Support Environment for Co-designing Micro Tasks in Suburban Communities

Abstract

Designing usable tasks for coping with civic challenges can be hard without an appropriate design environment. I explore a support environment for co-designing them with citizens. I expect that co-designed tasks will help address urban issues and extend the possibility of citizen-centered urban design methods. Author Keywordsco-design; urban design; place-based micro task; ACM Classification KeywordsH.5.m. Information interfaces and presentation (e.g., HCI): Miscellaneous Research SituationMy university's PhD program in Department of SocioCultural Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences is based on the trans-disciplinary approaches within nature, urban society, culture, buildings, civil constructions and informatics. The program aims to analyze/evaluate/forecast/create/ manage the complex urban environment in the context of such interrelationships among different components. In particular, my laboratory aims at contributing to the body of interdisciplinary knowledge that provides grounding for designing and evaluating a city-scale Ubiquitous Computing environment that can increase the quality of life in a city. I am a spatial information scientist who is in the doctoral program for 2 years that is expected to finish in 1.5 years at the time of writing. My research aims at realizing support environment for co-designing micro tasks in suburban communities. So far, I have finished building an initial prototype and conducted user studies for one month. Based on the result, I improve the effective model and the system for place-based micro tasks. I hope to gain new insights about my research from others with different backgrounds by attending the Doctoral Consortium.

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“…Mahyar et al's CommunityCrit system takes a step outside the conventional by enabling citizens to voice concerns and opinions about community issues and projects via crowdsourcing technology instead of the typical in-person workshop, but the data from their system is still passed to the local government to ultimately make the decisions [49]. Sasao et al have also made strides in the area of engagement outside of official workshops with the use of systems to engage people in microtasks for community upkeep and collaborative social activities in existing community spaces [66,67]. Sasao and collaborators also work on the problem of vacant lots and buildings, but their system is confined to data gathering and geared to facilitating small upkeep tasks rather than complete overhaul of the space [68].…”