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Field testing a rare species bioacoustic smartphone application: challenges and future considerations

Field testing a rare species bioacoustic smartphone application: challenges and future considerations
Field testing a rare species bioacoustic smartphone application: challenges and future considerations
The New Forest cicada is a declining species native to the UK, and the last unconfirmed sighting was in 2000. One of the difficulties in identifying the cicada is that it sings at a high frequency typically inaudible to adults. In this paper we describe a field test of a novel citizen science smartphone application designed to detect and classify the cicada’s call. We discuss some of the obstacles to studying this novel technology, and describe the results from a user trial with a simulated cicada. Our observations are then used to inform a series of design considerations for those developing a similar class of application, and improvements for the application itself.
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Moran, Stuart
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Pantidi, Nadia, Moran, Stuart, Bachour, Khaled, Rodden, Tom, Zilli, Davide, Merrett, Geoff V. and Rogers, Alex (2014) Field testing a rare species bioacoustic smartphone application: challenges and future considerations. 3rd IEEE International Workshop on the Social Implication of Pervasive Computing for Sustainable Living (SIPC '14), Budapest, Hungary. 24 - 28 Mar 2014. 6 pp .

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Abstract

The New Forest cicada is a declining species native to the UK, and the last unconfirmed sighting was in 2000. One of the difficulties in identifying the cicada is that it sings at a high frequency typically inaudible to adults. In this paper we describe a field test of a novel citizen science smartphone application designed to detect and classify the cicada’s call. We discuss some of the obstacles to studying this novel technology, and describe the results from a user trial with a simulated cicada. Our observations are then used to inform a series of design considerations for those developing a similar class of application, and improvements for the application itself.

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e-pub ahead of print date: January 2014
Venue - Dates: 3rd IEEE International Workshop on the Social Implication of Pervasive Computing for Sustainable Living (SIPC '14), Budapest, Hungary, 2014-03-24 - 2014-03-28
Organisations: Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 362628
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/362628
PURE UUID: eeec67f1-496e-4bde-959b-2515b7d3cc6f
ORCID for Geoff V. Merrett: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4980-3894

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Date deposited: 28 Feb 2014 11:51
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:23

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Author: Nadia Pantidi
Author: Stuart Moran
Author: Khaled Bachour
Author: Tom Rodden
Author: Davide Zilli
Author: Geoff V. Merrett ORCID iD
Author: Alex Rogers

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