Piloting the use of the Urban-i Box for future ActEarly interventions
The URBAN-i Box is intended to be used to measure air quality, noise, spatial congestion and risk taking in local neighbourhoods. It was developed to capture the whole scene around the carrier and can analyse multiple components, compare it to past events, and calculate the most likely contributing factors to risk and how to avoid them in the future. For these purposes, it is very much possible for researchers to use the URBAN-i Box across various ActEarly initiatives. We piloted the use of the URBAN-i within a primary school setting in Tower Hamlets, East London, and with a group of pre-teens and adolescents within a Community Centre and greenspace setting in Bradford, West Yorkshire. We worked together with the young people involved to evaluate the use of the URBAN-i Box as an objective measure of the playground environment in their school or local park setting. We also explored ethical considerations like obtaining consent, control over the data collected and implications of its use, as well as issues for the adults working with the children and using technology in open spaces.
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