BusCount, a project in personal public computing that attempts to sense CMU bus stop usage and share that information with the community.

1. One sentence version of this (/tle?)
solomon bisker / buscount: a probe into ci/zen volunteerism and urban interac/on design
special topics in interac/ve art and computa/onal design / golan levin / carnegie mellon u

2. source: flickr, bobengland
what drives me (in 30 seconds): design can change the way people think about technology
(with a personal focus on technology for communi/es and shared spaces)

3. advocacy city‐wide values
source: flickr, ivanwalsh
self‐organiza/on community efforts
source: flickr, seaIlemunicipalarchives
self‐produc/on individual tools
source: flickr, makerbot
how I’m geFng there (in 30 more seconds):
applying the best of urban history and future tech trends to the design of public compu/ng

4. personal
public
compu/ng
source: flickr, woodsfehr
my current work (in the last 30 seconds, I swear): personal public compu/ng
individuals designing self‐empowering technologies for use in the places we share

5. source: flickr, adam.zethraeus
art? liIering? or a volunteer ligh/ng effort? exploring and establishing societal expecta/ons.
hypothesis: ci/es will support personal public compu/ng the way they support soup kitchens

6. source: Whyte, “Social Life of Small Urban Spaces”
holly whyte – an advocate for star/ng with people in city planning

7. my last project: democra/zing urban planning with the DIY $10 /me‐lapse keychain camera.
can people design their own technologies to observe and influence their world?

8. volunteer engineering, using cheap electronics…takes /me! s/ll buggy, proof of concept.
what can I do to explore this future today?

9. source: wingscapes
idea: spend a bit more to explore a cheap and usable near‐future. (classic Media Lab trick.)
the plan: use an $80 Wingscapes PlantCam as “design probe”…

10. source: eye.fi
…which we can (hopefully) load with a $40 Eye‐Fi Wireless SD card to see photos in real‐/me

11. pictures transmiIed in real‐/me… …and processed for informa/on… …for community viewing
example: blob detec/on to count those wai/ng for the next bus
the hope: with fancy toys, explore sobware tools for “cheap” public sensing by individuals

12. the deliverable: BusCount, a real‐/me community‐driven view on bus stop ac/vity at CMU

13. thank you
you can reach me at:
One sentence version of this (/tle?)
sbisker@gmail.com / twiIer: @sbisker
www.biskerrific.com
cheap plug:
www.cmu.edu/m/d
solomon bisker / buscount: a probe into ci/zen volunteerism and urban interac/on design
special topics in interac/ve art and computa/onal design / golan levin / carnegie mellon u