Finding

Meaningand Metadata

in Children's 

Drawings

1) Empowerhack

assumptions, the 

tech, the reality

3) THE BIGGER PICTURE

2) DATA (FOR HUMANS)

drawmylife, the mvp

collaboration, hdx & HXL

 

EMPOWERHACK

DRAW MY LIFE,

the MVP

a child's drawing

a question

"How can Terre Des Hommes use drawings collected from art therapy sessions in refugee camps to advocate for children's mental health support?"

a diverse discussion

developers

designers

health workers

humanitarian workers

students

parents

UX analysts

test analysts

ideas v more questions

  • search portal for campaigners
  • interactive image wall to raise awareness on social media
  • art exhibitions, fundraisers
  • unique dataset for psychological / statistical analysis
  • advocacy/lobbying?
  • who will use, grow & maintain this? do field workers have the capacity / environment / time?
  • how do we train content creators and users of the data?
  • sensitivity/privacy?
  • what data should we collect?
  • what data CAN we collect?
  • how do we build sustainably, with others in mind?
  • ...

the project(/s)

1) a SEARCH PORTAL of images and data that campaigners can access for lobbying

 

2) a BACKEND for field workers to upload images and data

 

3) An API to share this data with the humanitarian community (later)

I'll be talking

about these two!

facing walls (use post-its)

Camille, our rep from Terre Des Hommes helping us model and prioritise the data. The most important types weren't even on our sticky notes!

a mockup

DRAW MY LIFE - SEARCH PORTAL

highlighting

migration stages

clarifying usage of data / trust

simple

search UI

A RAILS APP

DRAW MY LIFE - BACKEND / API

portrait of a tech team

 

data (for humans)

assumptions,

the tech, the reality

learn. build. measure.

BUILDING "LEAN" IS THE WISE ACCEPTANCE THAT YOU DON'T TRULY KNOW YOUR USERS YET

humans using this

assumptions

  • Who is involved? Field workers.
  • They are in camps
  • They scan drawings or take pictures on their phones
  • They are busy, time-limited
  • They might not have great internet connection in camps
  • They might not have fast, modern machines in camps

assumed solution

"SIMPLE-TO-USE IMAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT WORKS OFFLINE AND ON MULTIPLE DEVICES WITH FAST, ASYNCHRONOUS, MULTI-IMAGE UPLOADING CAPABILITIES"

or a very long sentence

TECH STACK RABBIT HOLE

  • Universal JS app with all the modern bells and whistles vs simple Rails app?
  • Mobile web and/or React Native?
  • Sidekiq for parallel image uploading?
  • Offline?
  • Image editing/crop tools?
  • i18n / translations?
  • API standards; JSON-HAL?
  • ...

the reality

  • All this effort is based on assumptions we haven't proven yet
  • There aren't that many images we need to upload right now
  • This is experimental and we need to trial it with field workers sooner rather than later
  • Insight > Data and perfect tech practices at this stage. Iterate!

prioritising Ux and pilot in serbia

 

the bigger

picture

COLLABORATION,

HDX & HXL

introducing the hdx

an open platform for sharing data

introducing HXL

pronounced "hek-sil"

HXL is open source

you can get involved

drawmylife is open source

you can get involved

get involved

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