Sunyoung Kim
Eric Paulos
ABSTRACT
Good indoor air quality is a vital part of human health. Poor indoor air quality can contribute to the development of chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma, heart disease, and lung cancer. Complicating matters, poor air quality is extremely difficult for humans to detect through sight and smell alone and existing sensing equipment is designed to be used by and provide data for scientists rather than everyday citizens. We propose inAir, a tool for measuring, visualizing, and learning about indoor air quality. inAir provides historical and real-time visualizations of indoor air quality by measuring tiny hazardous airborne particles as small as 0.5 microns in size. Through user studies we demonstrate how inAir promotes greater awareness and motivates individual actions to improve indoor air quality.
- Aoki, P.M., Honicky, R.J., Mainwaring, A., Myers, C. Paulos, E. Subramanian, S. Woodruff, A., A vehicle for research: using street sweepers to explore the landscape of environmental community action. ACM SIGCHI 2009 Google Scholar
Digital Library
- Ballegard, A.S., Hansen, T.R., Kyung, M., Healthcare in everyday life: designing healthcare services for daily life, ACM SIGCHI 2008. Google ScholarDigital Library
- CO2Meter, http://www.co2meter.com/Google Scholar
- Corburn, J., Street science: community knowledge and environmental health justice, MIT Press, 2005.Google Scholar
- Dylos Corporation, http://dylosproducts.com/Google Scholar
- EPA. Building and the Environment: A statistical Summary, U.S Environmental Protection Agency, 2004Google Scholar
- Hooker, B., Gaver, W., Steed, A., Bowers, J., The Pollution e-Sign. Workshop on Ubiquitous Sustainability. UbiComp, 2007Google Scholar
- Jones, A.P., Indoor air quality and health, Atmospheric Environment 33, 28, 1999Google ScholarCross Ref
- Kay, J., Big health risk seen in some laser printers. San Francisco Chronicle, 2007, 8-1Google Scholar
- Meredith C.M, Patrick N.B, Elizabeth C.M, Nadia N.H, D'Ann W, Jean C, Peyton E, Gregory B.D., In-Home Particle Concentrations and Childhood Asthma Morbidity, Environmental Health Perspectives, 2009,Google Scholar
- Mitchell, C.S., Zhang, J., Sigsgaard, T., Jantunen, M., Lioy, P.J., Samson, R., Current State of the Science: Health Effects and Indoor Environmental Quality, Environ Health. 2007Google Scholar
- Paulos, E., Honicky, R.J., Hooker, B., Citizen Science: Enabling Participatory Urbanism in The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City. IGI Global 2009.Google Scholar
- Whitesell, K., Kutler, B., Ramanathan, N, Estrin, D., A System for Determining Indoor Air Quality from Images of an Air Sensor Captured on Cell Phones, ImageSense 2008Google Scholar
- Zock, J. P., Plana, E., Jarvis, D., The Use of Household Cleaning Sprays and Adult Asthma, Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2007Google Scholar
Index Terms
- inAir: measuring and visualizing indoor air quality
Recommendations
inAir: a longitudinal study of indoor air quality measurements and visualizations
CHI '13: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsIndoor air quality (IAQ) is important for health as people spend the majority of time indoors, and it is particularly interesting over outdoor air because it strongly ties to indoor activities. Some activities easily exacerbate IAQ, resulting in serious ...
InAir: sharing indoor air quality measurements and visualizations
CHI '10: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsThis paper describes inAir, a tool for sharing measurements and visualizations of indoor air quality within one's social network. Poor indoor air quality is difficult for humans to detect through sight and smell alone and can contribute to the ...
Mobile observatory: an exploratory study of mobile air quality monitoring application
UbiComp '13 Adjunct: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publicationWe present Mobile Observatory, a mobile air quality monitoring application that provides evaluation of air quality of the city of Zurich, Switzerland. As Mobile Observatory utilizes air quality data gathered by sensors mounted on around 10 trams in ...
Comments