Yep! There's a lot of research going on in that area. For example, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2702416 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2702416 Some rec

Yep! There's a lot of research going on in that area. For example, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2702416 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2702416 Some recent work on fusing machine learning with Mechanical Turk workers to create "sensors".