Keywords
Design for Health
Sustainable HCI
Keywords
Sustainable HCI
Design for Health
Partners | Funders
The Roving Microscope, Cordwainers Grow
Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Human-Data Interaction network plus (Grant reference EP/L023504/1)
Publications
Heitlinger, S., Bryan-Kinns, N., & Comber, R. (2019). The Right to the Sustainable Smart City. Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300517
Project Summary
There are many different ways data is collected about people, services and resources in our cities. Some of this data helps organisations make key decisions about the ecological health of urban spaces. Much of this data is managed by local authorities or environmental organisations and not always available to local communities seeking to improve their neighbourhoods with a diverse range of species. Data collection technologies and sharing strategies have also been designed with a focus on human behaviours and interactions. In this project we used creative methods to decenter the human and instead draw attention to the ways in which humans and non-human others—such as soil, trees, foxes, weeds and insects—rely on each other to flourish in urban spaces. We are exploring what it means to design for data interactions through what we call a more-than-human perspective. This is to imagine other ways data could be collected, repurposed and interacted with to support diverse forms of life and enrich the ways that different species live together in the city.
MoTH Cities
More-than-Human Data Interactions in the Smart City
