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Oylum Boran | Thesis Studio 1 Proposal 12.16.2011

Thesis Proposal!OYLUM BASAK BORAN Fall 2011 Thesis Studio 1

12.16.2011


Domains!


Initial Overarching Design Question!

How can we engage citizens to think, talk, discuss issues about environment,

sustainability, urbanizim and take action to make a change in their local communities?

How can we achieve this by collecting and sharing real-time information utilizing mobile

technologies?


Prototype

Tip Jar Prototype

Post-it ideas to solve noise issue


Prototype

Tip Jar Prototype

Post-it ideas to solve noise issue

A good cause

An interest group

Specific goal and directions

Personal motivation / Incentive

What’s missing?!


http://collecttive.wordpress.com


http://collecttive.tumblr.com/


A specific goal / cause An interest group

Emotional connection to that goal by the users

Clear directions on what is expected

An engaging mechanism

A user-friendly, time efficient technology

Social networking features boost the effectiveness

What I learnt from prototypes!


Research Domains!

Civic Engagement

What does it mean? Why do people participate? Why they don’t? What’s the importance of local engagement?

Collective Action

Individuals with shared goals take action themselves and this forms a collective aggregate.

Social Computing & Social Intelligence

Designing technical systems that support, encourage and make use of social behavior by their users by enacting their cognitive abilities to achieve purposeful ends.

Social Sustainability

Creating sustainable, successful places that promote wellbeing, by understanding what people need from the places they live and work.


Precedents

Citizen 311 Reporting apps: CitySourced, SeeClickFix, 311 NYC etc. Neighbor Connecting Platforms: Hey, Neighbor!, Front Porch Forum, Fat Door


Who cares?!


City Governments!


Foundations!


Academic Centers!


And I care, as a citizen…


Do you?


An online platform for citizens where they share ideas about making their local communities better

▴  that hosts different activity proposals

▴  they vote for best ideas

▴  arranges physical meet-ups for execution

▴  allows for discussion, knowledge sharing

▴  maybe a platform where citizens respond to challenges by organizations.

Initial Concept!


Collaborative Public Services Design!

▴  They work in partnership with government agencies.

▴  They collect information about the community. ��(Interviews, cultural probes, ethnographic research.)

▴  They co-create ideas with local residents.


Collaborative Public Services Design!

▴  They are lacking a common forum for communicating with the citizens and the citizens among themselves.

▴  They need tools for citizens to collect and send them information.


An online platform that will serve as a communication venue for service developers and residents of a neighborhood, where they share resources and collected information about their community, where an ongoing discussion happens between citizens through a new type of social network.

Proposal!


Goal!To bridge the gap between service designers and citizen through an engaging, easy to use interface.

To create a venue for conversation and information exchange.


What if this is a model that can be adjusted and utilized for other organizations and projects? (A toolkit model)

Proposal!


Audience !//in the community level


Last Prototype!


By offering the needed tools and technologies to the members of a community to share their ideas and observations for the decision-making processes in their local communities , we can create more engaged communities who collectively take action to make a change in their local environments.

Thesis Concept!


Next Steps!

▴  Meeting with DESIS Lab before the break.

▴  Taking a class with Eduardo Staszowski: Public Services and Collaborative Design.

▴  Defining the needs of service providers as well as residents.

▴  Mock up interfaces.

▴  Build an interface prototype to test when the semester starts.

▴  Look at possibilities for alternative information collection. (Networked objects)


Tesekkurler!


Grounding Research - Theory

Thomas Erickson IBM Research Center Social Computing Group

‘Smartness’ = technology - Sensors and meters to collect data - Aggregate and analyze the data - And use that as input to dashboards, visualizations and control systems - People treated as passive and compliant

‘Smartness’ = people - People can gather data - People can analyze data - People can act on data - and they do this in ways that are qualitatively different from what digital systems do

VS


Grounding Research - Theory

Thomas Erickson IBM Research Center Social Computing Group

“ Social Intelligence is especially appropriate for cities and regions

That’s where the people are:

▴  Inhabitants develop a deep knowledge of the places they live, work and socialize in

▴  Inhabitants have a practical motivation for participating: it impacts their daily lives

▴  Inhabitants identify with places, and have networks of family and friends “

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