Engaging a Divided Urban Community with Public Visualisations and Voting Technology: A Case Study in Cambridge
Lisa Koeman & Dr Vaiva Kalnikaitė
HCI background !PhD student at UCL (ICRI Cities): public visualisations of local data
Dr Vaiva KalnikaitėLisa Koeman
HCI background !Founder of Dovetailed Senior Visiting Fellow at UCL (ICRI Cities)
Public visualisations
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Nuage Vert
Candy Chang
Simon Heijden
Digital Slingshot
Neighbourhood Scoreboards
Mégaphone
Tidy Street
Aim: provoke discussion and reflection on different topics relating to the Mill Road community
UBI-Hotspot Tidy Street
Come to Your Census
UBI-Hotspot Tidy Street
Come to Your Census
UBI-Hotspot Tidy Street
Come to Your Census
UBI-Hotspot Tidy Street
Come to Your Census
NEIGHBOURLINESS
COMMUNITY FEELING
HAPPINESS
SAFETY
LOCAL SHOPPING
STREET BUZZ
SOCIAL TIES
“It has obviously been a really good talking point. People have been really interested in what is going on. I have heard some rumours that it is more positive on the other side of the bridge [Romsey] than it is from over here…”
“So many people have been asking about it [the visualisation]. In fact, a guy just popped in and said ‘I just ! want to see what today’s question is’”
“It being so temporary made it feel even more special, I found myself going to Mill Road more often”.
What have we learnt?
Lessons for engaging a community
Use unobtrusive technology playfully
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Lessons for engaging a community
Distribute input devices and visualisations
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Lessons for engaging a community
Exploit the power of relative data
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Lessons for engaging a community
Live data is not always best: slowly unfolding can match the rhythm of the community more
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Lessons for engaging a community
Design displays with a finite lifetime
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Lessons for engaging a community
1) Use unobtrusive technology playfully 2) Distribute technology & visualisations 3) Focus on relative data 4) Unfold data slowly 5) Design displays with finite lifetime
What’s next?
Source: Mood Building Project
VoxBox
Thank you!
Lisa Koeman, ICRI Cities, University College London Vaiva Kalnikaitė, Dovetailed / ICRI Cities, University College London Yvonne Rogers, ICRI Cities / UCLIC, University College London !!This work is funded by the Intel Collaborative Research Institute on Cities (ICRI Cities)
