Experimenting with Novel Forms of Computing

Pargman, Teresa Cerratto; Joshi, Somya; Wehn, Uta

doi:10.1145/3338103.3338111

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“…Coming back to the thoughts of [11], [18] and [23], this study shows that IoT devices in form of small self-made sensor kits can have a minimum of embodied energy costs while having a large output, i.e. a worldwide locally-based community working on the measurement of PM and creating local implications on the public sphere and potential impacts on governance towards a more sustainable future.…”

Section: Using Civic Iot Sensor Data For Sustainable Cities or Communmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…Environmental monitoring leveraged by communities or engaged citizens has been researched by Pargman, Joshi, and Wehn [18] analyzed the potential of Citizen Observatories to form publics for management and stewardship of natural resources at the example of water quality management from a citizen science perspective. While the authors studied the potentials of public management organized by citizens in a direct way, this study will shed light on more indirect ways how an civic initiative like Luftdaten.info, by raising worldwide awareness on the PM topic, might have effects on local public spheres and governance, as well as on individuals' behaviors.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Particles Matter

Hamm

2020

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability

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This case study reveals how the Civic IoT project Luftdaten.info, though being organized within limits of technical equipment, resources, and academic knowledge, can contribute in multiple ways to more sustainable cities or communities: (1) People become aware and engaged for their local environment, and some change their behavior, (2) the project itself is managed in a sustainable way, (3) the publicly available data on particulate matter (PM) influences the local public sphere. Explored by a media content analysis and two expert interviews, the PM topic in Stuttgart can be characterized as a discursive long-term process. Nevertheless, a data map comparison shows how easily misunderstandings can occur caused by data analytical and visualization decisions. Finally, this study supports Meadows' idea that "[a]ll people and institutions play their role within the large system structure" but as Luftdaten.info shows, it is not only "industries, governments, environmentalists, and most especially economists [playing] essential roles in contributing to sustainability" it can also be ordinary, tech-savvy people making the first essential steps. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing; Computer supported cooperative work; Visualization design and evaluation methods; • Applied computing → Sociology.

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Section: Using Civic Iot Sensor Data For Sustainable Cities or Communmentioning

confidence: 92%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Particles Matter

Hamm

2020

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability

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“…Other blended spaces take place in the article Experimenting with Novel Forms of Computing: The case of the Swedish Citizen Observatory for Water Quality Conservation. Teresa Cerratto Pargman, Somya Joshi, and Uta Wehn describe the co-design of the Vatten-Fokus citizen observatory (CO), involving the participation of different human stakeholders (e.g., citizens, policymakers, scientists) in this process [7]. The VattenFokus CO is a socio-technical platform (a human and nonhuman hybrid tool) intended to address water quality and management in Sweden, and to identify the different perspectives various actors may take to this end.…”

Section: Other-than-humans Within Limitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Through our discussion of the above examples we identify practices through which people engage with the things they use, the humans and communities they care for, as well as with the land, plants, and other nature elements they tend. These are calls to "reframe the sustainable HCI practice" [28], create "radical frameworks" [10], and build "relational models in HCI" [7]. All involved in these design research examples [7,10,28] hold knowledges that were nurtured through conversation and interactions between humans, non-humans, and other-than-human entities.…”

Section: Other-than-humans Within Limitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Permaculture is one example of an approach to relinquishing (the illusions of) human control in farming, as it "provides an alternative model that emphasizes on the metaphor of cooperation (e.g., human as collaborator)" [28, p. 2]. The platform designed by Cerratto Pargman and colleagues embraces "relational models" as it allows for the construction of mechanisms of self-governance [7]. It deconstructs top-down hierarchies and empowers different stakeholders to have a voice in the water management of their community.…”

Section: Relinquishing Controlmentioning

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Who Are We Listening to? The Inclusion of Other-than-human Participants in Design

Santos

Shankar

Kaczmarek

et al. 2021

LIMITS Workshop on Computing Within Limits

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Designers' considerations of whom to include as a participant in design research continue to broaden, listening to individuals and communities previously unheard. Some even argue that other-thanhuman entities should be recognized as a type of participant, advocating for non-humans to have a voice in the design process. Through this paper we contribute to this conversation, arguing for a remembering of how to attend to our interactions with diverse forms of life. We refer to these entities as 'pervasive peripheral participants', drawing on early scholarship of Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger. We use this provocative phrase deliberately, to prompt us to consider how we learn with and through these relationships. Non-human, peripheral participants are ubiquitous in all aspects of life, and may inspire designers throughout their project's lifetime, from the environments in which they work, to the resources they use. These participants implicate and are implicated through design. While we recognize that the inclusion of pervasive peripheral participants in design processes is a challenging step to take, this paper holds up scholarly contributions which offer insights to those willing to join this work. We look to projects that do not limit participation in design to human-centred perspectives. These projects offer examples of how to engage with other-than-human ways of being, responding to Daniel Heath Justice's call to "imagine otherwise" (danielheathjustice.com). Learning from these approaches, we imagine how we might attend to relations with otherthan-humans through relinquishing control, fostering collaboration and relationality, practicing reciprocal acts of care, and valuing other temporalities. In doing so, we envision a future when interaction design practice welcomes a broader array of participation, creating space for more ethical and diverse worlds.

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