Airey is a product designed to give you real-time safe open space guidance during pandemic period.
Team: Jiabin Wei & Jade Wu
Responsibility: UI design, data collection with python and prototype coding with Javascript.
Professor: Elizabeth Christoforetti, César A. Hidalgo
Airey provides intuitive maps to illustrate the safety levels of neighborhoods in the New York City and helps you to find safe open spaces to take a break during the pandemic period.
We will walk you through the design of Airey with our three personae.
First comes Sam, Sam likes jogging every morning before going to work. he wants to find a jogging place near his home within 10 minutes’ walking or cycling. It should be very safe and has a lot of green. He opens the app, the front page will inform him the overall safety score in the neighborhood. Then he zooms into the network-based map. Sam wants to find a close open space, so he adjusts the walking time range up to 15 minutes. More points are connected to his location. Then he raises the lower bound of the safety score to only select the safest places. Finally, he uses type filter to uncheck the place type he doesn’t like. Luckily, Sam gets one suitable open space.
Let’s move to Jane. Jane wants to have a safe picnic with her friends, so her priority concerning is that place should be large enough to have grassland but not too many people. Let’s see how she will find the place. So she first expands the searching range of the space area to get larger open spaces. it is not a problem for her to drive maybe one hour or so she increases the traveling time range. She further filters out the small open spaces, as you can see the small circles are disconnected. And deselect some unrelated space types and remove the space with high visitor density. Then She gets some recommended results. And this one the elbs pond park might be the perfect one for a picnic.
Last but not least, let’ help Ellen. Ellen is new to New York City and doesn’t have a lot of friends so she wants to move out of her daily life area and explore some new open places where she could practice social distancing and at the same time make some friends. So here, she decides to take public transportation to explore city and set the range from 15 to 40 minutes and adjust the area range to get more spaces. she remove spaces with low visitor density because she prefers places with activities going on. Now she has several options, then she double click the one of the options and a live chatting room hovering pops out, where she can see others’ reviews and photos, and share her thought and photos. So, in this way, Ellen is not only building connections with physical places but also with people.
With Airey, w encourage safe social encounters and human connections and hope to reduce socio-economic isolations during the pandemic.
