Puussaar, Aare, Montague, Kyle, Peacock, Sean, Nappey, Thomas, Anderson, Robert, Jonczyk, Jennine, Wright, Peter and James, Philip (2022) SenseMyStreet: Sensor Commissioning Toolkit for Communities. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6 (CSCW2). p. 324. ISSN 2573-0142
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Abstract
The rise of big data and smart sensing, with the promise of more educated and informed decisions, has fuelled a shift towards more data-driven decision-making in local and national government. However, we are observing a disconnect between the people who are affected by these decisions and their access to tools and resources to collect data in order to provide the needed evidence for change. To truly democratise this process and for citizens to become active prosumers of data, new mechanisms of citizen data production are needed. In this paper we report on a two-year ethnographic and iterative co-design process with the local community. This work encompassed the design, development and deployment of SenseMyStreet (SeMS), a bespoke sensor commissioning toolkit that enables citizens and community groups to use and commission a city's scientific-grade environmental monitors, determining where they will be located on their streets and collecting data to evidence hyper-local issues. Unlike prior research, which creates alternative data sources to contest city data, our toolkit helps integrate citizen commissioned data into the city datasets used by citizens and decision-makers. Reflecting on the design process and evaluating the ways people engaged with the digital tools of the toolkit, we highlight how commissioning can be configured to promote equity in the smart city, empower citizens to take ownership of issues and facilitate the creation of community networks that utilise the data for local benefit.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Funding information: Research funded by EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Civics (EP/L016176/1), Centre for Digital Citizens - Next Stage Digital Economy Centre (EP/T022582/1), UK Collaboratorium for Research in Infrastructure & Cities: Urban Observatories (EP/P016782/1), DERC: Digital Economy Research Centre (EP/M023001/1). |
| Subjects: | G400 Computer Science |
| Department: | Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Computer and Information Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Elena Carlaw |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Dec 2022 16:25 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Dec 2022 16:30 |
| URI: | https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/50985 |
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