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PV-Pix: Slum Community Co-design of Self-Powered Deformable Smart Messaging Materials
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Gethin Thomas,
Yogesh Kumar Meena,
Chi Zhang,
Adam Pockett,
Jen Pearson ,
Simon Robinson ,
Matt Carnie ,
Deepak Sahoo ,
Matt Jones
Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Swansea University Authors:
Kris Seunarine, Thomas Reitmaier , Gethin Thomas, Yogesh Kumar Meena, Chi Zhang, Adam Pockett, Jen Pearson , Simon Robinson , Matt Carnie , Deepak Sahoo , Matt Jones
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DOI (Published version): 10.1145/3411764.3445661
Abstract
Working with emergent users in two of Mumbai’s slums, we explored the value and uses of photovoltaic (PV) self-powering digital materials. Through a series of co-design workshops, a diary study and responses by artists and craftspeople, we developed the PV-Pix concept for inter-home connections. Eac...
| Published in: | Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-4503-8096-6/21/05 |
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New York, NY, USA
ACM
2021
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55971 |
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Working with emergent users in two of Mumbai’s slums, we explored the value and uses of photovoltaic (PV) self-powering digital materials. Through a series of co-design workshops, a diary study and responses by artists and craftspeople, we developed the PV-Pix concept for inter-home connections. Each PV-Pix element consists of a deformable energy harvesting material that, when actuated by a person in one home, changes its physical state both there and in a connected home. To explore the concept we considered two forms of PV-Pix: one uses rigid materials and the other flexible ones. We deployed two low-fidelity prototypes, each constructed of a grid of one PV-Pix type, in four slum homes over a four week period to further understand the usability and uses of the materials, eliciting interesting inter-family communication practices. Encouraged by these results we report on a first-step towards working prototypes and demonstrate the technical viability of the approach. |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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This work wassupported by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council grants EP/R032750/1 (https://deliot.me) and EP/N013948/1 (https://breaking-the-glass.com), and Welsh European Funding Offce SO1.1 Operation SPARC-II (https://swansea.ac.uk/sparc-ii/). |