Open Data Islands and CommunitiesAlan DixTalis and University of Birmingham

http://alandix.com/academic/talks/SICSA-2016/http://tireetechwave.org/odic/

EPCGI’2016

Covilhã, PortugalHCI All Hands 2016

Tiree

Tiree Tech WaveMarch 2017

University ofBirmingham

today I am not talking about …

• intelligent internet interfaces• visualisation and sampling• small device – large display interactions• fun and games, virtual crackers,

artistic performance, slow time• physicality and product design• creativity and Bad Ideas• modelling dream, regret,

the emergence of self

… or even lots of lights

http:/www.hcibook.com/alan/projects/firefly/

REF !!!

… and certainly not to mention …

UK University Research Assessment Exercise

I am talking about

digital technology

data

margins – geographic, social, economic

HCI trendsOpen DataTiree an island communityAlan Walks WalesTiree ProjectsOpen Data reduxODIC data flows

HCI trendsOpen DataTiree an island communityAlan Walks WalesTiree ProjectsOpen Data reduxODIC data flows

HCI trends… (some!)

choice?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1980s_computer_worker,_Centers_for_Disease_Control.jpghttps://www.flickr.com/photos/sergesegal/4913456192

https://www.gov.uk/

1970s & 1980semployers choose

1990s & 2000sconsumer choice

2010s eCitizenary

a growing divide?

HCI

CSCW, socialinformation systems

ethical, political

dataHuman-DataInteraction

first paper on privacy in HCI

@ Interact’90

machine learning/AI & HCI

1992 – gender and ethnic biasin AI & ML

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Open data …

Open Data

everyone is doing it

Governments, Cities, local gov.

In C21 Data is Power

government

big cities

large homogeneous datasets the low hanging fruit of open data

data is power

why not an island?

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Tiree an island community

About Tiree

poor mobilephonecoverage

650 residents24,000 summer visitors

geographically remote & limited access to services

poor in economic capital rich in human capital

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there are many communities like Tiree across the world

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Alan Walks Wales

1000 miles of community, technology and poetry

Welsh Coast Path

opened May 2012linking existing pathsa single way marked routewith Offa’s Dyke encircles Walesthree full traversals in 2012 (one running)

vision

personalencircling, encompassing, pilgrimage, homecoming,

practicalIT for the walker & IT for local communities

philosophicalreflections on walking and space, locality and identity

researchpersonal agenda and living lab

no hard boundaries

research – practicepersonal – philosophical

19th century science or Mediaeval?

data

locationGPX ... batteries ... sporadic signals ....

bio-sensingECG (heart), EDA (skin) and accelerometers

audio and imagesin the moment

textafter the event

implicit

explicit

+ semantic markup

Hack Alan!

always connected?

mobile signalabsent or weak

broadband ...not so broad

masts point to seanot land ...yachts = money

https://explore.ee.co.uk/coverage-checker

... not a recent issue ...

1994 maybe first

HCI & mobile

journal paper

community

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Tiree projects

Tiree Tech Wave

island projects – slow research

Frasan - mobile heritage appOnSupply – renewable energy awarenessProjected touch-tableTireeConnect – island communication

gossip is not enough!TireeDashboard

General patternunderstand – act – reflect

… takes time

island heritage

An Iodhlannisland archive15000 items

frasanmobile heritage appN.B no signal!

On Supply

the chip van that tweets … … and the internet connected Open sign

Tiree Touch Table – version 1

Tiree Touch Table – redux

TireeConnect

island communication–gossip is not enough!

SMS + SM portal for youth work

public display

Tiree Dashboardeach ‘app’ offers

summary information …

… and expandsto link to sources

and further details

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data architecture

primarydata layer

applicationdata layer

API / RSS

web scrape

entry form

sensors

json AJAX datafor each app

text feed fortickertape

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HCI trendsOpen DataTiree an island communityAlan Walks WalesTiree ProjectsOpen Data reduxODIC data flows

open data not just about IP

open datais only as open

as the means to use it

“I don’t know if any public sector has necessarily cracked the nut on

attracting the right skills and capabilities,” …

“The commercial sector has, because they’ve got the dollars to spend.”

(Ian Bartram, Gartner)

how can small communities find, access, and visualise, open data?

open datais only as open

as the means to create it

small communitiessubjects of digital databut rarely producers

invisible

HCI trendsOpen DataTiree an island communityAlan Walks WalesTiree ProjectsOpen Data reduxODIC data flows

open data islands and communitiesdata flows

ODIC data flows

Community

groups and individuals

rest ofthe world

othercommunities

12

3

4

ODIC data flowsfrom community to world

Community

groups and individuals

rest ofthe world

1• visibility and

control• identity and

empowerment• level of detail• local knowledge

ODIC data flowsfrom world to community

Community

groups and individuals

rest ofthe world

2 • making the mostof open data• local decision

making• lobbying and

negotiation

ODIC data flowswithin the community

Community

groups and individuals

3

• gossip is not enough!• sparse, dispersed population• social cohesion and economic benefits

ODIC data flowsbetween communities

Community

groups and individuals

othercommunities

4

• sharing best practice• brand presence• interlinked data

benefits to …

the communityempowerment and controlavailability of informationcommunication within and between communities

the worldimproved quality of datalevel of detail of datalocal knowledge and understanding

research challenges

multiple heterogeneous datasetsthe long tail of small data

algorithmics of and design for disconnection

end-user visualisation and data manipulation

community engagement

who can make a difference?

Google won’t do it all

other placesWales dataflexible dataanything else