'Outsmarting Traffic, Together': Driving as Social Navigation

Hind, Sam; Gekker, Alex

doi:10.31273/eirj.v1i2.84

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“…10 For example, an open fire hydrant may be cause for concern during wintertime but may develop into a great community event during a heatwave when left untouched for a while. 11 For example, the Waze real-time traffic app payoff is: 'Outsmarting traffic, together': see www.waze.com (Hind and Gekker, 2014). 12 Currently I am involved in a series of research projects called 'The Hackable City'.…”

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From real-time city to asynchronicity

Lange¹

2018

Time for Mapping

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In a thought-provoking 'design fiction' exercise, design researchers Bleecker and Nova invert the discourse of instantaneity in urban computing and digital cartography (Bleecker and Nova, 2009). Urban new media tend to promote a speeding up of time: there is here a conspicuous arms race towards more instantaneity, more temporal proximity between events, people and places. Communication is promoted to be 'just-in-time'; feedback to your activities should be in 'real-time' as if you were playing a video-game character. Speed is essential, and this never-ending battle with time-to eliminate it-makes things happen instantaneously. (Bleecker and Nova, 2009: 29) By elevating 'real-time' to a prime design objective, urban new media in fact are geared to dispose of time-in the sense of duration-as a limiting factor altogether. Bleecker and Nova forward the notion of asynchronicity to explore how urban computing technologies might afford more diversified interactions than the efficiency-driven real-time model: there are many geographies, asynchronous because we have individual experiences of the world. Fixed things become flows, and flows become the fixed point of reference … Perhaps we learn from this that computing in an urban setting should first of all not be about data and algorithms, but people and their activities. What happens when time everywhere is not synchronised, when it floats and lags a bit? (Bleecker and Nova, 2009: 19)

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From real-time city to asynchronicity

Lange¹

2018

Time for Mapping

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“…Nevertheless, as a predominantly mobile platform, its ability to react to temporary road events is vital to its functioning. As one of the authors has argued elsewhere (Hind and Gekker 2013), this is a collaborative practice in which users are encouraged to contribute to the platform by submitting road closures and mapping routes as they drive.…”

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Digital mapping as double-tap: cartographic modes, calculations and failures

Hind

Lammes

2016

Global Discourse

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Original citation:Hind, Sam and Lammes, Sybille. (2015) Digital mapping as double-tap : cartographic modes, calculations and failures. Global Discourse : an interdisciplinary journal of current affairs and applied contemporary thought . ISSN 2326-9995 (in press In this article, we will ask how Latour's latest project -An Inquiry into Modes of Existence (AIME) -can help us to understand the nature of cartographic modes, calculations and failures. To this end, we will argue that in his many readings, specifically digital mapping can be said to operate through a 'double-click' mode which obscures the [REF-REP] crossing of which he now speaks of in AIME. More appropriately, we refine Latour's argument to suggest that contemporary navigational practice involves not simply a 'double-click' mentality but a 'double-tap' one. This action enables the user to not only zoom into the mapping interface -by virtue of a double-tap of a touch-sensitive screen -but also manipulate phenomena in mobile and haptic terms, as if the world was both accessible and knowable through the fingertips. This small tweak in terminology strengthens Latour's account of prevailing modern thinking, to allow for an even more robust analysis to take place. However, Latour is not the first to think in terms of 'modes'. Critical cartographers, for instance, have talked of so-called 'mapping modes'. Latour's ontological pluralism, together with these other cartographic and methodological versions, can help us to identify different operative elements in various digital mapping enterprises. We further argue that there is still considerable value in employing Latour's long-theorized notions of immutable mobility, inscription and calculation, so long as they are updated and refined for contemporary practices, and the various bridging strategies mentioned above are implemented and taken into consideration. In returning to our initial point, we then argue that there are moments in which this double-tap philosophy is laid bare and the seamless linking of the [REF] and[REP] modes of existence unravel. Taking on and extending Latour's interest in 'failure', we argue that the best way to challenge double-tap thinking, in a methodological sense, is to focus on the nuanced nature of digital mapping failures since these are instances that mapping no longer works 'without a hitch'. In such moments, the aura of unmediated technological practice slips. Instead, the bare operational bones are exposed, allowing the user to gain access to its failed state. We substantiate this final argument with reference to two cartographic cases concerning a flood event and a series of protest demonstrations.

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“…In addition, there are some outdoor recommendation systems for dynamic routing. Waze [14], for instance, is based on OpenStreetMap (OSM) [5], using the Kort application [4] to populate its database with reports of road hazards and collaborative management of vehicle flow. The Kort application uses the concept of gamification to motivate users to use it (users are rewarded by coins when reporting unprecedented events) and humanitarian volunteers are also able to populate the database in case of disasters or other special events.…”

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NaviSoc: A Socially Enhanced Real-Time Navigator

Louloudakis

Theodosiadis

Kondylakis

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop

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As the usage of social networks becomes more and more ubiquitous and people commute more often today, social streams have become a valuable source for many kinds of applications. For example, the various social streams could be exploited for choosing the optimal path (e.g., the shortest and/or the fastest) to reach a desired destination. To this direction, we present a novel navigation system, called NaviSoc. NaviSoc is a location-based, context-aware recommendation system proposing dynamically and in real-time, the best route according to the user's context (e.g., preferences and budget). The system takes advantage of social streams in order to identify unprecedented (e.g., traffic jam, protest) or social events occurring in a specific place. Then, using this knowledge, the system dynamically readjusts the proposed navigation path. An initial evaluation, performed on the Greek island of Crete, demonstrates the feasibility of our solution and the benefits of our system.

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'Outsmarting Traffic, Together': Driving as Social Navigation

Abstract: Abstract:The automotive world is evolving. Ten years ago Nigel Thrift (2004: 41)

Cited by 23 publications

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From real-time city to asynchronicity

From real-time city to asynchronicity

Digital mapping as double-tap: cartographic modes, calculations and failures

NaviSoc: A Socially Enhanced Real-Time Navigator

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