sicsa : open data islands and communities
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Open Data Islands and CommunitiesAlan DixTalis and University of Birmingham
http://alandix.com/academic/talks/SICSA-2016/http://tireetechwave.org/odic/
EPCGI’2016
Covilhã, PortugalHCI All Hands 2016
Tiree
Tiree Tech WaveMarch 2017
University ofBirmingham
today I am not talking about …
• intelligent internet interfaces• visualisation and sampling• small device – large display interactions• fun and games, virtual crackers,
artistic performance, slow time• physicality and product design• creativity and Bad Ideas• modelling dream, regret,
the emergence of self
… or even lots of lights
http:/www.hcibook.com/alan/projects/firefly/
REF !!!
… and certainly not to mention …
UK University Research Assessment Exercise
I am talking about
digital technology
data
margins – geographic, social, economic
HCI trendsOpen DataTiree an island communityAlan Walks WalesTiree ProjectsOpen Data reduxODIC data flows
HCI trendsOpen DataTiree an island communityAlan Walks WalesTiree ProjectsOpen Data reduxODIC data flows
HCI trends… (some!)
choice?
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1980s_computer_worker,_Centers_for_Disease_Control.jpghttps://www.flickr.com/photos/sergesegal/4913456192
https://www.gov.uk/
1970s & 1980semployers choose
1990s & 2000sconsumer choice
2010s eCitizenary
a growing divide?
HCI
CSCW, socialinformation systems
ethical, political
dataHuman-DataInteraction
first paper on privacy in HCI
@ Interact’90
machine learning/AI & HCI
1992 – gender and ethnic biasin AI & ML
HCI trendsOpen DataTiree an island communityAlan Walks WalesTiree ProjectsOpen Data reduxODIC data flows
Open data …
Open Data
everyone is doing it
Governments, Cities, local gov.
In C21 Data is Power
government
big cities
large homogeneous datasets the low hanging fruit of open data
data is power
why not an island?
HCI trendsOpen DataTiree an island communityAlan Walks WalesTiree ProjectsOpen Data reduxODIC data flows
Tiree an island community
About Tiree
poor mobilephonecoverage
650 residents24,000 summer visitors
geographically remote & limited access to services
poor in economic capital rich in human capital
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there are many communities like Tiree across the world
HCI trendsOpen DataTiree an island communityAlan Walks WalesTiree ProjectsOpen Data reduxODIC data flows
Alan Walks Wales
1000 miles of community, technology and poetry
Welsh Coast Path
opened May 2012linking existing pathsa single way marked routewith Offa’s Dyke encircles Walesthree full traversals in 2012 (one running)
vision
personalencircling, encompassing, pilgrimage, homecoming,
practicalIT for the walker & IT for local communities
philosophicalreflections on walking and space, locality and identity
researchpersonal agenda and living lab
no hard boundaries
research – practicepersonal – philosophical
19th century science or Mediaeval?
data
locationGPX ... batteries ... sporadic signals ....
bio-sensingECG (heart), EDA (skin) and accelerometers
audio and imagesin the moment
textafter the event
implicit
explicit
+ semantic markup
Hack Alan!
always connected?
mobile signalabsent or weak
broadband ...not so broad
masts point to seanot land ...yachts = money
https://explore.ee.co.uk/coverage-checker
... not a recent issue ...
1994 maybe first
HCI & mobile
journal paper
community
HCI trendsOpen DataTiree an island communityAlan Walks WalesTiree ProjectsOpen Data reduxODIC data flows
Tiree projects
Tiree Tech Wave
island projects – slow research
Frasan - mobile heritage appOnSupply – renewable energy awarenessProjected touch-tableTireeConnect – island communication
gossip is not enough!TireeDashboard
General patternunderstand – act – reflect
… takes time
island heritage
An Iodhlannisland archive15000 items
frasanmobile heritage appN.B no signal!
On Supply
the chip van that tweets … … and the internet connected Open sign
Tiree Touch Table – version 1
Tiree Touch Table – redux
TireeConnect
island communication–gossip is not enough!
SMS + SM portal for youth work
public display
Tiree Dashboardeach ‘app’ offers
summary information …
… and expandsto link to sources
and further details
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data architecture
primarydata layer
applicationdata layer
API / RSS
web scrape
entry form
sensors
json AJAX datafor each app
text feed fortickertape
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HCI trendsOpen DataTiree an island communityAlan Walks WalesTiree ProjectsOpen Data reduxODIC data flows
open data not just about IP
open datais only as open
as the means to use it
“I don’t know if any public sector has necessarily cracked the nut on
attracting the right skills and capabilities,” …
“The commercial sector has, because they’ve got the dollars to spend.”
(Ian Bartram, Gartner)
how can small communities find, access, and visualise, open data?
open datais only as open
as the means to create it
small communitiessubjects of digital databut rarely producers
invisible
HCI trendsOpen DataTiree an island communityAlan Walks WalesTiree ProjectsOpen Data reduxODIC data flows
open data islands and communitiesdata flows
ODIC data flows
Community
groups and individuals
rest ofthe world
othercommunities
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3
4
ODIC data flowsfrom community to world
Community
groups and individuals
rest ofthe world
1• visibility and
control• identity and
empowerment• level of detail• local knowledge
ODIC data flowsfrom world to community
Community
groups and individuals
rest ofthe world
2 • making the mostof open data• local decision
making• lobbying and
negotiation
ODIC data flowswithin the community
Community
groups and individuals
3
• gossip is not enough!• sparse, dispersed population• social cohesion and economic benefits
ODIC data flowsbetween communities
Community
groups and individuals
othercommunities
4
• sharing best practice• brand presence• interlinked data
benefits to …
the communityempowerment and controlavailability of informationcommunication within and between communities
the worldimproved quality of datalevel of detail of datalocal knowledge and understanding
research challenges
multiple heterogeneous datasetsthe long tail of small data
algorithmics of and design for disconnection
end-user visualisation and data manipulation
community engagement
who can make a difference?
Google won’t do it all
other placesWales dataflexible dataanything else