{"id":498,"date":"2016-11-09T00:45:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T00:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/?p=498"},"modified":"2016-11-11T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T15:52:08","slug":"air-quality-group-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/2016\/11\/09\/air-quality-group-week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"air quality group Week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Project Goals:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The initial project goals where;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2018A 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.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Examples<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Augmented Reality<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Using AR to visualise something, in our case it would be air pollution.\u00a0 We selected this as it could help us engage with younger audiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Air Quality App \u2013 Breezometer<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Pollution Control Board \u2013 Eloor, India<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Large public display that shows real-time air pollution levels. We selected this as it can be shown to everyone on the high street.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Air Pollution Cladding<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Two types, one that cleans the air around it and another that changes colour depending on the current level of air pollution<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Clever bus shelter advertising<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A bus shelter that has an interactive display using smart technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Goals: The initial project goals where; \u2018A 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/2016\/11\/09\/air-quality-group-week-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">air quality group Week 4<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,25,27,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background-research-and-goal-setting","category-design-stage","category-project-activities","category-project-goals","category-team-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}