Slide 1What is Participatory Urbanism?Slide 3Slide 4Slide 5Slide 6Slide 7Slide 8Example Air Quality MeasurementsSlide 10Slide 11Slide 12Slide 13Slide 14Slide 15Research PaperAbstractIntroductionMotivating FieldworkSlide 20Slide 21FrameworkSlide 23Common Sense Community SiteSlide 25Slide 26Slide 27Slide 28EvaluationDiscussionConclusion and Future workReferences:Slide 33PARTICIPATORY URBANISMBy Miresh ShuklaEEL 6788 Advanced Topics in Computer Networks (Urban Sensing)Prof. Damla TurgutWhat is Participatory Urbanism?AIR POLLUTION TRAFFICPOPULATIONParticipation Urbanism is the open authoring, sharing, and remixing of new of existing urban technologies marked by, requiring or involving participation, especially affording the opportunity for individual citizen participation, sharing, and voice.Participatory Urbanism builds upon a large body of related projects where citizens act as agents of change.Participatory Urbanism presents an important new shift in mobile device usage – from Communication tool to “networked mobile personal measurement instrument”.We explore how these new “instruments” enable entirely new participatory urban lifestyles and create novel mobile device usage models.It is NOT a disconnected personal phone application, a domestic networked appliance, a mobile route planning application, an office scheduling tool, or a social networking service.Participatory Urbanism promotes new styles and methods for individual citizens to become proactive in their involvement with their city, neighborhood, and urban self reflexivity.Examples of Participatory Urbanism include but are not limited to: providing mobile device centered hardware toolkits for non-experts to become authors of new everyday urban objects, generating individual and collective needs based dialogue tools around the desired usage of urban green spaces, or empowering citizens to collect and share air quality data measured with sensor enabled mobile devices.Our mobile devices are globally networked, speak the lingua franca of the city (SMS, Bluetooth, MMS), and are becoming the dominant urban processor.We need to shatter our understanding of them as phones and celebrate them in their new role as measurement instruments.Our desire is to provide our mobile devices with new “super-senses” and abilities by enabling a wide range of physical sensors to be easily attached and used by anyone, especially non-experts.We argue there are two indisputable facts about our future mobile devices:(1) They will be equipped with more sensing and processing capabilities and (2) They will also be driven by an architecture of participation and democracy that encourages users to add value to their tools and applications as they use them.Millions of us carry a mobile device such as a mobile phone with us everyday.>The only real-time environmental data it renders is a narrow slice of the electromagnetic spectrum with a tiny readout of cell tower signal strength using a series of bars.MOBILE SIGNAL STRENGTH (SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO)http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/ParticipatoryUrbanism/index.htmlThe World Health Organization estimates that 2 million deaths each year can be attributed to air pollution - that’s more deaths than those resulting from automobile accidents.Project : Ergo (On-the-Go Air Quality Readings delivered to your mobile device)A simple SMS system that allows anyone with a mobile phone to quickly and easily explore, query, and learn about their air quality on-the-go with their mobile phone.You can receive real-time air quality measurements throughout the United States on your mobile phone. Just send a text message to the phone number and you will receive the most recent EPA air quality measurement data available. You'll be able to see the air quality change throughout the day as well as forecasts for the coming days.ExampleAir Quality MeasurementsPhone# (415) 624-667X (number inactive) Using Ergo If you text...a 5 digit zip code = you receive the most recent air quality reports for that area (ex. 94704)the word worst = you receive the worst three locations in the US as currently reported (ex. worst) daily zip time = you receive a report every day at the specified time for the given zip code. The time should be in 24-hour format and uses the time zone associated with the zip code given. (ex. daily 10011 1300) for daily air quality for New York City at 1pm Eastern Time daily worst time = you receive a report every day at the specified time of the worst air quality in the United States. The time should be in 24-hour format and interprets the time as Pacific Time Zone. (ex. daily worst 0900 ) for daily report of worst air quality at 9am Pacific Timedaily of = stops all daily messages sent to youHow to Interpret the Air Quality ReportsAir Quality Index Bakersfield, CACurrently @3:00 PM = 47 (GOOD) Ozone6/4: 95 (MODERATE) Ozone6/5: 124 (UNHEALTHY FOR SENSITIVE PEOPLE) Ozone (Report : The actual air quality report for Bakersfield for 4 June 2007)The system reports back the name of the city and the most recent data it is using to report the current condition. In this example @3:00PM, the Air Quality Index for Ozone is reported to be 47 for Bakersfield, California. Ozone is listed to tell you that the reading is for what is considered the major contributing pollutant for the day.Air Quality Index(AQI) ValuesLevels of Health ConcernColors0 to 50 Good Green51 to 100 Moderate Yellow101 to 150 Unhealthy for Sensitive PeopleOrange151 to 200 Unhealthy Red201 to 300 Very Unhealthy Purple301 to 500 Hazardous MaroonThe level of health concern from above is also included in the SMS message returned to you to aid in interpretation. The Air Quality Index (AQI) is a standardized indicator of the air quality in a given location. It measures mainly ground-level ozone and particulate matter (i.e. small particles in the air), but may also include sulphur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide. Various agencies around the world measure such indices, though definitions vary. In the US, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses the above AQI
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