Advances in portable sensing for urban environments: Understanding cities from a mobility perspective

A Birenboim; Marco Helbich; Mei-Po Kwan

doi:10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2021.101650

Advances in portable sensing for urban environments: Understanding cities from a mobility perspective

A Birenboim
, Marco Helbich
, Mei-Po Kwan

Urban Accessibility and Social Inclusion

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Article number	101650
Pages (from-to)	1-6
Number of pages	6
Journal	Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
Volume	88
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2021.101650
Publication status	Published - Jul 2021

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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 ).

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Keywords

Ecological momentary assessment
Exposures
Mobility turn
Portable sensors
Smartphone
Wearables

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