U.App: An Urban Application Design Environment Based on Citizen Workshops

Sasao, Tomoyo; Konomi, Shin’ichi

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07788-8_56

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“…This suggested the potential use of notification triggering based on user's context on mobile devices. I presented the above results in an international conference [4].…”

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confidence: 77%

Support Environment for Co-designing Micro Tasks in Suburban Communities

Sasao

2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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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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“…This suggested the potential use of notification triggering based on user's context on mobile devices. I presented the above results in an international conference [4].…”

Section: Results and Dissertation Statusmentioning

confidence: 77%

Support Environment for Co-designing Micro Tasks in Suburban Communities

Sasao

2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…In addition, participatory approaches have been used to design ubicomp-supported visitor experiences in a historic English country estate (Hornecker et al, 2006), and to design a participatory application in public transit environments (Yoo et al, 2010). Sasao and Konomi (2014) have proposed workshop-based environments to support participatory design of urban applications. Moreover, web-based creative crowdsourcing services such as Neighborland (Neighborland, n.d.) and OpenIDEO (OpenIDEO, n.d.) attempt to generate good solutions by exploiting the creativity of a large number of participants.…”

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Community Reminder: Participatory contextual reminder environments for local communities

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Kostakos

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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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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.

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