Abstract
As a result of the widespread of smart devices such as smartphones, participatory sensing, which is a method of sensing and sharing information about the surrounding environment using the user’s own device, has been attracting increasing attention. However, the quality of the data relies on the attitudes of the users because they do not always give accurate and careful responses to participatory sensing tasks. In this study, we considered that the causes of the occurrence of careless responses in participatory sensing are not only the user’s attitude toward the task, but also the cognitive stress conditions surrounding the user (e.g., time limits, ambient noise, walking). In this paper, we investigated whether the ratio of correct answers and the response status of a participatory sensing task differs under stressful and normal conditions. The results showed that the cognitive stresses of noise and walking significantly reduced the ratio of correct answers, whereas the cognitive stresses of walking and time limits increased and decreased the answering time, respectively. After the experiment, we conducted a subjective evaluation questionnaire regarding the effects of stress environment conditions on the participatory sensing task. The results showed that a combination of multiple stressful environmental conditions often hindered or affected task responses.
This study was supported R. Yoshikawa and Y. Matsuda are Co-first authors in part by JST PRESTO under Grant No. JPMJPR2039.
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Yoshikawa, R., Matsuda, Y., Oyama, K., Suwa, H., Yasumoto, K. (2022). Analysis of The Effects of Cognitive Stress on the Reliability of Participatory Sensing. In: Hara, T., Yamaguchi, H. (eds) Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services. MobiQuitous 2021. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 419. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94822-1_41
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