TMI Ph.D. student Kit Lewers has been selected as a new Future Investigator in NASA’s Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology program! Kit will be continuing her existing research developing modular, microservices-inspired data pipelines that integrate spectroscopy and LiDAR data into biodiversity informatics. This is incredible work in collaboration with scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and in NSF’s NEON program! Congrats, Kit!
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“Wiring a City”: A Sociotechnical Perspective on Deploying Urban Sensor Networks
Abstract
We use a sociotechnical perspective to expand upon prior characterizations of deploying end-to-end urban sensor networks that focus primarily on the technical aspects of such systems. Via exploratory, semi-structured interviews with those deploying a number of urban sensor networks in a single American city, we identify ways that human decision-making and collaborative processes influence how these infrastructures are built. We synthesize these findings into a framework in which sociotechnical factors show up across the phases of data collection, management, analysis, and impacts within smart city projects. Each phase can display variability in immediacy, automation, geographic scope, and ownership. Finally, we use our situated work to discuss a generalizable tension within smart city projects between cross-domain data integration and fragmentation and provide implications for CSCW research, the design of smart city data platforms, and municipal policy.
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Hello! We’ve updated our site. Feel free to check out any of the projects we’ve been working on. If you have any questions, comments or jokes, feel free to contact us. On that note, congratulations to everyone submitting their CHI papers today. We are proud of the work you’ve put into them!
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TMI Lab R&D featured in CU’s official Pac-12 TV spot!
TMI Lab member and recent ECE grad Ha Tran is about to become famous in CU’s new Pac-12 TV spot, written and produced by CMCI students and premiering during tomorrow night’s CU-CSU football game! Check out the video on YouTube!
