptive data collection paradigm. It has several methodological advantages compared to traditional methods and is suitable for investigating the dynamism of increasingly mobile and urban societies. In this article, we discuss the motivations behind the use of portable sensing and reflect upon the advances, limitations, and future of the field. Although portable sensing is still in its infancy, we foresee that its utilization will grow in the coming years. For portable sensing to become a prevalent and legitimate methodological approach, it is essential to have conceptually strong study designs that are grounded in suitable ethical procedures and comply with data protection regulations.
AB - Portable sensing, in which lightweight mobile sensors are used to measure stimuli, events, and human behavior, is a new and disruptive data collection paradigm. It has several methodological advantages compared to traditional methods and is suitable for investigating the dynamism of increasingly mobile and urban societies. In this article, we discuss the motivations behind the use of portable sensing and reflect upon the advances, limitations, and future of the field. Although portable sensing is still in its infancy, we foresee that its utilization will grow in the coming years. For portable sensing to become a prevalent and legitimate methodological approach, it is essential to have conceptually strong study designs that are grounded in suitable ethical procedures and comply with data protection regulations.
KW - Ecological momentary assessment
KW - Exposures
KW - Mobility turn
KW - Portable sensors
KW - Smartphone
KW - Wearables
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U2 - 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2021.101650
DO - 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2021.101650
M3 - Article
SN - 0198-9715
VL - 88
SP - 1
EP - 6
JO - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
JF - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
M1 - 101650
ER -