ActivityLog is a general mobile phone application that helps urban climate researchers and social scientists study spatio-temporal dynamics of human interaction with urban environment. Data collected through ActivityLog are timestamped, geo-referenced, and easily paired up with air temperature and relative humidity sensors such as Kestrel Drop (a portable Bluetooth enabled environmental data logger). Specifically, ActivityLog - HeatMappers is designed to support the development of HeatMappers citizen science project, which utilizes to understand the heat vulnerable population in Maricopa County, Arizona.
ActivityLog - HeatMappers has five main functionalities. First, it notifies users from 8am to 8pm at every two hours interval to remind about activity logging. Secondly, it periodically collects users’ locations at a certain pre-defined time interval. Thirdly, it can be paired with a portable Kestrel Drop device to inform users about current temperature, relative humidity and heat stress index. Fourthly, the mobile application contains a link to HeatMappers online survey from Qualtric platform. Lastly, all collected data (location, time, temperature, relative humidity, heat stress index, human activity) are synced with a cloud database that can help researchers monitor data collection progress in a real-time manner and reduce data cleaning efforts.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ziqi.activitylog&hl=en
Zhao, Q., Li, Z., Shah, D., Fischer, H., Solís, P., & Wentz, E. (2021). Understanding the interaction between human activities and physical health under extreme heat environment in Phoenix, Arizona. Health & Place, 102691. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102691
The ASU Knowledge Exchange for Resilience is supported by the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust. Piper Trust supports organizations that enrich health, well-being, and opportunity for the people of Maricopa County, Arizona. The conclusions, views and opinions expressed in this manuscript are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust. Dr. Qunshan Zhao has received UK ESRC’s on-going support for the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) [ES/L011921/1 and ES/S007105/1].
The authors would like to thank the Salvation Army Metro Phoenix, AZCEND, The Nature Conservancy, and American Express for help recruiting citizen science volunteers and organizing the events. We want to thank Mr. Ryan Reynolds, Mr. Sam Golla, and Mr. Maximus Caron for their data cleaning efforts on the paper activity logs, and Dr. Wei Luo’s help on activity log data visualization. We also want to thank all of the citizen scientists for providing us with relevant data and contributing to the intellectual development of this work from their lived experiences. Finally, all the insightful comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this manuscript from anonymous reviewers are greatly appreciated.