IS 596 - Social Sensing and Human-Cyber-Physical Systems - Fall 2021
Instructor
Prof. Dong Wang
Email: dwang24 at illinois dot edu
Office Hours: By Appointment (Office Hour Zoom)
TA: Lanyu Shang
Email: lshang3 at illinois dot edu
Office Hours: Monday 10am - Noon or By Appointment (Office Hour Zoom)
Lecture Time and Zoom Link
Monday 3:00- 4:55 pm
Lecture Zoom Link
Course Overview
Online social media (e.g., Twitter, Facebook), smartphones, and ubiquitous internet connectivity have greatly facilitated data sharing at scale, allowing for a firehose of human and sensor observations to pour in about the physical world in real-time. This opens up unprecedented challenges and opportunities in the field of social sensing and human-centric cyber-physical systems (H-CPS) where an important goal is to efficiently organize the real-time data feeds and accurately reconstruct the "states of the world", both physical and social. This course offers students the opportunity to learn the theoretical foundations, state-of-the-art techniques, and hands-on experience in this exciting area. The topic of this class is timely due to the increasing interest in online social networks, big data, and human-in-the-loop systems, as well as the proliferation of computing artifacts that interact with or monitor the physical world.
The class contains four main components: (i) the introduction to social sensing and cyber-physical systems; (ii) key technical challenges (e.g., big data analytics, system reliability, user mobility, energy, privacy, etc.); (iii) state-of-the-art techniques and systems (e.g., MapReduce/Hadoop, fact-finding, etc); (iv) emerging applications (smartphone-based crowdsensing, online social media sensing, participatory/opportunistic sensing, intelligent transportation, smart buildings, body area networks etc). The students will have the opportunities to work with real world social sensing and cyber-physical system problems.
Getting Help
Canvas Page - General announcement and Q&A after class
Office Hours - Please refer to the above schedule.
Email - Contact Prof. Wang for questions about grades, course policies, etc.
Grades are available on Canvas.
Course Documents
Lecture Zoom Link
Syllabus
Course Project (Group Signup Form)
Assignment 1: Twitter Data Crawler
Assignment 2: Tweet Sentiment Analysis
Assignment 3: Tweets Clustering
Project Meeting Links
Project Kick-off Meetings
Project Mid-term Meetings
Project Pre-Final Meetings
Grading
10% of the grade will be assigned on individuals' class participation and proactive discussion of lecture topics and project presentations. (Individual based)
10% of the grade will be assigned on an in-class paper presentation on the selected topic by each group. (Group based)
30% of the grade will be assigned on individuals' homework assignments. (Individual based)
50% of the grade will be determined by a group course project. This grade includes project proposal, mid-term report, mid-term project presentation, a final project presentation, a final project paper, and project updates and demonstrations (to the instructor). The project will implement some innovative social sensing model, service, system, or computing environment. Students will be allowed to work in groups of 1 or 2 on the project. The project will proceed through the landmarks stated below. (Group based)
5%: Project discussion and updates
5%: Project proposal
5%: Mid-term project presentation
10%: Mid-term project report
10%: Final project presentation
15%: Final project paper
Note: For individual based work, each student will receive the credit based on her/his own work. For the group based work, every student in the group will receive the same credit based on the group's work.
The iSchool has the responsibility for maintaining academic integrity so as to protect the quality of education and research in our school and to protect those who depend on our integrity. Consequences of academic integrity infractions may be serious, ranging from a written warning to a failing grade for the course or dismissal from the University.
See the student code for academic integrity requirements: http://studentcode.illinois.edu/article1/part4/1-401/
The project will be chosen by each group within the first couple of weeks of class. Here are some ideas to help you get started. Groups are encouraged to come up with their own ideas. If you have some really cool idea that does not satisfy such restriction, please schedule a meeting to discuss it with the instructor. Project title, abstract, and member list are due on Noon, Sep. 3.
Each group will schedule a regular meeting (during project meeting slots and office hours) to meet with the instructor and discuss the progress and problems encountered on their projects.
Each group will prepare and submit a two page project proposal. The proposal should include an overview of the project (preferably with a diagram), a brief review of state-of-the-arts in related fields, the proposed method/solution, a credible set of initial project results if available, a list of further proposed milestones, and a plan of action for the rest of the semester. The proposal is due on Noon, Oct. 1.
Each group is responsible for a Mid-term Project Presentation in class starting from Oct. 18. The presentation will allow the instructor and classmates to comment on the initial results and current state of the project and also give constructive feedback to the group members.
Each group will prepare and submit a four page mid-term project report. The mid-term report should include a reasonable amount of preliminary results, a description of finished milestones, a discussion of encountered problems and relevant solutions, and any modifications to the plan (if there are) to finish the remaining tasks. The mid-term report is due on Noon, Oct. 22.
Final project presentations will be conducted by each group in the week of Dec. 6.
Each group will prepare and submit a final project paper. The final project paper is a comprehensive summary of the whole project and should follow a technical paper writing style. The expected number of pages for the final paper is 8-10 pages (including references). Final project paper is due on Noon, Dec. 13.
The proposal, mid-term report and final project paper should all follow a standard technical paper format . Here is the template: IEEE Latex or Word Template .
A successful project could result in a conference or journal quality paper.
Note : For more information about the project (e.g., possible ideas and milestones), please visit Course Project Page
You are encouraged to seek out and exploit external manuals, books, websites, and other documentation that can help you to complete your project, provided that you indicate what sources you have used. However, all software development, experimental work, and writing of the proposal, report and paper must be done solely by you and your project partner(s).
Project Documents Submission Instruction: To submit the project related documents (i.e., abstract, proposal, midterm/final presentation slides and reports), please (1) email the document (i.e., pdf for text documents and pptx/pdf for slides) directly to Prof. Wang before the deadline; (2) upload a copy of the submission to Canvas as a backup. One submission per group is sufficient.
Assignments
Assignments are normally due at the beginning of class on the date due . This might change due to the break (e.g., Fall Break). Please double check with the assignment description and the course website for the actual due date. Late assignments will receive no credit. This includes assignments submitted after class has begun.
Programming assignments will be turned in electronically by uploading all required files to Canvas. You are free to turn in assignments multiple times before the deadline expires. It would be a good habit to turn in an incomplete but working assignment on a daily basis. Thus, there is no excuse for failing to turn in an assignment: everyone should turn in something long before the deadline. Exceptions will be made only in grave circumstances.
Assignment 1: Twitter Data Crawler
Assignment 2: Tweet Sentiment Analysis
Assignment 3: Tweets Clustering
In-class Paper Presentation
Each group will do an in-class paper presentation to present a selected technical paper in the second half of the semester.
The in-class paper presentation will provide good opportunities for you to exercise your scientific presentation ability, practice critical thinking, understand how to judge and challenge other's work in a professional way, and learn how to organize and lead an active scientific/technical discussion session.
Detailed instructions are available here
Tentative Schedule
Note: Lecture notes are avaliable on Canvas.
Week
| Lecture
| Materials
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Aug. 23
| Social Sensing and Cyber-Physical Systems Landscape
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Reading:
Introduction to Social Sensing
Cyber-Physical Systems: The Next Computing Revolution
Project Title, Abstract and Member List Due Friday, Sep. 3. (Group Signup Form)
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Aug. 30
| Project Idea Brainstorm and Tutorial for Assignment 1
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Assignment 1 is out, due: Sep. 13
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Sep. 6
| Labor Day
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Sep. 13
| Data Reliability and Information Overload
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Reading:
Truth Discovery in Social Sensing
Quantifying the Quality of Information
Using Humans as Sensors
Please sign up your meeting slot on Doodle by end of September 15.
Assignment 2 is out, due: Sept. 27
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Sep. 20
| Project Kick-off Meetings
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Sep. 27
| Data Reliability and Information Overload Cont.
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Reading:
Exploitation of Physical Constraints
Handling Conflicting Claims
Provenance-Assisted Social Signal Classification
Project Proposal Due Friday, Noon, Oct. 1.
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Oct. 4
| Online Social Media Sensing
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Reading:
Earthquake Shakes Twitter Users
From Tweets to Polls
You Are Where You Tweet
Groundhog Day: Near-Duplicate Detection on Twitter
Please sign up your meeting slot on Doodle by end of October 6.
Assignment 3 is out, due: Nov. 1
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Oct. 11
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Project Mid-term Meetings
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Oct. 18
| Mid-term Project Presentations
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Mid-term Project Presentation
Mid-term Project Presentation
Project Mid-term Report Due Friday, Noon, Oct. 22
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Oct. 25
| Big Data Issues
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Reading:
Big Table Paper
Map-Reduce Paper
Data Cube Paper
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Nov. 1
| Crowdsensing and Mobile Sensing
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Reading:
A Survey of Mobile Sensing
How Long to Wait: Bus Arrival Time Prediction
Automatically Characterizing Places
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Nov. 8
| Automotive Sensing and Intelligent Transportation
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Reading:
GreenGPS: A Participatory Sensing Fuel-Efficient Maps Application
SignalGuru: A Collaborative Traffic Signal Schedule Advisory Service
CarSpeak: A Content-Centric Network for Autonomous Driving
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Nov. 15
| Medical Sensing, Privacy or Open Issues (Students In-class Presentation)
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In-class Paper Presentation
Reading:
Medical Sensing:
Detecting Cocaine Use with Wearable Electrocardiogram Sensors
Sensor Selection for Energy-Efficient Ambulatory Medical Monitoring
Real-time Clinical Monitoring and Deterioration Warning
Context-Aware Assisted-Living and Residential Monitoring
Cyber-Physical Modeling of Implantable Cardiac Medical Devices
BiliCam: Using Mobile Phones to Monitor Newborn Jaundice
Contactless Sleep Apnea Detection on Smartphones
MyHealthAssistant: An Event-driven Middleware for Multiple Medical Applications on a Smartphone-Mediated Body Sensor Network
SADHealth: A Personal Mobile Sensing System for
Seasonal Health Monitoring
Recognizing Academic Performance, Sleep Quality, Stress Level, and Mental Health using Personality Traits, Wearable Sensors and Mobile Phones
Privacy:
ProtectMyPrivacy: Detecting and Mitigating Privacy Leaks on iOS Devices
Cloud-Enabled Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Learning for Mobile Sensing
Understanding Users' Mental Models of Mobile App Privacy through Crowdsourcing
Privacy Manipulation and Acclimation in a Location Sharing Application
Privacy-aware Regression Modeling of Participatory Sensing Data
Privacy.Tag: Privacy Concern Expressed and Respected
Privacy-Preserving Compressive Sensing for Crowdsensing based Trajectory Recovery
A Privacy-Preserving Vehicular Crowdsensing-Based Road Surface Condition Monitoring System Using Fog Computing
Location Privacy-Preserving Task Allocation for Mobile Crowdsensing with Differential Geo-Obfuscation
AnonySense: Privacy-Aware People-Centric Sensing
Is This Thing On?
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Nov. 22
| Fall Break
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Nov. 29
| Project Final Meetings
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Please sign up your meeting slot on Doodle by end of November 18.
Dec. 6
| Final Project Presentation
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Final Project Presentation
Dec. 13
| Final Project Report
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Final Project Report Due Monday, Noon, Dec. 13
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