System ID:
68
Title:
Crosswise: Sharing Goals, Sharing Time
Author:
Tor de Vries
Author 2:
Author 3:
Degree:
MFA
Year:
2005
Pages:
55
University:
Parsons School of Design
Supervisor:
David Kanter
Semail:
Supervisor 2:
Michael Gurstein (NJIT)
Language:
English
Dept:
Design & Technology
Copyright:
author
Lang_author:
English
Url:
Email:
thesis@tordevries.com
Keywords:
Community informatics, information visualization, data analysis, cooperative planning, sociology, event calendars
Abstract:
Frequently, community organizations cannot or do not study what other local organizations are doing, which leads to event conflicts, redundancy, and missed opportunities. This “information obscurity” creates less than optimal social capital, even between organizations with mutual objectives. Today’s online event calendars are libraries of information rather than planning assistants for community leaders. The Crosswise system approaches this issue by adding information visualization and analysis to a web-based event calendar, exploring a new direction for community informatics. For leaders and planners, events are analyzed to highlight similarities, possible synergy, and opportunity for new events. This project documents the design and production of Crosswise, its initial use by Mission Columbia (a faith-based group of community leaders in Hudson, New York), and development of “what if” scenarios derived from Crosswise-based analysis of past event data.
Last update:
Mar 11 2005
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