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A vehicle for research: using street sweepers to explore the landscape of environmental community action

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Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Boston, MA, USA

SESSION: Sustainability 1 table of contents

Pages 375-384

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-1-60558-246-7

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Paul M. Aoki	Intel Research, Berkeley, CA, USA
R. J. Honicky	University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Alan Mainwaring	Intel Research, Berkeley, CA, USA
Chris Myers	Isopod Design, San Francisco, CA, USA
Eric Paulos	Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Sushmita Subramanian	Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA
Allison Woodruff	Intel Research, Berkeley, CA, USA

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Researchers are developing mobile sensing platforms to facilitate public awareness of environmental conditions. However, turning such awareness into practical community action and political change requires more than just collecting and presenting data. To inform research on mobile environmental sensing, we conducted design fieldwork with government, private, and public interest stakeholders. In parallel, we built an environmental air quality sensing system and deployed it on street sweeping vehicles in a major U.S. city; this served as a research vehicle"by grounding our interviews and affording us status as environmental action researchers. In this paper, we present a qualitative analysis of the landscape of environmental action, focusing on insights that will help researchers frame meaningful technological interventions.

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