One of the building systems using personal data generated in the workshop ...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Initial Workshop Reflection
Our #acmDIS2017 workshop concluded with the presentation of seven short, fictional stories engaging with the issue of how people live with the built environment that interfaces with personal data. How did we get there?
First and foremost by being fortunate enough to have a great set of participants, 17 of them in fact. Thank you all! Participants arrived from across Europe and the US and there was great a cross-section of interests. Following the brief overview presentation by us organisers, these interests were evident in the short 3-minute presentations we exchanged with each other. They ranged from study methodologies to new uses and abuses of personal data, from public visualisations of personal behaviours to addressing building processes and from the use of sensor networks to understand building interaction to a whole host of other concerns. There is still much more to discuss.
Following this, we asked participants to work with mundane sensing and actuation technologies as well as widely available IoT devices. Things like ID card readers, key pads, sliding doors, speech interfaces and EEG head trackers. A wide variety of technologies that can be used to interface people and adaptive buildings today. Teams then used these technologies to design with, to create new interactive building systems, responding to a loose brief provided by us: Consider a specific building type. Consider the types of experiences that people have in this type of building. Design a system that responds to this context. An initial presentation of those systems followed at around lunch time.
We then challenged the teams to consider specific user groups that would use the new building system and associated services, to think beyond the 'interactive moment' and more long-term, and we challenged teams to address specific privacy and data retention concerns. Teams used these to further discuss and refine their designs.
At this point, we asked teams to split up to concentrate on developing design fiction in pairs, writing a utopian and a dystopian story about each of the proposed building designs. In a nutshell, this is how we got to design fiction. Watch out for future posts that show some of these.
First and foremost by being fortunate enough to have a great set of participants, 17 of them in fact. Thank you all! Participants arrived from across Europe and the US and there was great a cross-section of interests. Following the brief overview presentation by us organisers, these interests were evident in the short 3-minute presentations we exchanged with each other. They ranged from study methodologies to new uses and abuses of personal data, from public visualisations of personal behaviours to addressing building processes and from the use of sensor networks to understand building interaction to a whole host of other concerns. There is still much more to discuss.
Following this, we asked participants to work with mundane sensing and actuation technologies as well as widely available IoT devices. Things like ID card readers, key pads, sliding doors, speech interfaces and EEG head trackers. A wide variety of technologies that can be used to interface people and adaptive buildings today. Teams then used these technologies to design with, to create new interactive building systems, responding to a loose brief provided by us: Consider a specific building type. Consider the types of experiences that people have in this type of building. Design a system that responds to this context. An initial presentation of those systems followed at around lunch time.
We then challenged the teams to consider specific user groups that would use the new building system and associated services, to think beyond the 'interactive moment' and more long-term, and we challenged teams to address specific privacy and data retention concerns. Teams used these to further discuss and refine their designs.
At this point, we asked teams to split up to concentrate on developing design fiction in pairs, writing a utopian and a dystopian story about each of the proposed building designs. In a nutshell, this is how we got to design fiction. Watch out for future posts that show some of these.
Monday, June 5, 2017
Key Information
A summary of some useful, key information:
The workshop is designed to get us to work together on the emerging relationship of personal data and the built environment. We will spend the minimum amount of time presenting to each other, and most of the time working on a shared design exploration.
Could you please prepare a short (2-4 mins) Powerpoint presentation to introduce yourself and the key take away message from your paper. No more than two slides, please. Please send these to me by Friday 9th of June lunch time, so that we can merge them into one presentation.
As mentioned in the call, we will prepare a compendium of accepted contributions and share those with you before the workshop.
Workshops are being held at The Glass Room - Edinburgh Napier University (Not at the main conference venue). Details can be found here: http://dis2017.org/venues/
Tea/coffee breaks and the lunch break are provided for by the venue. Could you please let us have any dietary requirements? I will pass them on, while I don’t know yet how much influence we have on what is being served.
We are planning to collect generated material and do some audio/video recording during the workshop. This is covered by UoN Ethics and full details will be available at the start of the workshop. People are free to choose not to participate in the evaluation and still take part in the workshop fully.
Preliminary Workshop Programme
This is the preliminary workshop programme for our session on Saturday 10th June
9:00 Welcome tea and coffee
9:15 Welcome address
Introduction to the workshop topic by the organizers and the schedule for the day.
9:30 Participant presentations
These presentations are designed for people to introduce themselves and their paper, 2-4 minutes each.
10:30 Tea and Coffee Break
10:45 Design Session 1 – Devices, Places and Systems
In groups: Developing new user experiences around IoT devices in specific settings
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Group Feedback
Groups briefly feed back on their designs to the full workshop.
13:30 Design Session 2 – People and Fictions
Deepen the designs drawing on feedback and additional challenges
15:30 Tea and Coffee Break
15:45 Group Feedback
Groups present final designs
16:15 Concluding discussion and future plans
17:00 Close
Monday, January 16, 2017
People, Personal Data and the Built Environment call for Participation
Deadline extended to 3rd May 2017
People, Personal Data and the Built Environment
A DIS 2017 Workshop - The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, UK
Saturday 10th June 2017
Call for Participation
Personal data is increasingly important in our lives. We use personal data to quantify our behaviour, through health apps or for 'personal branding' and we are also increasingly forced to part with our data to access services.
With a proliferation of embedded sensors, the built environment is playing a key role in this developing use of data, even though this remains relatively hidden. Buildings are sites for the capture of personal data, such as oyster card gateways or WIFI hotspots. This data is used to adapt buildings to people's behaviour, for example when a card reader opens a door or occupancy changes the light levels in a building. Increasingly, organisations use this data to understand how buildings are occupied and how communities develop, and data supports design processes, when architects record requirements of their clients, and encode this in Building Information Models (BIM).
This workshop will bring together a community of researchers and practitioners interested in personal informatics and the design of interactive buildings and spaces. With an aim to foster critical discussion on the future role of personal data in interactions with the built environment.
Invited position papers might reflect upon the following (non-exclusive) topics:
· Internet of Things· Quantified self· Adaptive Environments· Technological retrofitting existing buildings· Social Computing in the community· Autonomous vehicles· Smart services in the built environment· Shared digital and physical resources· Living and working in the digital age· Legible and accessible uses of personal data· Privacy in a shared spatial context· Design processes and BIM· Open Data Access· Community live and digital technology
Participation is encouraged from researchers in HCI, architecture, pervasive computing, urban design the social sciences and beyond. Participants should submit a two-to-six page position paper in ACM CHI Extended Abstract Format to holger.schnadelbach@nottingham.ac.uk by
These will be peer reviewed by an interdisciplinary review-committee. At least one author of each accepted position paper must attend the workshop and all participants must register for both the workshop and for at least one day of the conference. The workshop will produce a compendium of work from participants, including group generated analysis and prototyping, and an edited volume presenting the results aimed to be included in the Springer Series of Adaptive Environments.
*University of Nottingham **Northumbria University ***Google ****Newcastle University
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