Providence
Digital+Media: Environmental Justice Research Cluster at the Rhode Island School of Design
Lead by Sara Wylie, RISD Digital+Media and Graphic Design Students Jae Ok Lee, Byeongwon Ha, Kyuha Shim and Mara Streberger, James Schaffroth, Yuyu Chen,are developing a Roomba indoor air pollution hunting robot, a hydrogen sulfide screening tool and home-testing kit for environmental estrogens. We use lights on the Roomba to produce long-exposure image maps of rooms to identify sources of indoor air-pollution. The resulting photographs are beautiful and data rich examples can be seen here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/smartproof/5207305186/in/photostream/
Anyone from the Providence area is invited to join -- discussions happen on our mailing list here:
https://groups.google.com/group/env-justice-risd
We're meeting Tuesdays at 5pm at the Weybosset St. building for D+M -- if you're interested in working with us, please email the list above.
Up Coming Events
End of January Roomba Hackathon!
Projects
Media And Gallery Shows
"Public Lab Aims for Affordable Hydrogen Sulfide Sensors" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog- Sara Wylie and Shannon Dosemagen, 10/25/11
Grist: In the future, cleaning robots will sniff out air pollution- Jess Zimmerman, 7-18-11
Technology Review: Robot lights up at pollution- Kristina Grifantini, 7-17-11
[[http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/shannon/11-17-2011/roomba-air-quality-mapping-ethnographic-terminalia-exhibit-montreal|Public Lab show in Montreal featuring Roomba]]