Community Reminder: Participatory contextual reminder environments for local communities

Abstract

Many projects have looked at how communities can co-design shared online repositories, such as Wikimapia and Wikipedia. However, little work has examined how local communities can give advice and support to their members by creating context-aware reminders that may include advice, tips and small requests. We developed the Community Reminder environment, a smartphone-based platform that supports community members to design and use context-aware reminders. We have conducted a one-month field study of Community Reminder to crowdsource and deliver safety-relevant information in a local community. The results show the benefits of involving community members in reminder design and connecting different perspectives. We also show that the proposed approach can broaden participation in local communities.

Smart City Initiatives For Sustainable Environmental Planning

“…These studies have shown that community engagement is possible and that a suitable reward system can encourage sufficient community participation. Recent research conducted by Sasao et al (2017) has shown that reminders can broaden participation in local communities. This particular research also provided evidence that involving the community offers many benefits that contribute to the success of a specific project as a whole.…”

Service-Oriented Context-Aware Messaging System

“…Spatial information such as location information is considered an essential part in context-aware messaging services. The guidance and notification services, such as Community Reminder [9], depend on location in order to execute tasks. Location is commonly used in the area of social network services to facilitate greater interaction between agents such as groups of nearby friends in the services.…”

“…The service ontology enhances and supports knowing sharing capabilities as well as messaging functionalities for guidance and notification purposes such as work done in Community Reminder. Community Reminder [9] provides the user with reminders and situations that can be applied in many ways. Mona-ServOnt contains similar context information that can be applied to offer guidance and notification services.…”

Learning Support Systems Based on Cohesive Learning Analytics

“…Some learning analytics projects have explored proactive capabilities of data-driven environments based on prediction (Okubo et al, 2017b) and mobile alerts (Straumsheim, 2013), although they do not fully respond to the dynamic contexts of learners. Context-responsive notifications have been used to provide personalized feedback regarding energy consumption (Igarashi et al, 2016) and safety (Sasao et al, 2017). However, they do not explicitly support learning processes.…”

“…This can help go beyond the limits of adaptive learning systems that rely on data about what happened in the past. As multimodal notifications can be developed in co-design workshops involving different stakeholders (Sasao et al, 2017), we opt for an approach that encourages teachers and students to design notifications in face-to-face settings or by using asynchronous collaboration tools.…”