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Photography and research captured by me + the neighborhood
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Research Question
• Could creating playful, highly mediated, public speech interfaces with water bodies help us imagine the tremendous agency and import that they have for our everyday lives?
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Goals
• Get to know the creek in my backyard via photography, observation, sensing, and talking to neighbors
• Collect water quality sensor data from the creek and create a public way (twitter) to dialogue with the creek in-situ and on the Internet
• Create an online repository with visualizations to explore the sensor data and support learning
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Prior Work & Inspiration
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Political/Hydrological by Lauren Rosenthal, 2006
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Amphibious Architecture by Natalie Jeremijenko & colleagues
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The Singing Bush and the Three Amigos (1986)
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The project has 2 sites
1. At the Creek: Neighbors see an oddly shaped, unnatural red thing sticking out of the water that talks constantly in “twitter language” and tells bad jokes
2. Online: Visitors see the creek’s live twitter feed, hear its tweeting updates as they happen and explore the sensor data both live and over time
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Online
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Interactive visualizations of sensor data that pan and zoom across time (seconds to seasonal)
@kanarinka I seem to be on the up and up, almost 14 inches today!
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Physical Object
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MeasurementsBUILT-IN
• Light Levels - Intersil ISL29023 high dynamic range ambient light sensor
• Time of Day - Real-time clock
• Air Temperature - Sensirion SHT21 high-resolution temperature/humidity sensor
ADD-ON
• Real-time Sound - Include the optional differential mic
• Water Temperature -10K Precision Epoxy Thermistor - 3950 NTC from adafruit
• Ph Levels - Silver chloride pH Sensor kit from Atlas Scientific/SparkFun + the Ph Circuit
• Water Level Sensor - eTape Liquid Level Sensor (24" version) from Milton Tech
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System Architecture
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Next Steps
• Keep working on my own little creek
• Gather information; Meet people; learn more about water ecology & measurement; Do my entirely unrelated thesis project.
• Is this the right thing for a particular context? Explore Babbling Brook at Tidmarsh, on the Mystic River.
• How to integrate with education and outreach efforts?
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Jokes Platform for Environmental Data?
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FUNNY!!
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on-siteobservation
networked sensors
Data Analysis & Comedy workshops
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if water temperature is above X and depth is below Y then say this joke:
"Knock Knock, Who's There? X Degrees. X Degrees who? Not-Really-Funny Punchline!!"
talking flower or other weirdness
web-based jokes platform
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Thanks