Participatory Action for Citizens’ Engagement to Develop a Pro-environmental Research Application

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To understand and begin to address the challenge of air pollution in Europe we conducted participatory research, art and design activities with the residents of one of the areas most affected by smog in Poland. The participatory research events, described in detail in this article, centered around the theme of ecology and served to design an application that would allow us to conduct field research on pro-environmental behaviours at a larger scale. As a result we developed a research application, rooted in local culture and history and place attachment, which makes use of gamification techniques. The application gathers air quality data from the densest network of air pollution sensors in Europe, thereby aligning the visible signs of pollution in the app with the local sensor data. At the same time it reinforces the users’ pro-environmental habits and exposes them to educational messages about air quality and the environment. The data gathered with this application will validate the efficacy of this kind of an intervention in addressing residents’ smog-causing behaviours.

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Jaskulska, A., Skorupska, K., Bubrowska, Z., Kwiatkowska, K., Stawski, W., Krzywicki, M., … Kopeć, W. (2022). Participatory Action for Citizens’ Engagement to Develop a Pro-environmental Research Application. In Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (Vol. 440 LNNS, pp. 198–207). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11432-8_20

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