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High school students as potential actors in monitoring and improving indoor environmental quality: scientific quality of work performed by students involved in CITI-SENSE pilot studies

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to reflect on the ability of high school students to collect and interpret data on their indoor environment when equipped with low costs sensor devices. The paper draws upon practical examples from case studies in CITI-SENSE project carried out in three European cities and highlights areas for consideration when engaging high school students in data gathering and interpretation. As a “citizen science” project CITI-SENSE is testing and developing low-costs air quality sensor units for participatory sensing. Collaboration between local research institutes and high schools resulted in various student research assignments. The quality of the data produced by high school students was not only affected by their capabilities to -contribute to scientific research, but also by the limitations of the provided tools. However, we concluded, that as long as students are supervised, they are capable of contributing to scientifically sound research.

Category

Conference lecture

Language

English

Author(s)

  • Johanna Robinson
  • Sverre Bjørn Holøs
  • Britt Ann Kåstad Høiskar
  • Milena Jovašević-Stojanović
  • Dušan Topalović
  • David Kocman
  • Hans Keune

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Community / Architectural Engineering
  • Josef Stefan International Postgraduate School
  • Josef Stefan Institute
  • VINCA Institute of Nuclear Sciences
  • NILU

Presented at

Indoor Air

Place

Ghent

Date

03.08.2016 - 03.08.2016

Organizer

ISIAQ

Year

2016

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