Here you can watch my elevator pitch for my app for reporting light pollution, with a transcript below.
Have you ever been on holiday and there is a beautiful landscape, but it is polluted by a lot of garbage lying around and you feel really sad and powerless because there is nothing you can do about it? Well, that is how I feel about the night sky when I look at it and it is all orange.
This happens due to light pollution. Many people do not know that light pollution is harmful to the ecosystem, to a lot of animals and to our health. They also do not know what to do about it.
I believe that the first step is reporting it. I plan to design an app where this can be done in an easy way, so that researchers and authorities can access data.
I plan to make it fun by combining education and some fun facts with challenges to encourage its usage.
I feel like I need to do something about light pollution because it makes me angry and I think that through interaction design I can engage more people and raise more awareness.
