EcoTrack
Yuyao Lin, Jiayi Liang, Mengyan Guo, Bingbing Hong
Bridging Human and Wildlife Communities.
12/2024



How can smart systems foster everyday connections between humans and wildlife?


EcoTrack is a smart system for homes, capturing animal activities
for educational fun, community connection, and ecological research.





AI-powered Device
Data Visualization Platform





Education & Fun





 
                                                   



                     
With all the efforts, we envisioned a community like Putney, filled with interconnected gardens. 

EcoTrack taps into this potential by mapping wildlife activities and engaging residents in conservation

to create a stronger ecological network.














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Smart systems often deepen human isolation from ecological contexts. To foster connection, they must avoid abstracting wildlife into data or spectacle. The real question is how to design interactions that cultivate subtle attunement to more-than-human rhythms—inviting humans to dwell with, rather than merely observe, the life around them.