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Interfacing real-time ozone information

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In this paper we report an interesting case of disagreement, within a design team and the user base, about how to interface real-time ozone information in a mobile app. High levels of ozone are harmful to health. They are the result of pollution under certain environmental conditions. Until recently only a categorical qualitative description was possible for an entire metropolitan area. With the proliferation of environmental sensor networks installed by the federal and local governments, real-time quantitative and localized ozone information has become available. Although this is fundamentally a different type of information with respect to the legacy one, stakeholders appear split when it comes to changing the interfacing scheme. It is a powerful example of the hold of tradition and the dilemmas it precipitates in design. It also opens the discussion about interfacing newly-minted real-time spatio-temporal information for a wide range of pollutants and irritants (from particulates to pollen).

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    MapInteract '13: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on MapInteraction
    November 2013
    97 pages
    ISBN:9781450325363
    DOI:10.1145/2534931
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    1. design dilemma
    2. mobile weather app
    3. ozone mapping
    4. real-time pollutant visualization
    5. visual metaphor

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    • (2019)GEST-DC: Unifying Transportation and Air Quality Information in an mHealth ApplicationAdvances in Usability and User Experience10.1007/978-3-030-19135-1_38(385-398)Online publication date: 13-Jun-2019
    • (2014)Design and Usage of an Ozone Mapping AppProceedings of the Wireless Health 2014 on National Institutes of Health10.1145/2668883.2668885(1-7)Online publication date: 29-Oct-2014

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