Alex Sciuto, Leslie Bloomfield, & Shannon Impellicceiri

How can we reconnect neighbors to each other and make them more aware of the neighborhood around them?

Survey 40 respondents

Interviews 7 average neighbors, 6 experts

Co-Design Workshop 10 participants

Storyboards 12 concepts

User Testing 6 prototypes

Research

Unexpected Insights

1 . Pioneers there are central connecting people who are the first to take initiative

Unexpected Insights

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Disengaged

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2. Involvement most neighbors want to be involved, but are held back by logistics

1 . Pioneers there are central connecting people who are the first to take initiative

Unexpected Insights

2. Involvement most neighbors want to be involved, but are held back by logistics

3. Sharing people trust their neighbors, even if they don’t know them, and are open to sharing information

1 . Pioneers there are central connecting people who are the first to take initiative

Unexpected Insights

2. Involvement most neighbors want to be involved, but are held back by logistics

3. Sharing people trust their neighbors, even if they don’t know them, and are open to sharing information

4. Technology people are interested in using sensors to collect data

1 . Pioneers there are central connecting people who are the first to take initiative

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Sensors are Local… …and also Digital

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A Trillion Sensors

1. Personal Body Networks

A Trillion Sensors

1. Personal Body Networks

2. Home Object Networks

A Trillion Sensors

1. Personal Body Networks

3. Open City Data 2. Home Object Networks

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A Trillion Sensors

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The Opportunity

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Introducing…

GrassRoots Sensor Kit

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CityRecipes

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Graphs

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Recipes

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Recipes

My Recipes View your graphs & outputs

Recipe Maker Create your own recipe

Cookbook Search and share recipes

My Neighborhood View sensors and data streams

My Data Manage personal and home data

Graphs Alerts Actions

GrassRoots Platform

Recipes

My Recipes View your graphs & outputs

Recipe Maker Create your own recipe

Cookbook Search and share recipes

My Neighborhood View sensors and data streams

My Data Manage personal and home data

Individual

Home

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GrassRoots Platform

My Recipes View your graphs & outputs

Recipe Maker Create your own recipe

Cookbook Search and share recipes

My Neighborhood View sensors and data streams

My Data Manage personal and home data

Graphs Alerts Actions

Recipes

Individual

Home

NeighborhoodCity

How Real People Would Use GrassRoots

Melissa Neighbor

Rick Community

Organizer

Scott Leader of Bike

Advocacy Group

“I would use GrassRoots traffic sensors to advocate for fewer unnecessary traffic lights, to cut down on emissions from idling cars”

“GrassRoots bike sensors would be great for tracking routes that cyclists are using”

“I would have loved to use sensor recipes to connect with other moms when I first moved to my neighborhood”