Heat Resilience Sensor Network and Interactive Systems
Description
The Heat Resilience VIP team focuses on designing and sustaining socio-technical systems that support community resilience to extreme heat.
Students work across hardware, data infrastructure, and interactive design to transform urban climate data into meaningful, actionable tools. The team engages with the full pipeline, including deploying and maintaining sensors, developing backend systems for data streaming and dashboards, and designing front-end interactive systems such as visualizations, and participatory tools for community engagement.
The team’s overarching aim is to support communities in becoming more resilient to extreme heat by developing socio-technical systems, interactive tools, and evidence-based strategies that connect data to action.
Goals and Learning Outcomes
- Understand the role of environmental sensor networks in urban heat resilience.
- Contribute to the design, maintenance, or analysis of in-situ sensing systems.
- Translate environmental data into visual or interactive tools for diverse stakeholders.
- Apply socio-technical and participatory design methods to dashboard evaluation.
- Collaborate effectively in a multidisciplinary, project-based team focused on climate resilience.
- Propose and prototype design improvements informed by stakeholder feedback (Sub teams)
Majors and Schools Sought
- Environmental Science
- School of Public Health
- Design
- Informatics
- Engineering
Desired Skills and Interests
- Hardware prototyping and sensor maintenance
- Data visualization
- Programming (Python, JavaScript, SQL)
- UX/UI design
- AR/VR design and development
- Participatory design and community engagement
- Policy and social science analysis