Designing interfaces to promote the meaningfulness of urban data through an interactive art installation

Papageorgopoulou, Penny; Arsenopoulou, Natalia; Charitos, Dimitris; Rizopoulos, Charalampos; Theona, Iouliani; Katsarou, Louiza; Psaltis, Anthony; Korosidis, Antonios

doi:10.1145/3489410.3489415

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“…There have been endeavours in the HCI community to engage with environmental data in more open-ended ways. For instance, t-shirts [29] and balloons [30] that light up or change colour in response to air quality, a system to capture videos of factory smoke in addition to particulate matter sensor data [24], a device that slowly visualises CO2 levels by scorching paper discs [26], or VR and AR applications that make pollution particles visible [40,45,48]. While most of these examples still draw on established ways of visualising data by using colours, numbers or simplified graphs, a look at artsbased research yields more speculative approaches.…”

Section: Related Work Visualising Environmental Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Air Quality Lens: Ambiguity as Opportunity to Reactivate Environmental Data

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Malliet

Hendriks

et al. 2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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The use of low-cost sensors to collect environmental data can enable citizens to express environmental concerns and foster community building and activism. However, when made public, citizen data is often detached from the subjective experiences integral to citizen sensing. Our work with youngsters from diverse backgrounds explores how existing environmental datasets can be reactivated to engage new stakeholders and discussions. We present a research through design project with air quality data and draw attention to the role of ambiguity in our design process. We synthesize our reflections by discussing three design aspects that can make sense of ambiguity and encourage critical engagements with environmental data. Our goal is to offer a design-oriented account of how citizen-generated environmental data can be reactivated to express matters of concern.

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Section: Related Work Visualising Environmental Datamentioning

confidence: 99%