Enabling Citizen Science in Communal Smart Environments with IoT Technology

Dear Colleagues,

Human intelligence, IoT, and AI each have their own strengths and weaknesses. Machines are effective and efficient in the discovery of implicit knowledge or hidden patterns from large-scale data, whereas humans are good at conducting cognitive analysis such as reasoning, inference, and making instinctive judgments by taking into consideration dynamic and multiple factors. When people are organized into groups to conduct research activities, this is called Citizen Science, which pursues collective intelligence. Humans and machines do not have to be competitive or mutually exclusive, and one does not have to dominate/replace the other. One way to address the two above-mentioned issues is to marry the strengths and mitigate the weaknesses of human intelligence and AI, making them work in collaboration and cooperation. In this Special Issue, we will gather evidence from existing research regarding the intersection of Citizen Science, artificial intelligence, and IoT to create communal smart environments where synergy and symbiosis among the agents that are enabled. We are especially interested in articles regarding experiences where people and machines collaborate on data collection, modelling, analysis and ubiquitous intelligence for a wide range of applications of crowd-sourced, Internet-based information.

Dr. Diego Casado-Mansilla
Dr. Diego López-de-Ipiña
Dr. Oihane Gómez-Carmona
Guest Editors

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