This course satisfies the Design Technology requirment for Architecture majors at the University of Oregon.  New data collection and computation techniques provide the opportunity for open, experiential and systematic understanding of site. The use of handheld mobile technology and new inexpensive microprocessors and sensors provides opportunity to bring the power of information to the lowest user level without the influence of larger economic and political forces. These research methods have been published with the Journal of Urban Design, Journal of Urbanism and several book chapters and tested in professional urban design projects. In-situ urban sensing methods include the advanced cross-platform methods to record data on site. Methods taught in this class may include the use of survey software and associated interface design including GSP, photos, time and other data types. Careful attention will be made coding information into binary 0/1, 1 to 5, numerical, word match and other qualitative to quantitative transformation.Other workflow platforms may include mobile app software ODK, Excel formulation, mobile sensor applications and physical robotic development of custom Arduino microprocessor and custom sensor devices. Software syntax and robotic assembly may be included to create custom sensors to measure targeted urban characteristics. These urban robotic techniques will test theories from the urban design seminar course and provide new data for analysis and design in the media for design development course.