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Dashboards tell you what’s happening. Customers tell you why, if you bother to show up and watch. Spoiler: the slides never see it coming.
#ProductManagement #FieldResearch #UserInsights

http://branici.ro/2025/08/10/surveys-tell-you-stories-the-field-tells-you-the-truth/

‘The fire has reached the stream. The green corridor is now black’

Less than an hour after we concluded our final visit to the location of the planned Meta hyperscale data centre in Gamonal/Talavera de la Reina, a large bush fire ripped through the landscape.

The night before, a local resident had guided us through the landscape to share his own fears and hopes for this territory. He pointed out how Meta had promised to maintain a ‘green corridor’ between the planned megainfrastructure and the neighbouring industrial estate to soften the destructive impact of the project. Now, he was alerting us via Whatsapp about the arrival of a large fire.

Bush fires are not unusual on this dry land. The last large fire erupted almost exactly one year ago and burned through most of the Southern half of the terrain.

Photo 1: News of the fire spreading via one of Meta’s flagship products
Photo 2: The extent of the fire as seen from above (images via Terrascope and INFOCAM)
Photo 3: Traces of last year’s fire captured during our scoping visit in September 2024
Photo 4: Remnants of last year’s fire in the ‘green corridor’
Photo 5: One of the last photographs of the ‘green corridor’ before the fire

Made possible by the Creative Industries Fund NL

#fieldresearch #datacenter #bushfire #publishing #dryclouds

Screenshot from a Whatsapp conversation. One video and one photo was shared with the receiver, both depicting spoke and burnt areas on dried grassland

Two part image. The top half shows two side by side satellite images, one depicting the area before and one after the fire. The burnt area is clearly visible as a black spot in the yellow/beige landscape. The bottom half shows an aerial image of the same landscape, taken from a helicopter shortly after the fire was contained. A large area was burnt, cutting across the entire territory of the planned data centre

Burnt soil with a burnt animal skull, stone and burnt bramble twig

June was dominated by field research in GP practices with Alison, joined at times by Nick, Ben, and Mohit.

Also featured were patient observations, reading up on triaging approaches, and a delicious Victoria sponge.

https://medium.com/@SarahRose-UR/june-2025-month-note-bea16971b29a

#UserResearch #HealthcareLeadership #FieldResearch #PrimaryCare #NHS

A slice of Victoria sponge cake on a plate. In the background are hand drawn notes on boxes.

Overpowered by the sun

We intended to produce a series of cyanotype photographs as a low-tech method to document the more-than-human elements shaping the landscape, so we brought a printing kit with us from the Netherlands. As relative beginners with this technique, we diligently followed the instructions provided by the Dutch maker of the kit.

When developing our initial print run, all rinsed papers turned almost solid blue. Almost all of the intricate shapes and textures from the materials we had placed on the photosensitive paper had vanished. The power of the midday sun had fully exposed the entire paper.

Driven by an urge to find out what could have caused this failure, we gave it another try on the following day. This time, the prints turned out perfectly! The secret? Reducing the exposure time to less than 30% of the length indicated in the instructions. The Spanish sun was simply too powerful for Dutch standards.

In places where (natural) clouds are rare and the sun intensity is exceptionally high, mega computing infrastructures are faced with conflicting conditions. While an abundance of sunshine brings with it a significant potential for renewable energy generation through solar or wind power, it also produces tremendous heat and drought, which can make a territory unliveable over time; especially if the already scarce water resources are further exploited to provide vital cooling for overheated computer chips.

Do you ever think of the sun when you are working in the Cloud?

Made possible by the Creative Industries Fund NL

#cyanotype #sunprinting #solarenergy #fieldresearch #creativeresearch #datacenter #snakeoil

Plants and other biological materials are placed on top of treated paper sheets placed in the hot midday sun. Around the papers, there is sand and very dry grass

Two cyanotype prints being washed in small plastic trays on a kitchen counter. Where objects have been placed on the paper, their shadows have left white marks. The remaining paper has turned blue

House entrance surrounded by some small plant pots. On the left hand side, there is a large parasol shielding the larger group of plants from the harsh sunlight

It was great to present my work on fatalism and climate action in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, in a session on "Emotions in the transition to a no-carbon society" at the Global Tipping Points conference @uniexeter.

I talked about high levels of fatalism - beliefs that the future is predetermined and that human agency is pontless - in Bougainville, how this already reduces climate action, and wonder how this could be a barrier to harnessing potential positive tipping points in populations truly left behind.

Here are my slides 👉https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NIEhEWA2IC-4V2FC2ybCLFBmnbcO0ta4p-nhiiTOaIc/edit?usp=sharing

I also learned from @laurafoggrogers the importance of triggering positive emotions to fully engage the population at large, while Genevieve Guenther @doctorvive proposes a very interesting paradigm combining fear, outrage and desire, drawn from her book "The language of climate politics". I think everyone agrees that one size-fits-all type of communication is not optimal and that tailoring the message to the recipient is very important.

#DrJohnRowlatt discussed about how to best engage the UK population, and elderly people in particular, to switch to low-carbon heating systems. @larasningrum_dianty talked about the potential for narratives of hope in low-income countries and in general.

I look forward to continuing this discussion. 🙏 co-panelists & attendants.

#ClimateChange #ClimateAdaptation #Fatalism #Bougainville #PapuaNewGuinea #Melanesia #Research #FieldResearch

Me presenting at the Global Tipping Points conference

Me with other speakers at the conference

The arrival of spring doesn't just mean a return to intensive measurement period for most of our field experiments. After some years already working with its prototype, the new Literal® device arrived and is now running on our research station.

#cropphenotyping #wheat #fieldresearch #agriculturalsciences

Literal device tested on ETH field research station, representing a complementary device to FIP2-sensor head usually used, in particular for field experiment running outside from the field area not covered by the FIP facilities.

[ARCHIVES 2021]
[journal de terrain, semaine 10, Longwy] Une longue journée.
  Je déjeune à l’hôtel et part à mon rendez vous à Longwy-bas. Mon sac est lourd. Manque de chance, une fois arrivée le rendez vous est décalé à une prochaine fois. Je me retrouve bloquée avec mon sac trop lourd pour moi après 2 heures à marcher et tourner en rond et un temps plus qu’incertain. Je me réfugie à la mairie, Serge et Éric m’accueillent avec plaisir. J’avance un peu sur le projet puis je laisse une bonne partie de mes affaires pour aller faire des photos au golf (là où réside le haut fourneau).  En chemin je me laisse happer par le « sentier de senelle », nom d’une des 4 usines de sidérurgie. Mêlant bruit de voiture, forêt et oiseau, je prend du son tout en avançant sur le chemin.  Arrivé au haut fourneau, je remarque que quelque chose dans mon appareil déconne. Tout est sombre, comme si un filtre polarisant était activé. J’étais déjà à une bonne heure de marche de la mairie. Qu’à cela ne tienne, j’essaie tant bien que mal de faire des photographies avec l’histogramme. Merci à Ivan Mathie , Baptiste Cozzupoli et Clément Martin pour vos conseils. Je reste sur place 3 heures à découvrir de nouveaux endroits et vestiges incroyables de cette usine. De retour, je reprends mes affaires et me dirige vers le bus. En voulant prendre mon ticket, l’application ne fonctionne plus pour les cartes solidaires et bien sûr, les tarifs réduits ne sont pas donnés dans le car. Le chauffeur est super, comprend ma situation et m’attend le temps de prendre le billet en gare.  Malgré cette journée qui a mise mes nerfs à rude épreuve, je reste sous le charme de ces vestiges cachés du passé.
~~~🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧~~~
[field note, Longwy, week 10]. A long day

#socialsciences #DocumentaryPhotography #PhotographieDocumentaire #journaldeterrain #longwyvivra #fieldwork #FieldResearch #visualanthropology #photography #landscape #usine #paysage

Partie 2/4, de l'herbe recouverts de boules jaunes qui ressemblent à des fleurs de pissenlits. Ce sont des balles de Golf.

Gros plan sur un bloc de béton, en arrière plan le haut fourneau couché sur le terrain de golf

Détails du chemin Senelle, vestiges de la sidérurgie enfouie sous la terre, seuls quelques éléments métalliques en ressortent

No city should be a lab for someone else’s theory. Cities thrive when shaped by those who inhabit them, not just by out-of-touch planners. The same applies to mobility.

HT mstdn @UrbanismNow

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/urbanism-from-asia-beyondthe-story-behind-cities-for-cities-yxwic/

#Asia #cityplanning #urbandesign #urbanism #urbanplanner #urbanplanning #inclusiveplanning #SDG11 #DecolonizeUrbanism #FieldResearch #InclusiveResearch #ParticipatoryResearch #TrufiAssociation

Congrats to Marc Hasselwander, a friend and collaborator of Trufi making an impact in mobility research. His study on Mobility as a Service (MaaS) in Manila is one of the most cited papers in Transportation Research Part A.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0965856421003116

#MaaS #Manila #Philippines #FieldResearch #MobilityAsAService #ParticipatoryResearch #research #TrufiAssociation

Screenshot of the "Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice" journal homepage, featuring a list of research articles. The highlighted section shows the latest published articles, including Marc Hasselwander's study titled "Towards sustainable transport in developing countries: Preliminary findings on the demand for mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) in Metro Manila," which is noted as one of the most cited papers

Researchers: A PhD project on public ownership and transport decarbonization needs real-world input. Trufi Association has the experience to help ground this research.

Xitter @UniofGreenwich

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#SDG11 #FieldResearch #GlobalSouthTransportMapping #InclusiveResearch #informaltransport #populartransport #ParticipatoryResearch #publictransit #publictransport #research #TrufiAssociation

🌍 Preserving Languages – Protecting Cultures 🗣️
Researchers from the #UniCologne are exploring the most remote areas of the world to document endangered languages. This work aims to preserve the cultural heritage and collective knowledge of language communities. Every word saved is a piece of identity and history. 📜
Discover more ➡️ https://uni.koeln/XSNWV

#UniKöln #UniCologne #Linguistics #CulturalHeritage #LanguageDiversity #LanguagePreservation #Research #FieldResearch

In Kenya, tracking tech boosted driver-owner trust and cut risky driving. At Trufi, we see potential for similar tools to enhance safety and trust in transit systems.

https://news.ucsc.edu/2024/10/worker-monitoring-technology-kenya-transit-systems.html

#informaltransport #populartransport #Africa #Kenya #Nairobi #bus #FieldResearch #InclusiveResearch #mobileapp #ParticipatoryResearch #research #TransportationJustice #TrufiAssociation

It's somewhat rare to discuss autonomous vehicles (AVs) in the global South context. A PhD candidate in computer science is studying how AVs could enhance mobility for female passengers

https://buff.ly/4f2hd5W

#informaltransport #populartransport #Asia #Bangladesh #FieldResearch #gender #InclusiveResearch #innovation #ParticipatoryResearch #publictransit #research #TrufiAssociation #AVs #AutonomousVehicles

For urban planning, environmental monitoring, and disaster response, Trufi harnesses VGI to inform and power your project with accurate, community-driven data. Contact us today!

https://www.trufi-association.org/services/volunteered-geographic-information-vgi/

#opendata #FieldResearch #InclusiveResearch #mapping #GIS #OpenStreetMap #ParticipatoryResearch #research #VGI #citizenscience #disasterresponse #tourism #environmentalmonitoring #TrufiAssociation

This is what you get when you combine data, research, sustainability , and a transportation justice mindset: New viable bus routes a city that thought it had already found all the right routes:

https://www.theigc.org/publications/creating-informal-transport-route-implications-mobility-gender-and-planning-processes

#informaltransport #populartransport #publictransport #sustainabletransport #transportation #Africa #Uganda #Kampala #BehavioralStudies #bestroute #bus #FieldResearch #InclusiveResearch #research #TransportationJustice #TrufiAssociation

Leverage Trufi user-centric surveys and inclusive transport research for impactful insights. Let's work together—contact us today!

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#informaltransport #populartransport #opendata #sustainabletransport #transportation #ActiveTransport #FieldResearch #InclusiveResearch #ParticipatoryResearch #research #VGI #TrufiAssociation

#FieldResearch in post-pandemic #China: Join Philipp C. D. Immel ’s talk & learn about the transformations in research dynamics & strategies to navigate challenges in China at the #GIGAChinaSeries.

🗓️ Monday, 22 July 📍At the #GIGA in Hamburg & online

➡️ Please register here: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/giga-china-series?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Trufi Transport Research Services leads in user-centric surveys and mapping global South transport networks. With expertise in apps, chatbots, and inclusive methodologies.

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#Accessibility #BehavioralStudies #FieldResearch #GlobalSouthTransportMapping #GTFS #InclusiveResearch #informaltransport #LongitudinalStudies #PilotTestingEvaluation #RouteStressAnalysis