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
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Finding Meaning and Metadata in Children's Drawings
Finding Meaning and Metadata in Children's Drawings
By Kriselda Rabino
Finding Meaning and Metadata in Children's Drawings
Away Day
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