TY - GEN
T1 - Designing and Building communIT
AU - Araujo De Aguiar, Carlos Henrique
AU - Green, Keith
AU - Pinch, Trevor
AU - Leshed, Gilly
AU - Guo, Kevin
AU - Jo, Yeolim
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.
PY - 2021/6/28
Y1 - 2021/6/28
N2 - Many subgroups in the US remain marginalized from, misunderstood by, or invisible to the larger communities they reside in. Technologies supporting community building, more generally, have focused on apps, but these apps can fall short of making visible and heard subgroups such as the LGTBQ+, immigrant, and black populations. In response to this shortcoming, we report on the design iterations and an early evaluation of communIT - an interactive artifact for making visible and heard subgroups towards building community. To inform the design of communIT, we conducted in our lab a design studio study (N=57), a co-design activity with a to-scale prototype (N=12), and a co-design activity with a full-scale prototype (N=28). This paper offers a design exemplar of a large-scale, cyber-physical artifact that might support groups in shaping their identities, practices, and roles in the larger community.
AB - Many subgroups in the US remain marginalized from, misunderstood by, or invisible to the larger communities they reside in. Technologies supporting community building, more generally, have focused on apps, but these apps can fall short of making visible and heard subgroups such as the LGTBQ+, immigrant, and black populations. In response to this shortcoming, we report on the design iterations and an early evaluation of communIT - an interactive artifact for making visible and heard subgroups towards building community. To inform the design of communIT, we conducted in our lab a design studio study (N=57), a co-design activity with a to-scale prototype (N=12), and a co-design activity with a full-scale prototype (N=28). This paper offers a design exemplar of a large-scale, cyber-physical artifact that might support groups in shaping their identities, practices, and roles in the larger community.
KW - Architectural robotics
KW - Cyber-physical systems
KW - Media architecture
KW - Responsive environments
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U2 - 10.1145/3469410.3469411
DO - 10.1145/3469410.3469411
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85118568406
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 1
EP - 11
BT - Proceedings of the 5th Media Architecture Biennale Conference, MAB 2020
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 5th Media Architecture Biennale Conference, MAB 2020
Y2 - 28 June 2021 through 2 July 2021
ER -