We: a robotic system to extend social impact of community gardens.

Joshi, Swapna; Randall, Natasha; Chiplunkar, Suraj; Wattimena, Theodora; Stavrianakis, Kostas

doi:10.1145/3173386.3177817

We: a robotic system to extend social impact of community gardens.

Joshi, Swapna; Randall, Natasha; Chiplunkar, Suraj; Wattimena, Theodora; Stavrianakis, Kostas

Authors

Swapna Joshi

Natasha Randall

Suraj Chiplunkar

Theodora Wattimena

Dr Kostas Stavrianakis k.stavrianakis@rgu.ac.uk
Research Fellow B

Abstract

The social, educational, economic and health benefits from community gardens often stay limited to the gardeners. 'We' is a community-oriented robotic system designed to extend such benefits to the public and community. It consists of 1. 'We-Sense,' garden sensors that encourage community participation, and 2. 'We-Grow,' a responsive installation that reflects the state of and allows to explore the garden and its social life. 'We' aims to provide awareness about the community gardens in public spaces, to increase public literacy about food and community gardening, provide out-of-class education, encourage participation in citizen science and increase community engagement.

Citation

JOSHI, S., RANDALL, N., CHIPLUNKAR, S., WATTIMENA, T. and STAVRIANAKIS, K. 2018. We: a robotic system to extend social impact of community gardens. In HRI '18: companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE (Association of Computing Machinery and Institute of Electrical Engineers) Human-robot interaction international conference (HRI '18), 5-8 March 2018, Chicago, USA. New York: ACM [online], pages 349-350. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173386.3177817

Presentation Conference Type	Conference Paper (published)
Conference Name	2018 ACM/IEEE (Association of Computing Machinery and Institute of Electrical Engineers) Human-robot interaction international conference (HRI '18)
Start Date	Mar 5, 2018
End Date	Mar 8, 2018
Acceptance Date	Dec 4, 2017
Online Publication Date	Mar 1, 2018
Publication Date	Mar 31, 2018
Deposit Date	Oct 15, 2021
Publicly Available Date	Nov 9, 2021
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Pages	349-350
Book Title	HRI '18: companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
ISBN	9781450356152
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1145/3173386.3177817
Keywords	Human-robot interaction; Community robots; Responsive and interactive systems; Public robotics; Community gardens
Public URL	https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1428051

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