TY - GEN
T1 - Bridging Informational Divides
T2 - 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems, CHI EA 2024
AU - Balasubramaniam, Gowri Saini
AU - Belitz, Clara
AU - Chan, Anita Say
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Association for Computing Machinery. All rights reserved.
PY - 2024/5/11
Y1 - 2024/5/11
N2 - Surveillance technologies are rapidly being introduced in the United States as a cure-all for legitimate concerns around gun safety and community violence. We present a concise three-part educational guide on one surveillance technology - Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs). We profile one of the main distributing companies of ALPRs (Flock Safety, Inc.) in the United States and an analysis of 54 police instances of ALPR use in solving crime in the first 9 months following their installation in Champaign, IL, U.S. We aim to distill complex information into digestible formats for diverse readerships both within and outside of conventionally-recognized research networks. The goal of sharing this guide, as well as its creation process, both with and beyond academic networks, is to mobilize academic research skills towards a community-focused need. The iterative process employed embodies a commitment to meaningful engagement, community empowerment, and the pursuit of epistemic justice.
AB - Surveillance technologies are rapidly being introduced in the United States as a cure-all for legitimate concerns around gun safety and community violence. We present a concise three-part educational guide on one surveillance technology - Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs). We profile one of the main distributing companies of ALPRs (Flock Safety, Inc.) in the United States and an analysis of 54 police instances of ALPR use in solving crime in the first 9 months following their installation in Champaign, IL, U.S. We aim to distill complex information into digestible formats for diverse readerships both within and outside of conventionally-recognized research networks. The goal of sharing this guide, as well as its creation process, both with and beyond academic networks, is to mobilize academic research skills towards a community-focused need. The iterative process employed embodies a commitment to meaningful engagement, community empowerment, and the pursuit of epistemic justice.
KW - communication design
KW - community informatics
KW - data visualization
KW - information access
KW - surveillance technologies
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U2 - 10.1145/3613905.3644046
DO - 10.1145/3613905.3644046
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85194171709
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2024 - Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 11 May 2024 through 16 May 2024
ER -