Communications of the ACM
24 Prototype Fund Winners Focus on Human-Centered Design
The Knight Foundation is supporting 24 early-stage media projects through its Prototype Fund, which provides small projects with grants of $35,000. The competition offers an opportunity for the foundation to support efforts to accelerate innovation in journalism for those focused on human-centered design; many of the projects also involved health data.
One winner, Keepr, built an open source data-mining tool that enables journalists to track breaking news stories and easily find quality news sources. Another, !nstant, designed a mobile app for verifying and providing context to breaking news on social media. Vizzuality developed an open source tool that can quickly turn content into interactive stories for online publication, and Zago built a mobile app that provides secure data-sharing between a reporter and the newsroom. Meanwhile, Global Sensor Web helps scientists and citizens collaborate and better monitor their environment through an online platform for aggregating geo-tagged data sets from public data sources and the onboard sensors of mobile phones. Smart Chicago Collaborative is using Twitter to identify potential cases of food poisoning in Chicago and encouraging individuals to report incidents of food poisoning.
Other winners include a system for reporting noise pollution from the University of Missouri, and a kid-friendly system for measuring air quality from Habitat Map.
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