Repurposing Post Offices as Community Innovation Hubs: Digital Inclusion, Equity and De-concentration
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Designing for participation in local suburban communications
People have difficulty accessing means to easily publicise and discuss their ideas and concerns with their local community. The aim of this research has been to design and evaluate capacity for Internet technologies coupled with public displays to engage a diverse range of community members in the making of a shared local suburban communications ne...
Reputation modelling in Citizen Science for environmental acoustic data analysis
Citizen Science projects are initiatives in which members of the general public participate in scientific research projects and perform or manage research-related tasks such as data collection and/or data annotation. Citizen Science is technologically possible and scientifically significant. However, although research teams can save time and money ...
Reputation modelling in Citizen Science for environmental acoustic data analysis
Citizen Science projects are initiatives in which members of the general public participate in scientific research projects and perform or manage research-related tasks such as data collection and/or data annotation. Citizen Science is technologically possible and scientifically significant. However, although research teams can save time and money ...
Towards designing digital noticeboards with a remote indigenous community
This position paper reflects upon the opportunities and challenges of designing a digital noticeboard system with a remote indigenous community that supports their aspirations for both internal and external communication. The project itself has evolved from a relationship built through ecological work between scientists and the local community on t...
Interactive design within a local community communication fabric
Our research considers the problem designing support for local community communications. We present a description of a suburban community communication fabric as revealed through observations of long-term use of a networked community noticeboard and the introduction of tailored email digest to registered noticeboard users. The paper contributes an ...
Designing for participation in local social ridesharing networks - grass roots prototyping of IT systems
This abstract explores the possibility of a grass roots approach to engaging people in community change initiatives by designing simple interactive exploratory prototypes for use by communities over time that support shared action. The prototype is gradually evolved in response to community use, fragments of data gathered through the prototype, and...
Networking serendipitous social encounters in urban neighbourhoods
In urban residential environments in Australia and other developed countries, Internet access is on the verge of becoming a ubiquitous utility like water or electricity. From an urban informatics perspective, this chapter discusses emerging qualities of social formations of urban residents that are based on networked individualism and the potential...
More Than Wires, Pipes and Ducts: Some Lessons from Grassroots Networked Communities and Master-planned Neighbourhoods
Community informatics research has found that the provision of technical connectivity in local neighbourhoods alone does not ensure community interaction. Externally initiated projects applied to communities by government or commercial bodies have encountered difficulties where the project’s goals do not correspond to the host community’s. Differin...
Research to Inform the Design of Social Technology for Master-Planned Communities
Developers and governments around the world are struggling to achieve socially sustainable neighbourhood communities in master-planned residential developments. This paper discusses research in progress that seeks to conceptualise the organic development of community in these sites as ‘communicative ecologies’. Focusing on the network qualities of ...
