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Sensing and making sense of tourism flows and urban data to foster sustainability awareness: a real-world experience
Tourism is one of the world’s largest industries fundamentally arising from mobility as a form of capital. In destination islands that have a delicate ecosystem to maintain, this source of income can become problematic in terms of sustainability. A difficulty in making people aware of this issue is...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7989699/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33782645 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40537-021-00442-w |
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author | Prandi, Catia Nisi, Valentina Ribeiro, Miguel Nunes, Nuno |
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description | Tourism is one of the world’s largest industries fundamentally arising from mobility as a form of capital. In destination islands that have a delicate ecosystem to maintain, this source of income can become problematic in terms of sustainability. A difficulty in making people aware of this issue is also represented by the fact that such sustainability-related issues (and their causes) are often not “visible” to citizens. To foster awareness about the relationship between sustainability and tourism in well-known destinations, we design a platform that engages users at two levels of participation: i. at the IoT and sensors level, in order to let them becoming providers of big data, deploying and enlarging the pervasive infrastructure; ii. at the (big) data visualization level, with the aim of engaging them in making sense of large volumes of data related to sustainability. This paper presents the design and implementation of a real-world experience where a low-cost collaborative platform made it possible to sense and visualize tourist flows and urban data into a rich interactive map-based visualization, open to the local communities. We deployed our case study in the Madeira archipelago, engaging locals and visitors of the island in two exploratory studies focused on measuring the impact of providing users with meaningful representations of tourism flows and related unperceivable aspects that affect the environmental sustainability. Analysing the findings of the two studies, we discuss the potentiality of using such a system to make sense of big data, fostering awareness about sustainability issues, and we point to future open challenges about citizens’ participation in sensing and making sense of big data. |
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spelling | pubmed-79896992021-03-25 Sensing and making sense of tourism flows and urban data to foster sustainability awareness: a real-world experience Prandi, Catia Nisi, Valentina Ribeiro, Miguel Nunes, Nuno J Big Data Research Tourism is one of the world’s largest industries fundamentally arising from mobility as a form of capital. In destination islands that have a delicate ecosystem to maintain, this source of income can become problematic in terms of sustainability. A difficulty in making people aware of this issue is also represented by the fact that such sustainability-related issues (and their causes) are often not “visible” to citizens. To foster awareness about the relationship between sustainability and tourism in well-known destinations, we design a platform that engages users at two levels of participation: i. at the IoT and sensors level, in order to let them becoming providers of big data, deploying and enlarging the pervasive infrastructure; ii. at the (big) data visualization level, with the aim of engaging them in making sense of large volumes of data related to sustainability. This paper presents the design and implementation of a real-world experience where a low-cost collaborative platform made it possible to sense and visualize tourist flows and urban data into a rich interactive map-based visualization, open to the local communities. We deployed our case study in the Madeira archipelago, engaging locals and visitors of the island in two exploratory studies focused on measuring the impact of providing users with meaningful representations of tourism flows and related unperceivable aspects that affect the environmental sustainability. Analysing the findings of the two studies, we discuss the potentiality of using such a system to make sense of big data, fostering awareness about sustainability issues, and we point to future open challenges about citizens’ participation in sensing and making sense of big data. Springer International Publishing 2021-03-24 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7989699/ /pubmed/33782645 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40537-021-00442-w Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Research Prandi, Catia Nisi, Valentina Ribeiro, Miguel Nunes, Nuno Sensing and making sense of tourism flows and urban data to foster sustainability awareness: a real-world experience |
title | Sensing and making sense of tourism flows and urban data to foster sustainability awareness: a real-world experience |
title_full | Sensing and making sense of tourism flows and urban data to foster sustainability awareness: a real-world experience |
title_fullStr | Sensing and making sense of tourism flows and urban data to foster sustainability awareness: a real-world experience |
title_full_unstemmed | Sensing and making sense of tourism flows and urban data to foster sustainability awareness: a real-world experience |
title_short | Sensing and making sense of tourism flows and urban data to foster sustainability awareness: a real-world experience |
title_sort | sensing and making sense of tourism flows and urban data to foster sustainability awareness: a real-world experience |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7989699/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33782645 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40537-021-00442-w |
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