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Allergy Reporter
Jeff BoydSam Olsen
Motivation
Related Work
• Micro-Blog: Sharing and Querying Content Through Mobile Phones and Social Participationo Search a given area
• Twitter: Small messages, What are you doing now?o What’s it like now?
Related Work
• Pollen.como Websiteo Widgets
Related Work
• Official pollen.com iPhone/iPod Touch App
• Does NOT do automatic location estimation
• NO social networking aspirations
Original Goal
• Incorporate information from Pollen.com and AirNow.gov into a mobile application to provide air quality information
• Include a microblog feature in the application, thereby adding a “human sensor” to the reporting, and encouraging social interaction
Ideal Architecture
Roadblocks
• AirNow.gov has a private API for accessing Air Quality Index datao We didn’t receive a response when requesting
access• There are publicly accessible Google Earth .kml
fileso The files are large, making them impractical to
parse on a mobile computero The location data is too course, only containing
select cities
Roadblocks cont.
• Pollen.com provides no API, but...
Workaround
• Pollen.com does provide an interface for looking up pollen count information by zip code
• No authenticity token means we have a solution: Page Scraping!!
• Drawbackso Slowo Unstable, can change at any moment
Realized Architecture
User Interface
Microblog Features
• Location based on zip, blogs associated with cities
• Truncate to 70 characters (half a tweet)
• Communicates with server over HTTP
• Display most recent first
User Interface
User Interface
Testing Questions
• Efficacy of a mobile pollen reportero How does a mobile pollen reporter compare
to a strictly web-based tool? Other tools?o Can a mobile application be solely relied
upon for all allergy/respiratory information?o Who does this application work best for?
How do we improve it for non-target demographics?
Testing Questions cont.• Social impact of microblog feature
o Using humans as sensorsUsefulness compared to mechanical sensors?Personal motivation to blog?
o Are there unintended uses of the feature?
Future Work• Integrate with AirNow.gov to get AQI information
• Gain access to Pollen.com API to improve efficiency• Gather feedback on usefulness of microblogging.
Research what works well and how to improve