Author
Listed:
- Jennifer Preece
(College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)
- Daniel Pauw
(College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)
- Tamara Clegg
(College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)
Abstract
Water is becoming an increasingly precious resource across the world, but citizens can help ensure good-quality water by helping to manage their local watersheds. Local, place-based advocacy projects that are strongly grounded within their geographical area have the potential to inspire environmental change as citizens come together to collectively address environmental challenges in their own neighborhoods. However, less attention has been given to these small, intensely place-based local projects. Our research focuses on the interaction design of technology to support small, local, place-based “community-driven environmental projects” (CDEPs) for water management in the Anacostia River Watershed. Analysis of case study data collected over a 3-y period to identify the needs of CDEP members provides the basis for the interaction design of technology known as NatureNet to support CDEPs. From this research, six design insights for supporting CDEPs are suggested: ( i ) a shared common endeavor connected to the identity of the members, ( ii ) ways for newcomers and experienced participants to share a common space and function together effectively, ( iii ) support for different sources of knowledge, ( iv ) different modes of participation and ways for participants to express themselves, ( v ) different ways to express status through diverse opportunities, and ( vi ) support for porous and changing leadership roles. Taken together, the findings from our study suggest a preference for technology-lite, highly flexible software that supports the diverse needs of CDEP members.
Suggested Citation
Jennifer Preece & Daniel Pauw & Tamara Clegg, 2019.
"Interaction design of community-driven environmental projects (CDEPs): A case study from the Anacostia Watershed,"
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 116(6), pages 1886-1893, February.
Handle:
RePEc:nas:journl:v:116:y:2019:p:1886-1893
Download full text from publisher
Corrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nas:journl:v:116:y:2019:p:1886-1893. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Eric Cain (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.pnas.org/ .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through
the various RePEc services.