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Content of the lecture

This course encourages collaborative research on cycling by collecting and exploring data and translating it into real-world actions. The aim is to enable citizens to better understand local bikeability through experience and to promote cycling as part of everyday life.

To design meaningful user studies, the course is organized as a series of interactive lectures combined with intensive workshops and brainstorming sessions. Students will gain hands-on experience with mobile bicycle sensors and sensor data, as well as learn how to design and implement data-driven citizen campaigns that support activity, safety, and sustainability.

As part of the course, students will use mobile bike sensors for two weeks to explore the bikeability of Münster. The collected data will form the basis for developing campaign ideas that promote cycling and improve the local cycling experience.

The first two weeks are dedicated to idea generation and formulating campaign actions through seminars and intensive brainstorming sessions. Seminars provide the necessary technical and theoretical background, including key definitions, working with sensors and data, and designing user studies. Students will also be introduced to the required tools, including the sensors. The outcome of this phase will be a detailed campaign plan.

In the second phase, students will actively advertise and run their campaigns.

The final evaluation will be based on active participation, a group presentation, and an individual report (3–5 pages).

Additional Information:

• The number of participants is limited to 25.
• The course is open to students from diverse scientific backgrounds.
• Sessions will be held as block events and taught in English.
• All meetings will take place in person. No prior technical knowledge is required.

 

Block Schedule:

Room 309 (Geo1):

• Mon. 23. Feb., 10:00 – 14:00: Introduction of the course, definitions and terms, introduction and assignment of the tools/hardware
• Di. 24. Feb. 10:00 – 17:00: Seminar (cycling data and bikeability), brainstorming sessions, group formation
• Mi. 25. Feb. 10:00 – 17:00: *independent work, data collection
• Do. 26. Feb. 10:00 – 17:00: Seminar (planning and organising user studies), presentation and discussion of initial ideas
• Fr. 27. Feb. 10:00 – 17:00: Brainstorming sessions, presentation of findings

Room 255 (Geo1):

• Mo. 02. Mar. 10:00 – 17:00: Full day workshop (Planning the campaign)
• Di. 03. Mar. 10:00 – 17:00: Full day workshop (Planning the campaign, presenting the plan)
• Mi. 04.Mar. 10:00-17:00: *Independent work (Advertising the campaign)
• Do. 05. Mar. 10:00 – 17:00: Block Day for active work
• Fri. 06. Mar. 10:00 – 17:00: Block Day for finalizing the actions towards planning, trouble shooting

 

• In the period from 09-20 March there will be occasional appointments
• Campaigns should be conducted, and reports should be submitted by the 27^th of March

 

Optional readings:

• Castañon, U. N., & Ribeiro, P. J. (2021). Bikeability and emerging phenomena in cycling: Exploratory analysis and review. Sustainability, 13(4), 2394.
• Rudy/Rose, Jeff/Standridge, Sarah H./Pruitt, Courtney L. (2020): „Experiences of urban cy-cling: Emotional geographies of people and place”, in: Leisure Studies 40 (1), S. 82-95.Jungnickel, Katrina/Aldred, Rachel (2014): „Cycling’s sensory strategies: How cyclists mediate their ex-posure to the urban environment”, in: Mobilities 9 (2), S. 238-255.
• Popan, Cosmin (2020): „Beyond utilitarian mobilities: Cycling senses and the subversion of the carsystem”, in: Applied Mobilities 5 (3), S. 289-305.
• Gan, Z., Yang, M., Zeng, Q., & Timmermans, H. J. (2021). Associations between built environment, perceived walkability/bikeability and metro transfer patterns. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 153, 171-187.

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