Over the course of that Summer working directly with community members and better understanding how data impacted their work, I realized a glaring misalignment between how the data was being collected and how community members wanted to benefit  from the data.

Addressing this problem is where I started in Fall of 2024 when I returned to UrbanHeatATL as a Design Researcher, seeking to answer the question...


How might we create a custom heat data collection 
application designed for the needs of citizen scientists?