TY - GEN
T1 - Drogon, the thermal-sensing drone
T2 - 2019 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2019
AU - Kim, Heesun
AU - Hoefer, Kyle
AU - Vega, Alejandra Rodriguez
AU - Kuznetsov, Stacey
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Arizona State University Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts Research Council grant.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright is held by the author/owner(s).
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/6/18
Y1 - 2019/6/18
N2 - New developments in low-cost and widely accessible drones have the potential to radically transform the existing mechanisms for citizen science data collection, scientific analysis of the gathered information, and the broader impacts of drone-based projects on science activism. In this paper, we present Drogon, a thermal-sensing drone, which was used in an initial data gathering and co-design workshop with a group of conservation researchers, policy makers, and citizen scientist volunteers. Our findings reveal three concrete directions for future thermal drone-based citizen science projects. In addition, we reflect on higher-level design opportunities and challenges for working with drones in a citizen science context, including systems for expertise sharing amongst citizen scientists and platforms for collecting, analyzing and sharing drone-based data.
AB - New developments in low-cost and widely accessible drones have the potential to radically transform the existing mechanisms for citizen science data collection, scientific analysis of the gathered information, and the broader impacts of drone-based projects on science activism. In this paper, we present Drogon, a thermal-sensing drone, which was used in an initial data gathering and co-design workshop with a group of conservation researchers, policy makers, and citizen scientist volunteers. Our findings reveal three concrete directions for future thermal drone-based citizen science projects. In addition, we reflect on higher-level design opportunities and challenges for working with drones in a citizen science context, including systems for expertise sharing amongst citizen scientists and platforms for collecting, analyzing and sharing drone-based data.
KW - Citizen science
KW - Co-design
KW - Drone
KW - Thermal sensing
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U2 - 10.1145/3301019.3323910
DO - 10.1145/3301019.3323910
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85069493961
T3 - DIS 2019 Companion - Companion Publication of the 2019 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
SP - 213
EP - 217
BT - DIS 2019 Companion - Companion Publication of the 2019 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 23 June 2019 through 28 June 2019
ER -