3 research outputs found
Recommended from our members
Connected seeds and sensors: co-designing internet of things for sustainable smart cities with urban food-growing communities.
We present a case study of a participatory design project in the space of sustainable smart cities and Internet of Things. We describe our design process that led to the development of an interactive seed library that tells the stories of culturally diverse urban food growers, and networked environmental sensors from their gardens, as a way to support more sustainable food practices in the city. This paper contributes to an emerging body of empirical work within participatory design that seeks to involve citizens in the design of smart cities and Internet of Things, particularly in the context of marginalised and culturally diverse urban communities. It also contributes empirical work towards non-utilitarian approaches to sustainable smart cities through a discussion of designing for urban diversity and slowness
Recommended from our members
The Right to the Sustainable Smart City
Environmental concerns have driven an interest in sustainable smart cities, through the monitoring and optimisation of networked infrastructures. At the same time, there are concerns about who these interventions and services are for, and who benefits. HCI researchers and designers interested in civic life have started to call for the democratisation of urban space through resistance and political action to challenge state and corporate claims. This paper contributes to an emerging body of work that seeks to involve citizens in the design of sustainable smart cities, particularly in the context of marginalised and culturally diverse urban communities. We present a study involving co- designing Internet of Things with urban agricultural communities and discuss three ways in which design can participate in the right to the sustainable smart city through designing for the commons, care, and biocultural diversity
Evaluating Effects of RFID Introduction Based on CO2 Reduction
In this paper, the effects of RFID introduction will be discussed with respect to the Carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction effect based on a case of Wal-Mart Stores. Companies eagerly introduce RFID technologies to improve supply chain management (SCM). Information and communication technology (ICT) is believed to improve environmental problems, such as creating sustainable society. The Kyoto Protocol requests the countries ratified to archive each CO2 emission target, and companies are aware of the target. However, it is not proposed the method to evaluate the reduction of CO2 emission by employing RFID technologies. The method to calculate the reduction effect of CO2 emission will be developed, and estimated the effect in a case of Wal-Mart Stores, and also evaluated its economic effect in SCM. In conclusion, the methods based on CO2 emissions reduction effect can be successfully developed to evaluate the effect of RFID introduction