Clean Air Smartphone App

[HRBennett]

What problem are you trying to solve?

CLEAN AIR Force of Central Texas in Partnership with the City of Austin and Travis County want to create a smartphone app to educate and engage the public on the topic of air quality. The app will provide air-related information including air quality index, pollen, and/or weather, as well as tips to manage your health and activities in various air quality conditions and suggestions for reducing air pollution.

Who will benefit (directly and indirectly) from your project?

Everyone! Clean air is an issue that affects us all, but especially children (0-18), older adults (65+), other adults (18-64) with lung diseases, and people who are active outdoors, including outdoor workers. More than 750,000 Central Texans fall into this group!

What other resources/tools are currently serving the same need? How does your project set itself apart?

Various other smartphone apps display this information (AccuWeather, The Weather Channel, Wunderground), but don't offer tips to manage health or suggestions to reduce air pollution. Additionally, no other apps focus on the Central Texas region specifically.

Where can we find any research/data available/articles?

Air Quality: airnow.gov cleanairforce.org epa.gov tceq.texas.gov

Pollen: aaaai.org

Weather: noaa.gov weather.gov

What help do you need now?

We're looking for front-end, back-end, and full-stack developers!

What are the next steps (validation, research, coding, design)?

We are refining the visual and interaction design and preparing for usability testing. We are ready to start back-end development and plan to be ready to start front-end development by the September Open Austin meeting.

How can we contact you outside of Github(list social media or places you're present)?

Sarah Holland - Director, CLEAN AIR Force of Central Texas sarah@cleanairforce.org

Heather Bennett - UX Researcher & Designer heather.r.bennett@gmail.com

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[VictoriaODell]

Thanks for submitting, @HRBennett ! See you later today.

[HRBennett]

September Update:

For the last month we have been recruiting front-end, back-end, and full-stack developers. We have gathered a small team that is ready to begin app development. That being said, we are still open to adding developers, so if you're interested in creating an iPhone app to educate and engage the public on the topic of air quality, please contact me to join!

[nicholasl]

City council last night bought an air monitor. It would be neat if we could get access to all of them and a map of their positions.

[HRBennett]

Thanks for sharing that idea! I don't think that's within the scope of our Clean Air App MVP, but we've already had talks about adding a map feature to the next version. We'll definitely consider mapping local air monitors!

[ehalekote]

Is this project still being developed at all?