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!