TY - GEN
T1 - Participatory sensing in public spaces
T2 - 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2010
AU - Kuznetsov, Stacey
AU - Paulos, Eric
PY - 2010/11/15
Y1 - 2010/11/15
N2 - Recent convergence between low-cost technology, artform and political discourse presents a new design space for enabling public participation and expression. We explore non-experts' use of place-based, modular sensors to activate, author and provoke urban landscapes. Our work with communities of bicyclists, students, parents, and homeless people suggests design opportunities for merging grassroots data collection with public expressions and activism. Members of each community were given probes that represent the measurement of exhaust, smog, pathogens, chemicals, noise or dust, and asked to engage with them as fully functional sensors over the course of one week. Our findings offer insights into participation, environmental sensing, and data sharing within and across four different communities, revealing design implications for future sensing systems as instruments of social currency and political change.
AB - Recent convergence between low-cost technology, artform and political discourse presents a new design space for enabling public participation and expression. We explore non-experts' use of place-based, modular sensors to activate, author and provoke urban landscapes. Our work with communities of bicyclists, students, parents, and homeless people suggests design opportunities for merging grassroots data collection with public expressions and activism. Members of each community were given probes that represent the measurement of exhaust, smog, pathogens, chemicals, noise or dust, and asked to engage with them as fully functional sensors over the course of one week. Our findings offer insights into participation, environmental sensing, and data sharing within and across four different communities, revealing design implications for future sensing systems as instruments of social currency and political change.
KW - participatory sensing
KW - public spaces
KW - urban probes
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U2 - 10.1145/1858171.1858175
DO - 10.1145/1858171.1858175
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78149341370
SN - 9781450301039
T3 - DIS 2010 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
SP - 21
EP - 30
BT - DIS 2010 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Y2 - 16 August 2010 through 20 August 2010
ER -