Ambient wood: designing new forms of digital augmentation for learning outdoors
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Staying open to interpretation: engaging multiple meanings in design and evaluation
DIS '06 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems
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The BikeNet mobile sensing system for cyclist experience mapping
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N-smarts: networked suite of mobile atmospheric real-time sensors
Proceedings of the second ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Networked systems for developing regions
Paints, paper, and programs: first steps toward the computational sketchbook
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction
Electronics as material: littleBits
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Citizen noise pollution monitoring
Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Social Networks: Making Connections between Citizens, Data and Government
Local issues, local uses: tools for robotics and sensing in community contexts
Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition
Electronic popables: exploring paper-based computing through an interactive pop-up book
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction
WearAir: expressive t-shirts for air quality sensing
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction
Feminist HCI: taking stock and outlining an agenda for design
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Making food, producing sustainability
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Participatory design of sensing networks: strengths and challenges
Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008
HCI and environmental sustainability: the politics of design and the design of politics
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Fine bookbinding meets electronics
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction
Creek watch: pairing usefulness and usability for successful citizen science
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
GreenHat: exploring the natural environment through experts' perspectives
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Red balloon, green balloon, sensors in the sky
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
MAQS: a personalized mobile sensing system for indoor air quality monitoring
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Common sense community: scaffolding mobile sensing and analysis for novice users
Pervasive'10 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Pervasive Computing
Sustainably unpersuaded: how persuasion narrows our vision of sustainability
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Citizen drones: embedded crafts for remote sensing
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction
inAir: a longitudinal study of indoor air quality measurements and visualizations
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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We present an ultra low-cost sensing system, which enables participants to see and reflect on the particulates in their air. Drawing on prior work in paper computing, we introduce small sensors for particulate pollution that can be easily assembled from common paper materials for less than $1 USD, and mailed by regular postal service to residents of entire neighborhoods, cities, or geographic regions. Recipients collect particulate samples using these sensors and mail them back to a central location, where the particles are viewed and analyzed via a microscope. The data, which includes rich images of actual air pollution particles, can then be broadcast to larger audiences. This paper details the design of our system and its deployment with a local air quality activist community. We conclude by highlighting the tradeoffs between high-tech and low-tech sensing, and suggest opportunities for tangible interaction to support rich, new ways of seeing our environment.