Ergo

Project

Urban Atmospheres is a new research effort into Participatory Urbanism which explores a people centric view of measuring, sharing, and discussing our environment and air quality using mobile devices such as your personal mobile phone with various air quality sensors attached. As the project begins to build hardware and tools to empower this new usage model, it also presents a series of important complementary tools and resources. In this case, they designed Ergo, a simple SMS system that allows anyone with a mobile phone to quickly and easily explore, query, and learn about their air quality on-the-go with their mobile phone.