Map My Community

Map My Community is a research app designed to gather data on participants’ use of the built environment and their movement, feelings and experiences of it. Developed by researchers from the University of Birmingham, UK, the app has three features: Map my week, Capture that and Explore that space. It has been designed to be quick, easy and user friendly.

Map my week: Gathers data on your everyday life, movement and use of community space. Outdoor movements will be tracked for a one week period and at regular intervals you will be prompted to take part in short surveys to ask where you are, who you are with and how you got there. You can stop the app tracking your movements at any time and resume it later if you do not wish the app to map where you go.

Explore that space: If you are located in the case study, the app will detect if you have entered a pre-defined area and you will be prompted to answer a short survey.

Capture that: This enables you to share with researchers your emotional responses to specific features of the built environment. You are able to take photographs and comment on what you like and what you think needs improving.

Map My Community has been designed as a research app for the study of new urban developments in India. The researchers are based in India from January – September 2015 and are encouraging people to take part in the app based research.

If you do not live in a new urban development in India and would still like to use and take part in the app research, you also need to agree to the research consent statements prior to participation.

There are numerous statements which you need to understand and agree to prior to taking part, you will be asked for your consent on downloading the app.