We have done the process of Sprint One of the
Designing Smart City based on our research and perspective. The next step is
the advance one, we will try to find out what are on people’s minds about their expectation regarding citizen-centric smart
city. But, before we are trying to reach out another people’s mind, we need
to know the basic of smart city first. By asking ourselves ‘what is
citizen-centric smart city?’ means we are trying to compare our own parameter
about the smart city to people’s mindset about the smart city, even though they
are not familiar to this topic.
When I was thinking about the smart city, I had
been thinking about five outlines or basic definition about smart city. First
and Second, it displays data to citizen in order
for people to take some beneficial things from the data
being displayed. Third, it also helps its citizen to provide
some solutions by collecting and processing data from the citizen
themselves. Fourth, it is the technology which helps
citizen’s daily life. Lastly, I defined it is a technology to
satisfy citizen needs.
Figure 2.1 Defining Three Aspects
After we had done defining the citizen-centric
smart city by dividing our definitions into different sections, we decided to
give three big aspects that a smart city should be. Basically, smart city
should collect and display data,
smart city obviously needs to be human-centered or focus on citizen and smart city needs to be appeared in a form of
any kind of technology to enable the
citizen to interact with.
Figure 2.2 Combining Existing Technologies
Once the definition has been defined towards
three aspects, the technology needs to be defined as well to give us a broad
idea about smart city with the deeper understanding of it. Most of my ideas is
toward the citizen and technology aspect,
as I had mentioned City
Cycle, Mineral
Water Vending Machine and Electronic Road
Pricing. Overall, the rest of the attendees had created ideas which were
satisfying those three aspects. So, basically our class agree that smart city
needs to be related to data, citizen and technology.
Figure 2.3 Two Possible Sites For Implementing Smart City
Our supervisor had told us that we are going to
be dealing with de-identified data that consist of number of students who
logged themselves to UQ access point and students’ current location based on
the location that they are logged into. Also, our supervisor had decided two
great spots that could be possibly where most people go through by in their
daily life at UQ St Lucia campus. The first spot is the fountain water between
UQ great court and Physics Annexes building which interconnect UQ main
buildings in UQ surroundings. The second spot would be the fountain water
besides Merlo coffee shops which connects UQ great court with buildings located
in western of UQ surroundings. In this occasion, we were requested to do some
site survey, collecting some facts, visualizing the future installation look
alike by visiting both actual site. However, our time is up and will be
continued on the following day.
Figure 2.4 Research Questions
The following day, continuing our previous
design process from both sites, we are requested to conduct a deep survey to
several respondents who are coincidentally passing through the spot. Previously,
we had been asked by our supervisor to create five or six questions regarding
the respondents related impressions, feelings and expectations about
installation around that spot as I have displayed above. In this occasion, my
team had decided to conduct the survey at the Physics Annexes building since
the other group had decided to do the other one.
Figure 2.5 Creating Banner For Attracting Respondents and Doing an Interview
As a result, we can conclude that activities
that usually being done by people are sort of eating their lunch, accessing
Merlo coffee at the social sciences library and who wants to get to another building by cutting
through the great court. Most likely, our respondents are feeling calm and relax while they are passing through this spot
because of the sound comes from the water fountain. At last, they are also expecting a static information to be
displayed at the site such as UQ students achievements and a dynamic information such as UV index or
weather forecast. Even though their thoughts about information is contradicting
to our information that will be displayed, but their thoughts will be useful in
designing something brilliant.
Such a great interview with all respondents out
there. Their thoughts will be a good insights and suggestion for making our own
concept based on people desires to this project. Eventually, I had made two
rough concepts about what I have been thinking about building smart city
environment in UQ surroundings. At the time, I was keen on creating smart city
environment in physics annexes building because of its location connecting five
different libraries.
Figure 2.6 Rough Concepts For Smart City
First concept that I have been thinking of is
called Screen of Logged in Library. This concept is
basically going to show people who are passing by the fountain by giving them current condition of the
library (whether it is crowded or not) by giving them a video of big cities
or small cities. While people are walking, they will be having sort of consideration
in choosing which library they should take for studying or any kind activities
while they are in library. Second Concept that I have been thinking of is
called Places Recommendation. This is not my favorite
one, but I am sure this one is also necessary to be implemented. This concept
will be installed in Merlo Coffee fountain water and utilizes two sides of wall
that display recommended places in UQ
and recommended places for study in UQ
based on the most logged in location data in UQ.
Figure 2.7 Deep Analysis From The Research
Meanwhile, we are also analyzing the results of
our research that had been taken from respondents. We divided our analysis into
three integrated sections which are The Space, Data and People’s
Thoughts. There are several things that I have mentioned above about
the respondents’ answers regarding our questions and I might add just a little
bit of additions. In order for them to be attracted with our installation, it
needs shade in order for them to prevent of sunburn while using the
installation. Also, they would like to use the installation if it has something that will draw their
attention such as laser, lighting, sounds or combination between audio
visual. There is also one interesting thought from our respondent which was utilizing robot machine for human and
technology interaction.
Figure 2.8 Feedbacks From Colleagues After The Concept Presentation
After we did some advance analysis on our
research and creating rough concepts for the future installation, it is the
time for us to grab the researcher’s attention by giving them sometime to look
on what we have done so far. We had been presenting to seven of our colleagues
in UQ Co-Innovation Center who have been experiencing many things in design
thinking and producing a design. I did some presentation for them for both
concepts that I have made. While we were doing our presentation, they were
giving us some feedbacks and comments regarding our concept in a form of
question and straight forwarded comments to the concepts. Overall, they had
been asking about my targeted audience
that seems not clear enough for them. Then, the elaboration
between data and the video that I have chosen which needs to be more
communicative so that the targeted audiences will not have to asking the
meaning again. One of my colleague also suggest me to make the video into something more distinguished so that people can
differentiate which libraries is most likely vacant instead using city
comparison which does not related to libraries vacancy. Finally, one of them
wants me to elaborate the existing fountain water with the
installation that we will working on.
Figure 2.9 Top Seven Possible Concepts To Be Implemented
At the end of the session, like it or not, we
need to choose top seven ideas that might have the best potential to be
implemented by our groups in this class. In order for us to create a better way
in making a decision, we defined eight different aspects that need to be
satisfied by giving each one of the aspect score from one up to three. Higher
score means that the installation has satisfied all of eight aspects. Once we
had done with the scoring, the students need to give two stars for the concept
that they might concern for getting into an advance development. As a result,
we have our top seven concepts that soon to be implemented by both of groups in
this class.