Exploring the Quantified Experience: Finding Spaces for People and Their Voices in Smarter, More Responsive Cities

Innovating Metrics for Smarter, Responsive Cities

“…Furthermore, building on the work of Gross and Levenson [100], Fakhrhosseini and Jeon [99] include "neutral" as one of eight emotional states and this work includes "neutral" as position 4 on the 7-point scale for the adapted BIS exploration in this study which emerged as a data point in response to anger in urban contexts and to perceptions of openness and smart cities. It is perhaps important to note that although explored already by McKenna [4] in the context of augmenting the quantified experience and in terms of sensing, sensors, and the IoT and public sector implementation challenges [101], BIS explorations in this work extend to, and focus upon, the potential for the innovation of urban metrics more generally and considerations of reliability of the scale for urban environments through use of confidence interval and Cronbach's Alpha calculations.…”

“…As such, as presented in Table 3, the literature review provides the conceptual basis for the formation of interconnected thinking between the use of data generated in cities and their citizens. Earlier work by McKenna [4] articulates the notion of more aware people combined with more aware technologies in the context of new forms of data as spaces for people and their voices in smarter, more responsive cities while context-aware platforms are highlighted by Chauhan et al [11] and Jara et al [12]. The constructs of awareness, learning, openness, and engagement are used in this work to guide the exploration of innovating metrics.…”

“…An exploration of the BIS was presented in the context of people-aware quantified experiences [4] where researchers expressed an interest in learning more about the reliability of this technique where it was suggested that use of confidence interval calculations would be helpful. As such, calculations for reliability of the BIS are provided here for safety, comfort, and tension in urban environments.…”

“…In response, the purpose of this paper is to advance the need for innovating metrics for smarter, more responsive cities in addressing and mitigating algorithmic-related challenges on the one hand [3] and on the other hand, concerns associated with involving people more meaningfully. To this end, the constructs of awareness, learning, openness, and engagement [4] are employed in this study in the search for more meaningful metrics [5]. A combination of emergence theory [6] and complexity theory [7] in the context of urban environments as emergent urbanism [8] supports the use of these four constructs in relation to human interactions.…”

Opportunities for sustainable and intelligent mobility in the responsive city

“…Taking into account the technological perspective, smart cities are supplied with data to promote information units that support decision-making and the governance (McKenna, 2019a), (von Richthofen et al, 2019), (McKenna, 2019b), such a way to promote knowledge generation in the different actors of the city itself.…”