PureNav: A Personalized Navigation Service for Environmental Justice Communities Impacted by Planned Disruptions

Omar Hammad, Md Rezwanur Rahman, Nicholas Clements, Shivakant Mishra, Shelly Miller, Esther Sullivan

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Abstract

Planned disruptions such as highway constructions are commonplace nowadays and the communities living near these disruptions generally tend to be environmental justice communities - -low socio-economic status with disproportionately high and adverse human health and environmental effects. A major concern is that such activities negatively impact people's well-being by disrupting their daily commutes via frequent road closures and increased dust & air pollution. This paper addresses this concern by developing a personalized navigation service called PureNav to mitigate the negative impacts of disruptions in daily commutes on people's well-being. PureNav has been designed using active engagement with four environmental justice communities affected by major highway construction. It has been deployed in the real world among the members of the four communities, and a detailed analysis of the data collected from this deployment as well as surveys show that PureNav is potentially useful in improving people's wellbeing. The paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of PureNav, and offers suggestions for further improving its efficacy.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2023
EditorsB. Aditya Prakash, Dong Wang, Tim Weninger
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages56-63
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9798400704093
DOIs
StatePublished - 6 Nov 2023
Event15th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2023 - Kusadasi, Turkey
Duration: 6 Nov 20239 Nov 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2023

Conference

Conference15th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2023
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityKusadasi
Period6/11/239/11/23

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Keywords

  • disruptions in daily commutes
  • environmental justice communities
  • intervention
  • mobile app
  • navigation
  • personalization
  • smartphone
  • wellbeing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
  • Social Psychology
  • Communication

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