Abstract
We consider community policing on the road with pervasive recording technologies such as dashcams and smartphones where citizens are actively volunteering to capture and report various threats to traffic safety to the police via mobile apps. This kind of novel community policing has recently gained significant popularity in Korea and India. In this work, we identify people's general attitude and concerns toward community policing on the road through an online survey. We then address the major concerns by building a mobile app that supports easy event capture/access, context tagging, and privacy preservation. Our two-week user study (n = 23) showed Roadwatch effectively supported community policing activities on the road. Further, we found that the critical factors for reporting are personal involvement and seriousness of risks, and participants were mainly motivated by their contribution to traffic safety. Finally, we discuss several practical design implications to facilitate community policing on the road.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
Subtitle of host publication | Explore, Innovate, Inspire |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
Pages | 3538-3550 |
Number of pages | 13 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450346559 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2 May 2017 |
Event | 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017 - Denver, United States Duration: 6 May 2017 → 11 May 2017 |
Publication series
Name | Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings |
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Volume | 2017-May |
Conference
Conference | 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Denver |
Period | 6/05/17 → 11/05/17 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors thank Kartik Sawhney, Jare Fagbemi, Michael Kim, Maxine Fonua, Corey Garff, Matthew Kim and Jay Patel for their efforts on this project. Additional thanks to Stu Card, Aniket Kittur, Tom Malone, Pamela Hinds, Sharad Goel, Clark Barrett, and Anita Woolley for feedback on early drafts. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (award IIS-1351131), Accenture Technology Labs, Microsoft FUSE Labs, the Stanford Cyber Initiative, the Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, and a Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship.
Keywords
- Community policing
- Mobile
- Neighborhood watch
- Privacy
- Traffic