Citizen Sensing: An Action-Orientated Framework for Citizen Science

Coulson, Saskia; Woods, Mel; Eu, Making Sense

doi:10.3389/fcomm.2021.629700

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“…We interpret portable as “portable by patients or consumers”; therefore, portable devices operated by health care professionals (eg, digital stethoscopes) were excluded. We note that the definition of DBMs may overlap with sensor applications in the general population, such as citizen sensing [ 24 ]. In this search, we only considered systematic reviews that use digital devices deployed by clinicians or patients to collect clinical data in the context of treatment.…”

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Digital Biomarker–Based Interventions: Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews

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Background The introduction of new medical technologies such as sensors has accelerated the process of collecting patient data for relevant clinical decisions, which has led to the introduction of a new technology known as digital biomarkers. Objective This study aims to assess the methodological quality and quality of evidence from meta-analyses of digital biomarker–based interventions. Methods This study follows the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guideline for reporting systematic reviews, including original English publications of systematic reviews reporting meta-analyses of clinical outcomes (efficacy and safety endpoints) of digital biomarker–based interventions compared with alternative interventions without digital biomarkers. Imaging or other technologies that do not measure objective physiological or behavioral data were excluded from this study. A literature search of PubMed and the Cochrane Library was conducted, limited to 2019-2020. The quality of the methodology and evidence synthesis of the meta-analyses were assessed using AMSTAR-2 (A Measurement Tool to Assess Systematic Reviews 2) and GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluations), respectively. This study was funded by the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund of Hungary. Results A total of 25 studies with 91 reported outcomes were included in the final analysis; 1 (4%), 1 (4%), and 23 (92%) studies had high, low, and critically low methodologic quality, respectively. As many as 6 clinical outcomes (7%) had high-quality evidence and 80 outcomes (88%) had moderate-quality evidence; 5 outcomes (5%) were rated with a low level of certainty, mainly due to risk of bias (85/91, 93%), inconsistency (27/91, 30%), and imprecision (27/91, 30%). There is high-quality evidence of improvements in mortality, transplant risk, cardiac arrhythmia detection, and stroke incidence with cardiac devices, albeit with low reporting quality. High-quality reviews of pedometers reported moderate-quality evidence, including effects on physical activity and BMI. No reports with high-quality evidence and high methodological quality were found. Conclusions Researchers in this field should consider the AMSTAR-2 criteria and GRADE to produce high-quality studies in the future. In addition, patients, clinicians, and policymakers are advised to consider the results of this study before making clinical decisions regarding digital biomarkers to be informed of the degree of certainty of the various interventions investigated in this study. The results of this study should be considered with its limitations, such as the narrow time frame. International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) RR2-10.2196/28204

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Digital Biomarker–Based Interventions: Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews

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“…Citizen sensing-where people act as sensors of urban problems-is based on citizen science (Coulson et al, 2021). It is possible to explore citizen sensing of urban problems in two broad ways: (a) exploring sensing of individual citizens through an open list questionnaire, a complaint hotline, a mobile app, and so forth, which allows to include many citizens (Peng et al, 2022); and (b) citizen sensing workshop that allows exchange of views between participating citizens but includes a smaller number of citizens (MacPhail and Colla, 2020).…”

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Strategic urban design for sustainable development: A framework for studio and practice

Bafarasat

2023

Sustainable Development

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Urban design seeks to apply the goals of sustainable development in the physical design of cities. It involves complex efforts to explore and address a whole range of urban issues in accordance with the goals of sustainable development. However, it faces challenges to consider the feelings of local communities about unsustainabilities in their environment and to impact the actual urban development. Deploying strategy, which is the science of making the most effective use of a situation to achieve goals, to urban design helps overcome these challenges.This study recommends an interdiscipline of strategic urban design. It proposes a framework of strategic urban design for participative, timely and implementable physical design for sustainable urban development. A cyclic framework of strategic urban design is proposed that comprises four steps: (i) set a goal for urban sustainability, (ii) explore unsustainabilities from citizens' perspective, (iii) explore unsustainabilities that are source of other unsustainabilities, and (iv) design multi-projects to tackle source unsustainabilities. These steps are explained with methods and templates for application in urban design studio and practice.

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“…Involving members directly working with the targeted citizen science group at this stage was important to reflect on the appropriateness of employed methods. Coulson and Woods also emphasize the importance of co-created booklets to assist participants in monitoring environmental pollution in their surroundings [17]. For the Plastic Pirates a full co-creation approach involving school-children was not used because of time constraints and experiences of successful river and beach litter studies of the citizen science programs Científicos de la Basura (Litter Scientists, http://www.cientificosdelabasura.cl/en/) and Following the Pathways of Platic Litter [16,[18][19].…”

Section: Dittmann Et Almentioning

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How to get citizen science data accepted by the scientific community? Insights from the Plastic Pirates project

Dittmann¹,

Kiessling²,

Kruse³

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Proceedings of Engaging Citizen Science Conference 2022 — PoS(CitSci2022)

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How to get citizen science data accepted by the scientific community? Insights from the Plastic Pirates projectData resulting from citizen science investigations are often questioned as most participants do not (yet) have a thorough scientific education. This is especially true for projects taking place in schools, and conducting citizen science in this context is further complicated by different motivations of participants and a busy school curriculum. Herein we present strategies to ensure quality of data generated by the citizen science project Plastic Pirates in which schoolchildren investigated litter pollution at and in rivers. We show how formulating concise research questions, offering accompanying educational material, employing data quality mechanisms in the field (photographs, standardized sampling methods and selfevaluation) as well as transparently detailing which datasets were excluded from analysis was vital to accomplish the acceptance of resulting citizen science data by the scientific community.

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Citizen Sensing: An Action-Orientated Framework for Citizen Science

Cited by 22 publications

References 32 publications

Digital Biomarker–Based Interventions: Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews

Digital Biomarker–Based Interventions: Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews

Strategic urban design for sustainable development: A framework for studio and practice

How to get citizen science data accepted by the scientific community? Insights from the Plastic Pirates project

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