My Naturewatch Camera: Disseminating Practice Research with a Cheap and Easy DIY Design

William Gaver; Andy Boucher; Michail Vanis; Andy Sheen; Dean Brown; Liliana Ovalle Piedra; Naho Matsuda; Amina Abbas-Nazari; Robert Phillips

doi:10.1145/3290605.3300532

My Naturewatch Camera: Disseminating Practice Research with a Cheap and Easy DIY Design

William Gaver, Andy Boucher, Michail Vanis, Andy Sheen, Dean Brown, Liliana Ovalle Piedra, Naho Matsuda, Amina Abbas-Nazari, Robert Phillips

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

64 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

My Naturewatch Camera is an inexpensive wildlife camera that we designed for people to make themselves as a way of promoting engagement with nature and digital making. We aligned its development to the interests of the BBC's Natural History Unit as part of an orchestrated engagement strategy also involving our project website and outreach to social media. Since June 2018, when the BBC featured the camera on one of their Springwatch 2018 broadcasts, over 1000 My Naturewatch Cameras have been constructed using instructions and software from our project website and commercially available components, without direct contact with our studio. In this paper, we describe the project and outcomes with a focus on its success in promoting engagement with nature, engagement with digital making, and the effectiveness of this strategy for sharing research products outside traditional commercial channels.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1-13
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450359702
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300532
Publication status	Published - 2 May 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 4 May 2019 → 9 May 2019

Conference

Conference	2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	4/05/19 → 9/05/19

Keywords

Design research
research through design
DIY design
opensource product
camera
nature
wildlife

Research Group keywords

Interaction Research Studio

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10.1145/3290605.3300532

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/30184/Licence: CC BY-NC

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Gaver, W., Boucher, A., Vanis, M., Sheen, A., Brown, D., Ovalle Piedra, L., Matsuda, N., Abbas-Nazari, A., & Phillips, R. (2019). My Naturewatch Camera: Disseminating Practice Research with a Cheap and Easy DIY Design. In CHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13). Article 302 ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300532

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