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Designing for Doubt Citizen Science and the Challenge of Change
| Venue: | in Engaging Data: First International Forum on the Application and Management of Personal Electronic Information. 2009: MIT |
| Citations: | 10 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Paulos_designingfor,
author = {Eric Paulos},
title = {Designing for Doubt Citizen Science and the Challenge of Change},
booktitle = {in Engaging Data: First International Forum on the Application and Management of Personal Electronic Information. 2009: MIT},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Abstract — Vast quantities of data are collected about us and our world: credit card transactions, movements and traffic flows, social networks, disease outbreaks, bird migrations, and flowers blossoming. These datasets span a wide range of public and private information and contexts. However, it is the emergence of a host of mobile phone based citizen sensing platforms that is poised to become the dominant contributor to our datasets. In this paper we outline this important new shift in mobile phone usage – from communication tool to “networked mobile personal measurement instrument”. We propose to explore how these new personal measurement instruments enable an entirely novel and empowering genre of mobile computing and research called citizen science. More importantly we highlight a set of challenges and focus specifically on the need for introducing design strategies for engaging these datasets that encourage doubt rather than promoting blind acceptance of fact as a path towards social change. Citizen science; sensors; sustainibility; ambiguity I.
Keyphrases
doubt citizen science citizen science private information bird migration mobile phone usage design strategy traffic flow credit card transaction abstract vast quantity important new shift social network new personal measurement instrument mobile personal measurement instrument wide range social change mobile phone disease outbreak communication tool blind acceptance dominant contributor
