This project aims to reconnect people to nature through new technology. Events in nature occur at times, places and scales that are hard to witness, leading to human disconnection from nature. We propose to address this time-place-scale disconnect by researching and designing new low-cost devices that combine environmental sensors with new interfaces to reveal local nature in parks and gardens in calm, engaging ways within and between homes. Outcomes will be new connected devices, playful interfaces and social sharing mechanisms; an evaluation with local groups; and a new theory of technology supported human-nature interaction. Anticipated benefits are new forms of community-led open science and conservation.
For more details visit: https://research.qut.edu.au/dplab/research/ambient-nature-network/
Funding / Grants
- Australian Research Council (DP190101647) (2019 - 2022)
Chief Investigators
Other Team Members
- Prof Paul Roe - QUT Principal Investigator
- Prof Yvonne Rogers - Partner Investigator
Publications
- Vella, Kellie, Rogers, Yvonne, Tulloch, Ayesha, Brereton, Margot (2024) Nature Networks: Designing for nature data collection and sharing from local to global. In Vallgarda, Anna, Jonsson, Li, Fritsch, Jonas, Fdili Alaoui, Sarah, Le Dantec, Christopher A. (Eds.), DIS'24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pp.1439-1452.
- Rodgers, Shannon, Ploderer, Bernd, Vella, Kellie, Brereton, Margot (2024) Phenology Circles: A Method to Deepen Relations in More-Than-Human Design Processes. In Vallgarda, Anna, Jonsson, Li, Fritsch, Jonas, Alaoui, Sarah Fdili, le Dantec, Christopher A (Eds.), DIS '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pp.1059-1073.
- Rodgers, Shannon, Ploderer, Bernd, Vella, Kellie, Brereton, Margot (2022) Phenology Probes: Exploring Human-Nature Relations for Designing Sustainable Futures. In Sweetser, Penny, Lawrence Taylor, Jennyfer, Martin, Charles, Mckay, Dana, Rogerson, Melissa, Cumbo, Bronwyn, Wadley, Greg, Hespanhol, Luke, Tsimeris, Jess, Xi, Mingze, et al. (Eds.), OzCHI '22: Proceedings of the 34th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp.216-228.
- Vella, Kellie, Dobson, Madeleine, Rodgers, Shannon, Om, Chimi, Bircanin, Filip, Dema, Tshering, Pillai, Jonathan, Murcia, Karen, Brereton, Margot (2023) Wired, wild, wonderful: A scoping review of early childhood nature connections fostered by digital technologies. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 38, pp.Article number: 100619.
- Rodgers, Shannon, Ploderer, Bernd, Brereton, Margot (2019) HCI in the garden: Current trends and future directions. OZCHI'19: Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction, PervasiveHealth: Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, pp.381-386.
- Vella, Kellie, Ploderer, Bernd, Brereton, Margot (2021) Human-Nature Relations in Urban Gardens: Explorations with Camera Traps. CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, pp.1-13.
- Vella, Kellie, Esteban, Michael, Ploderer, Bernd, Brereton, Margot (2022) Networked Gardens: Remediating Local Nature Data Through the Internet of Things. In Mueller, Florian `Floyd', Greuter, Stefan, Khot, Rohit Ashok, Sweetser, Penny, Obrist, Marianna (Eds.), DIS '22: Proceedings of the 2022 Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing, pp.1597-1611.
