Listening to Air Quality

In most large cities of the developing world, urban air pollution has worsened, which has been detrimental to the health of their populations. At the same time, it is difficult for lay people to sense the level of air quality with bare human perception as air pollutants are mostly invisible and odorless. We believe that computing technologies can help increase awareness of urban air quality. To the end, we designed and implemented an application that provides users a sense of the air quality level in a sensory input, audio signal, expecting that our system can help increase awareness of air quality. By using our system regularly, we expect that people can easily interpret and understand the level of air quality in surroundings.