CITIZEN SENSE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Head of Digital Arts Computing and Lecturer
- Visiting Researcher
Pritchard, Helen. "Thinking with the Animal Hacker, Articulation in Ecologies of Earth Observation," in A Peer Reviewed Journal about Back When Pluto Was a Planet: The Reinvention of Research as Participatory Practice, edited by C Anderson and G Cox. Berlin/Aarhus: transmediale/darc, Aarhus University, 2013.
Helen Pritchard is Head of Digital Arts Computing and Lecturer in Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2013 Helen has been a member of the European Research Council funded project Citizen Sense. As an artist and geographer Helen's interdisciplinary work brings together the fields of Computational Aesthetics, Geography, and Feminist Technoscience. Read more
Helen Pritchard is Head of Digital Arts Computing and Lecturer in Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2013 Helen has been a member of the European Research Council funded project Citizen Sense. As an artist and geographer Helen's interdisciplinary work brings together the fields of Computational Aesthetics, Geography, and Feminist Technoscience.
Her practice is both one of writing and making and these two modes mutually inform each other in order to consider the affect of computational practices on bodies and environments. Central to Helen's work is the consideration of co-research, participation, and environmental practices. Her interdisciplinary research on "Animal Hackers" considers the entanglements of nonhuman animals with ubiquitous computing. Helen's practice often emerges as workshops, collaborative events and computational art. She is the co-editor of Data Browser 06: Executing Practices, published by Autonomedia. NY (2017). www.helenpritchard.info. @helen_pritchard
Job Titles:
- Principal Investigator
- Chairman in Media
- Co - Investigator
- Professor
Jennifer Gabrys is Chair in Media, Culture and Environment in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She was previously Professor in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she is currently an honorary Visiting Professor. She also leads the Citizen Sense and AirKit projects, which have received funding through an ERC Starting Grant (2013-2018) and ERC Proof of Concept Grant (2019-2020).
Her research investigates the intersection of social practices, environments and communication technologies through theoretical and practice-based work. Projects within this area include, Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics (University of Michigan Press, 2011); Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet (University of Minnesota Press, 2016); and How to Do Things with Sensors (University of Minnesota Press Forerunners series, 2019).
Gabrys has been a Co-Investigator on the RCUK Energy Programme and ESRC-funded project, "Sustainability Invention and Energy Demand Reduction: Co-designing Communities and Practice." This study, which was a collaboration with Mike Michael, Bill Gaver and the Interaction Research Studio, investigated how new technologies might be designed to engage communities in reducing energy consumption.
Gabrys, Jennifer. "Programming Environments: Environmentality and Citizen Sensing in the Smart City." In the special issue, "A New Apparatus: Technology, Government, and the Resilient City," edited by Bruce Braun and Stephanie Wakefield. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 32, no. 1 (2014), 30-48; DOI: 10.1068/d16812.
Gabrys, Jennifer. "Sensing an Experimental Forest: Processing Environments and Distributing Relations." Computational Culture, issue 2 (2012), http://computationalculture.net/article/sensing-an-experimental-forest-processing-environments-and-distributing-relations.
Jennifer Gabrys is Chair in Media, Culture and Environment in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She was previously Professor in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she is currently an honorary Visiting Professor. Gabrys is Principal Investigator on the European Research Council (ERC) starting grant, "Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice: Assessing Participatory Engagements with Environments through Sensor Technologies" and the ERC Proof of Concept grant, "AirKit." Read more
Job Titles:
- Research Associate
- Research Associate at Cambridge University
Joanne Armitage is a Research Associate at Cambridge University working on the AirKit project. As a practice-based researcher Joanne's work brings together computational practices, sound and feminist STS. This practice involves making, performing and co-creating to explore and unfold our technological experiences. Current projects include Machine Learning Imaginations with Helen Pritchard and Rebecca Fiebrink which looks at embodied and creative ways of knowing and critiquing machine learning techniques. Active as a performer within the live coding community, Joanne has written on failure, gender, technology and code. Read more
Job Titles:
- Data Analyst and Information Architect
Mahajan, S., Liu, H. M., Tsai, T. C., & Chen, L. J. (2018). Improving the accuracy and efficiency of PM2. 5 forecast service using cluster-based hybrid neural network model. IEEE Access, 6, 19193-19204.
Sachit Mahajan is a Research Associate on the AirKit Project of Citizen Sense in the Department of Sociology at Cambridge. His research interests lie in the area of Internet of Things and air quality sensing, especially focusing on participatory sensing systems that emphasize collaboration with citizens and local communities. He is also interested in developing machine learning algorithms and tools for spatio-temporal data analysis of IoT systems, and designing applications that can assist people in their everyday lives.
He has been actively involved in the Airbox project in Taiwan that enables PM2.5 monitoring at a finer spatio-temporal granularity and encourages citizen engagement by having an open-source framework . In the past, he also worked on the iSCAPE (Improving the Smart Control of Air Pollution in Europe) project (Horizon 2020) at the University of Surrey, UK. His responsibilities included leading field experimental campaigns for evaluation of air pollution control interventions and assessing air pollution sensor technologies and citizen involvement by organizing citizen science workshops.
Job Titles:
- Graphic Recorder and Illustrator