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| The recent convergence between low-cost technology, artform and political discourse presents a rich new design space for enabling public participation and expression. This paper explores participatory sensing as a resource for activating, authoring and provoking a milieu of urban landscapes. We envision place-based sensing that invites non-experts to move and leave modular sensors in public spaces, allowing for a range of interactions from personal sensing to more public experiences. Our study of sensor appropriation, data sharing, and public authorship across four urban communities of bicyclists, students, parents, and homeless people reveals design opportunities for merging grassroots data collection with public expression 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 throughout their daily routines over the course of one week. Our findings offer insights into public engagement, environmental sensing, and data sharing within and across four different communities, revealing design implications for participatory sensing systems as a public authoring tool for urban landscapes. | The recent convergence between low-cost technology, artform and political discourse presents a rich new design space for enabling public participation and expression. This paper explores participatory sensing as a resource for activating, authoring and provoking a milieu of urban landscapes. We envision place-based sensing that invites non-experts to move and leave modular sensors in public spaces, allowing for a range of interactions from personal sensing to more public experiences. Our study of sensor appropriation, data sharing, and public authorship across four urban communities of bicyclists, students, parents, and homeless people reveals design opportunities for merging grassroots data collection with public expression 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 throughout their daily routines over the course of one week. Our findings offer insights into public engagement, environmental sensing, and data sharing within and across four different communities, revealing design implications for participatory sensing systems as a public authoring tool for urban landscapes. | ||
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| + | **Pathogens sensor on toilet placed by parent (top right), all 6 sensors attached to bike while passing a bridge (top left), dust sensor on construction site fence placed by homeless (bottom right), and dust and noise sensors placed in computer lab by student (bottom left).**<html> | ||
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| + | <h3> Exploring Sensor Usage Across Four Urban Communities of Stakeholders</h3></p> | ||
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| We define our stakeholders as any people who occupy or pass through public urban spaces, including policemen, cab drivers, pedestrians, construction workers, businessmen, etc. To gain insight into how stakeholders spanning diverse age groups, interests, urban spaces, social and economic backgrounds approach sensing and public authorship, we scoped our study around four communities, making the following assumptions about each: | We define our stakeholders as any people who occupy or pass through public urban spaces, including policemen, cab drivers, pedestrians, construction workers, businessmen, etc. To gain insight into how stakeholders spanning diverse age groups, interests, urban spaces, social and economic backgrounds approach sensing and public authorship, we scoped our study around four communities, making the following assumptions about each: | ||
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