Fruit are heavy: a prototype public IoT system to support urban foraging

Carl  DiSalvo; Tom  Jenkins

doi:10.1145/3064663.3064748

Fruit are heavy: a prototype public IoT system to support urban foraging

Carl DiSalvo
, Tom Jenkins

Georgia Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Smart cities are one area of interactive systems design where the technologies and services of the Internet of Things (IoT) have the potential to serve public interest. In
this paper we present a design research project that explores the use of IoT technologies—specifically environmental sensing—to support urban foraging. We describe the design of a simple proof-of-concept sensing platform to monitor the relative ripeness of fruit in trees, and reflect upon its potential effectiveness for urban foraging. From the project, we draw out themes for designing in the context of smart
cities, including questioning the presumed “smartness” of IoT systems, and highlight issues in designing to support diverse community economies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Number of pages	12
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	10 Jun 2017
Pages	541-553
ISBN (Print)	9781450349222
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064748
Publication status	Published - 10 Jun 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems - Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 10 Jun 2017 → 14 Jun 2017 https://dblp.org/db/conf/ACMdis/ACMdis2017.html

Conference

Conference	ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
Period	10/06/2017 → 14/06/2017
Internet address	https://dblp.org/db/conf/ACMdis/ACMdis2017.html

Keywords

Foraging
Public IoT
Public Design
Participatory Design
Diverse Economies
Community Economies
Smart Cities
Digital Civics

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