The CommYOUnity Data Project: Exploring Novice Evaluations of Urban Spaces

Sarah Cooney, Barath Raghavan

2023

Abstract

This paper presents the CommYOUnity Data project, which was designed to explore how people describe their urban surrounds. This project is part of a research agenda that aims to develop technological planning tools that can be used by grassroots community groups in revitalization and repair efforts. The project contains two parts: a photo-elicitation study called the CommYOUnity Data Site and a follow-up, the CommYOUnity Data Survey. Through the site we collected 37 images depicting local scenes with associated captions in response to a prompt asking residents to describe elements of the submitted scene they would like to see improved. We then followed up with the survey to dig deeper into the difference between description (of the elements of a scene) and prescription (of changes to be made). By analyzing both the photo submissions and survey responses we identified a set of themes, which we use to describe a set of possible technological tools for grassroots urban design.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Cooney S. and Raghavan B. (2023). The CommYOUnity Data Project: Exploring Novice Evaluations of Urban Spaces. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS, ISBN 978-989-758-651-4, SciTePress, pages 15-27. DOI: 10.5220/0011841000003491

in Bibtex Style

@conference{smartgreens23,
author={Sarah Cooney and Barath Raghavan},
title={The CommYOUnity Data Project: Exploring Novice Evaluations of Urban Spaces},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,},
year={2023},
pages={15-27},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011841000003491},
isbn={978-989-758-651-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,
TI - The CommYOUnity Data Project: Exploring Novice Evaluations of Urban Spaces
SN - 978-989-758-651-4
AU - Cooney S.
AU - Raghavan B.
PY - 2023
SP - 15
EP - 27
DO - 10.5220/0011841000003491
PB - SciTePress