A Study of Urban Heat: Understanding the Challenges and Opportunities for Addressing Wicked ...
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Frames urban heat as a wicked problem and claims HCI can help by building systems to share hybrid data and foster cross-stakeholder discourse. Research uses documentary filmmaking plus ethnographic interviews with nine Sydney stakeholders, combines remote sensing, census and traffic datasets, handheld weather stations and street-mounted temperature sensors. Finds cities can be ~5°C hotter than suburbs and grassroots vegetation reports local drops up to ~10°C. Builds a filmed corpus and coded transcripts, shows no systematic data‑sharing and recommends knowledge systems for hybrid data and place-based interactive forums.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to urban heat
- 1:53Research methods and participants
- 5:44Understanding urban heat island
- 7:52Technology and data flow
- 10:24Adaptation and mitigation strategies
- 12:50Systemic solutions and equity
- 13:55HCI implications and future tools
- 16:33Q&A session
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