Public transport is an area in which a number of key stakeholders overlap – including state and federal governments, particular government bodies, private entities, and the wider public. When there’s a range of interested parties, it can make it difficult to have a clear and decisive process in place for planning and executing a project…. Read more
Monthly Archives: February 2014
“What the Bus” and Why Should I Bother? Designing For User Participation in a Public Transport Information System
In this article, we described the design and evaluation of a mobile application to show crowd-sourced bus arrival times and other information about buses. We wanted to use the power of passengers to collect and share data on the bus network at a time when there was no real time data about bus arrival times… Read more
Infostructures – Embedding Media Facades in Public Transport
This article, co-authored by Encircle members M. Hank Haeusler and Martin Tomitsch, describes two design studies that were completed in preparation of the ARC grant application. It is included in our project publications, since it outlines some of the ideas that form the foundation of the grant proposal. The article investigated the idea of using… Read more
Four Future Visions for Urban Transport Environments
Last year I taught an advanced interaction design class, in which students were tasked with improving urban landscapes through the use of digital technologies. Four teams, after their initial analysis of urban everyday scenarios, chose to work on transport environments. This post considers the projects the students produced, showcasing a variety of future solutions to… Read more