Kill Time, Make History: Building Inspector and other HCI Case Studies from NYPL Labs. This deck does not include the videos or animated GIFs presented.
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mauricio giraldo arteaga@mgiraldonypl labskill time. make history.MITH digital dialogues, march, 2015
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hola
my name is mauricio
NYPL Labs
we’ve been at it for 3+ years
buildinginspector.nypl.org
year
street namesyear
use typestreet namesyear
use typestreet namesnameyear
materialuse typestreet namesnameyear
materialuse typestreet namesnameclassyear
materialuse typestreet namesaddressnameclassyear
materialuse typestreet namesaddressfloorsnameclassyear
materialuse typestreet namesaddressfloorsnameclassyearskylights
materialuse typestreet namesaddressfloorsnameclassyearskylightsbackyards
materialuse typestreet namesaddressfloorsnameclassgeo locationyearskylightsbackyards
footprintmaterialuse typestreet namesaddressfloorsnameclassgeo locationyearskylightsbackyards
extract all the data
why?
citysdk.waag.org/buildings
NYU Stern / Imaginaria3D
maps.google.com
step 1: georectifyor: make it match Open Street Map
*simulation. actual process requires many maths.
steps 2+: digitizeor: draw the whole map again
maps.nypl.org/warper
⏳this will take forever~3 years for just two atlases of Manhattan
divide
divide↓
divide↓automate**what can be reasonably worth automating
divide↓automate*↓*what can be reasonably worth automating
divide↓automate*↓crowdsource*what can be reasonably worth automating
…and conquer!
automate footprint extractionit is the most labor-intensive task
github.com/NYPL/map-vectorizer
“is the output any good?”
a building is:completely enclosed by black linesdashed lines are not wallsnot paper-colored
…so we did a prototype
–@mikeindustries“a prototype is worth a thousand meetings”
pretty straightforward, right?
lots of edge cases
we could just do a tutorial
tutorials are hardand people rarely bother to follow them
juicybeast.com/2014/10/designing-a-playable-ui-that-secretly-teaches-how-to-play/
…but tutorials are hardand don’t even get me started with “cross-browser”
pretty neat!
❌but it doesn’t work on mobiledid i mention tutorials are hard?
…it could be worse
A MONTH later…
we ♥ our contributors~27% were mobile visits
check
checkYES
checkYESaddress color
checkYES FIXaddress color
checkYES FIXaddress color fix
checkYES FIXaddress color fix*footprints marked as “NO” go to building heaven
but first, a revamp
colors
addresses
fixing footprints
remember the tutorials?
people skip the tutorials anyway…
so, if you can’t do something like this:
…have a plan b
many eyes per task≥75% agreement among three or more inspectors
24%17%28%31%Check Fix Color Addresspageviews per task
~32% mobile visits 1.1 million inspections so far
stereo.nypl.org
“wouldn’t it be cool if…?”
distill the task to its critical components
add some polish…a.k.a. designing
thank you!images from: NYPL - Wikimedia Commons - Flickr user wallyg - Giphymauricio giraldo arteaga@mgiraldonypl labs