Understanding mass participatory pervasive computing systems for environmental campaigns

Chamberlain, Alan; Paxton, Mark; Glover, Kevin; Flintham, Martin; Price, Dominic; Benford, Steve; Tolmie, Peter; Kanjo, Eiman; Gower, Amanda; Gower, Andy; Woodgate, Dawn; Stanton Fraser, Danaë; Greenhalgh, Chris

Abstract

Participate was a 3-year collaboration between industry and academia to explore how mobile, Web and broadcast technologies could combine to deliver environ- mental campaigns. In a series of pilot projects, schools used mobile sensors to enhance science learning; visitors to an ecological attraction employed mobile phones to access and generate locative media; and the public played a mobile phone game that challenged their environmental behaviours. Key elements of these were carried forward into an integrated trial in which participants were assigned a series of environmental missions as part of an over- arching narrative that was delivered across mobile, broadcast and Web platforms. These experiences use a three-layered structure for campaigns that draw on experts, local groups and the general public, who engage through a combination of playful characterisation and social networking.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Oct 1, 2014
• Journal: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
• Print ISSN: 1617-4909
• Electronic ISSN: 1617-4917
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 7
• APA6 Citation: Chamberlain, A., Paxton, M., Glover, K., Flintham, M., Price, D., Benford, S., …Greenhalgh, C. (2014). Understanding mass participatory pervasive computing systems for environmental campaigns. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 18(7), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-013-0756-x
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-013-0756-x
• Keywords: Participatory Design, HCI, CSCW, Apps, Software Design, Ubicomp, Pervasive, Games, Eco, Environmental, Computing, Green, Ethnography, Technology, Broadcast, Education, Persuasive, Behaviour, Mobile
• Publisher URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00779-013-0756-x
• Copyright Statement: Copyright information regarding this work can be found at the following address: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0