Das Projekt „Participatory Urbanism“ gehört in die Projekt Reihe „Urban Atmospheres“ mehrere Gruppen von Forschern von Intel Research und der UC Berkeley.
Die Aufgabe des Projektes ist:
Urban Atmospheres’ Participatory Urbanism presents an important new shift in mobile device usage – from communication tool to “networked mobile personal measurement instrument”. We explore how these new “instruments” enable entirely new participatory urban lifestyles and create novel mobile device usage models.
In the spirit of Urban Computing, Participatory Urbanism is the open authoring, sharing, and remixing of new or existing urban technologies marked by, requiring, or involving participation, especially affording the opportunity for individual citizen participation, sharing, and voice. Participatory Urbanism builds upon a large body of related projects where citizens act as agents of change.
Participatory Urbanism promotes new styles and methods for individual citizens to become proactive in their involvement with their city, neighborhood, and urban self reflexivity.
Our mobile devices are more than just personal communication tools . They are globally networked, speak the lingua franca of the city (SMS, Bluetooth, MMS), and are becoming the dominant urban processor. We need to shatter our understanding of them as phones and celebrate them in their new role as measurement instruments. Our desire is to provide our mobile devices with new “super-senses” and abilities by enabling a wide range of physical sensors to be easily attached and used by anyone, especially non-experts.
In ihrem Experiment in Accra, Ghana, brachten sie Luftqualitätmessgeräte an Taxis an. Aber eine Frage bleibt, was ist, wenn unsere Handys mit Sesoren für Luftqualität, Wassserqualität, UV-Internsität, etc. ausgestattet werden?
We [the researchers] claim that it will shatter our understanding of these devices as simply communication tools (a.k.a. phones) and celebrates them in their new role as measurement instruments. We envision a wide range of novel physical sensors attached to mobile devices, empowering everyday non-experts with new “super-senses” and abilities.
Integrating simple air quality sensors into networked mobile phones promotes everyday citizens to uncover, visualize, and collectively share real-time air quality measurements from their own everyday urban lifestyles.
This system shows individuals a pattern of their own behavior that may not be easy to discern without such a tool and application. The air quality that an individual encounters varies by time of day, route and mode of travel, and time of year. Individuals are also able to compare the levels of air pollution they are exposed to daily with that of their friends, family, or other citizens in not only their own metropolis but across global cities. We hope to promote continued use by bringing these environmental phenomena and patterns to the individual’s attention.
Using the N-SMARTS hardware from UC Berkeley we are designing hardware and software mobile systems to enable Participatory Urbanism.
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