Experiences from the Urban Computing Impact on Urban Culture

Christopoulou, Eleni; Ringas, Dimitrios; Stefanidakis, Michalis

doi:10.1109/pci.2012.53

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“…We succeeded a large-scale deployment of CLIO both regarding the evaluation period and the number of users. The experience we gathered gave us insight in our research issues relevant to the impact of urban computing on place, community and infrastructure [6], [24]. Findings revealed that CLIO as an urban computing application succeeded in attracting people to share and interact with the collective city memory and the significant lessons learned on its effect on community follow.…”

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Collective city memory

Ringas

Christopoulou

2013

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Communities and Technologies

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In this paper we present field experience and user evaluation results from a long-term real world deployment of a novel urban computing application. Our goal has been to study the effect of applying urban computing to its three constituents: place, community and infrastructure. A suitable application for this, should enable us to evaluate how a city is altered, how the perception of people about the city changes, whether the communication among people is encouraged and what is the benefit from a city's infrastructure. We deployed CLIO, an urban computing application that allows forming and interacting with the collective city memory, in two different cities, in Greece and Finland. We carried out in-the-field user trials and interviews, and collected detailed logs for more than two months, evaluating both the suitability of our application for our purpose and the effect of this urban computing application to the city and its people. Our findings shed light on how a city and the perception of people about it change, reveal the extend to which an urban computing system can affect a community and evaluate the role of public infrastructure in those transformations.

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“…CLIO, its architecture appears on Figure 2, has been designed in order to support various context-aware computing applications in an urban environment [6], [24]. A server part stores memories and their context information, it then uses user context in order to select which memories to present.…”

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Collective city memory

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Christopoulou

2013

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Communities and Technologies

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“…In our case, we learned from these projects how to carefully orchestrate a complete mobile experience, pacing content to avoid overloading the audience with overlapping tasks and media. In particular a number of these projects focused specifically on empowering communities, highlighting local histories [7,8,9], counteracting media reports that damaged the reputations of disadvantaged neighbourhoods [10], and connecting communities with visitors [11].…”

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Yasmine’s Adventures: An Interactive Urban Experience Exploring the Sociocultural Potential of Digital Entertainment

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Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2015

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“…Our system, CLIO [8], is a context-aware urban computing system that explores the possibilities that Infrastructure deployed in modern cities, ranging from smart personal devices to pervasive displays, offers in order to preserve collective city memory. It is a system that enables people to share personal memories and interact with the collective memory.…”

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“…Field experience from the in-the-wild deployment of CLIO in two different cities, Corfu and Oulu, proves its benefits to a city community regarding participation, engagement, sense of belonging, social interactions and intergenerational dialogue, as well its contribution to cultural heritage preservation [8], [9]. We approached participation studying first whether people share their personal memories.…”

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The Vision of the Sociable Smart City

Christopoulou

Ringas

Garofalakis

2014

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. In this paper we define what is a Sociable Smart City and how this vision can be realised. This vision elaborates on recent developments in smart cities around the world where novel technologies and applications have been introduced in order to provide services and promote economic growth and sustainability. According to our approach a smart city has to also focus on social and cultural aspects, to allow people to interact with their cities in novel ways and to enable them to shape and decide the future of the city. This approach has originated from the large-scale deployment and evaluation of the CLIO urban computing system, which enables people to interact with the collective city memory. Our findings revealed that a system that exploits city infrastructure and both people's and artificial intelligence in order to empower and engage them in social activities may enhance citizen participation and sense of belonging as well as it may enable urban social interactions. Aiming to address the Sociable Smart City vision, we held a homonymous workshop in 2013 that brought together researchers of urban computing, smart cities, pervasive technologies and hci. Among its outcomes has been a definition of the Sociable Smart City, the identification of challenges in realising it, the proposition of applications that can accelerate its adoption and what their impact can be, as well as the identification of the major stakeholders involved.

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Experiences from the Urban Computing Impact on Urban Culture

Cited by 9 publications

References 16 publications

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Collective city memory

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