Project Goals:
The initial project goals where;
‘A Newcastle university urban planning focused bottom up campaign initiative to increase user and community awareness of air quality control cantered on Gosforth high street. Working with the users on easy and effective forms of interpreting the data supplied by the air quality monitors situated along the high street, making the data accessible to everybody with the goal of increasing community awareness and support for self-managed air quality control through community projects.’
The Goals have mainly stayed the same as initially outlined, however, we have also reflected on our interviews and the progression in our designs in which have both led to the incorporation of further goals. These include a focus on smart technologies to present data interactively as well as improving the air pollution levels through new material innovations. Another goal we have added is the need for a community behavioural change from the current passive users to a more active user base improving interaction in air quality activism this was formed reflecting on Peter McDonalds interview. Reflecting on our interview with Duncan we decided to add to our project goals in relation to local business interaction and inclusion within our plans.
Examples
- Augmented Reality
– Using AR to visualise something, in our case it would be air pollution. We selected this as it could help us engage with younger audiences.
- Air Quality App – Breezometer
– This app gives the user real-time information about air pollution across 27 countries. Furthermore, the app gives location-specific notification at times of bad air quality. We selected
- Pollution Control Board – Eloor, India
– Large public display that shows real-time air pollution levels. We selected this as it can be shown to everyone on the high street.
- Air Pollution Cladding
– Two types, one that cleans the air around it and another that changes colour depending on the current level of air pollution
- Clever bus shelter advertising
– A bus shelter that has an interactive display using smart technologies.
Hi team, good to see the interviews have helped to set sight on further goals, such as “focus on smart technologies to present data interactively as well as improving the air pollution levels through new material innovations”. I also see the turn towards more active involvement of community members on this issue is a great one — and can easily scale beyond Gosforth if it works there. So it seems with this in mind, you have then done your inspiration search for other examples that may contribute pointers for parts of your product / service.
There are points for improvement here, too: If you start seeing reflective log entries as separate elements, you’ll start appreciating that they’ll need a bit of an introduction and conclusion as well as explanation of links between content in your log entry: How did your revised objectives relate to the sorts of examples you searched for? How did you go about finding the examples you listed? What specifically did you find inspiring about the selected examples for your project and how does this link to requirements from user interviews? Also, why not collect some images and put them in there to give a bit of a better idea how these examples ‘look’? You had these things in your presentation but not here. Please also note that it’s important to reference to where you found those examples.
Perhaps have a look to iterate / revise this post accordingly for the final reflective log.