A vehicle for research: using street sweepers to explore the landscape of environmental community action Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4361246, abstract = {Researchers are developing mobile sensing platforms to facilitate public awareness of environmental conditions. However, turning such awareness into practical community action and political change requires more than just collecting and presenting data. To inform research on mobile environmental sensing, we conducted design fieldwork with government, private, and public interest stakeholders. In parallel, we built an environmental air quality sensing system and deployed it on street sweeping vehicles in a major U.S. city; this served as a research vehicle"by grounding our interviews and affording us status as environmental action researchers. In this paper, we present a qualitative analysis of the landscape of environmental action, focusing on insights that will help researchers frame meaningful technological interventions.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Aoki, Paul M. and Honicky, R. J. and Mainwaring, Alan and Myers, Chris and Paulos, Eric and Subramanian, Sushmita and Woodruff, Allison}, booktitle = {CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {4361246}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1518701.1518762}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518762}, doi = {10.1145/1518701.1518762}, isbn = {978-1-60558-246-7}, keywords = {activism, design, environment, hci, sustainability}, location = {Boston, MA, USA}, pages = {375--384}, posted-at = {2009-04-30 21:36:42}, priority = {4}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {A vehicle for research: using street sweepers to explore the landscape of environmental community action}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518762}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4361246 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4361246 N2 - Researchers are developing mobile sensing platforms to facilitate public awareness of environmental conditions. However, turning such awareness into practical community action and political change requires more than just collecting and presenting data. To inform research on mobile environmental sensing, we conducted design fieldwork with government, private, and public interest stakeholders. In parallel, we built an environmental air quality sensing system and deployed it on street sweeping vehicles in a major U.S. city; this served as a research vehicle"by grounding our interviews and affording us status as environmental action researchers. In this paper, we present a qualitative analysis of the landscape of environmental action, focusing on insights that will help researchers frame meaningful technological interventions. CY - Boston, MA, USA SN - 978-1-60558-246-7 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 384 TI - A vehicle for research: using street sweepers to explore the landscape of environmental community action PB - ACM T2 - CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems SP - 375 KW - activism KW - design KW - environment KW - hci KW - sustainability AU - Aoki, Paul AU - Honicky, RJ AU - Mainwaring, Alan AU - Myers, Chris AU - Paulos, Eric AU - Subramanian, Sushmita AU - Woodruff, Allison PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518762 ER -