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Title: The “Three-Legged Stool": Designing for Equitable City, Community, and Research Partnerships in Urban Environmental Sensing
Citation Type: Miscellaneous
Publication Year: 2023
ISBN: 9781450394215
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DOI: 10.1145/3544548.3581289
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Abstract: Urban environmental monitoring campaigns depend on expertise from city agencies, residents, and researchers. Deployment eforts rarely include all three stakeholders, typically leading to initiatives that struggle to produce credible, actionable data. We describe the implementation of a large-scale, long-term air quality sensing network in Chicago Illinois; detail stakeholder interviews and meetings; and present three interfaces-a website accessible via in-situ QR codes, APIs, and a mobile, mixed-media experience. We show how a collaborative approach created a more equitable sensor distribution compared to crowdsourced or regulatory designs. We highlight shared goals of education, engagement, and empower-ment despite the diversity of tool and analytics needs across stake-holder groups. Refecting on our work, we develop a "three-legged stool" framework representing the criticality of balanced participation from three key stakeholder groups-city, community, and research-in deploying novel urban technologies. This approach can help HCI researchers facilitate more democratic technology deployments in urban spaces.
Url: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581289
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Authors: Daepp, Madeleine I. G.; Cabral, Alex; Werner, Tiffany M; Mansour, Raed; Catlett, Charlie; Roseway, Asta; Needham, Chuck; Udeagbala, Nneka; Counts, Scott
Publisher: ACM
Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS
Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization
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