Transdisciplinary approaches to urban computing

Kukka, Hannu; Foth, Marcus; Dey, Anind K.

doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2015.05.003

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“…Urban computing is an emerging and extremely important area of intersection, where computer science meets traditional city planning, transportation, energy, economics, environmental studies and sociology in urban space. The arrival of the era of big data has improved the feasibility of modeling micro-individuals, such as land, residents, households and businesses, and accelerated the possibility of accurately simulating cities, thereby providing a new powerful way to study the coupling relationship between humans and the environment at the micro-scale (Kukka et al, 2015;Zheng, 2015).…”

Section: Big Data and Urban Computing Modelsmentioning

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International progress and evaluation on interactive coupling effects between urbanization and the eco-environment

2016

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Global urbanization is exerting severe stress and having far-reaching impacts on the eco-environment, and yet there exists a complex non-linear coupling relationship between the two. Research on the interactive coupling effect between urbanization and the eco-environment will be a popular area of study and frontier in international earth system science and sustainability science in the next 10 years, while also being a high-priority research topic of particular interest to international organizations. This paper systematically collates and summarizes the international progress made in research on interactive coupling theory, coupling relationships, coupling mechanisms, coupling laws, coupling thresholds, coupling models and coupling optimization decision support systems. The research shows that urbanization and eco-environment interactive coupling theories include the Kuznets curve theory, telecoupling theory, planetary boundaries theory, footprint family theory and urban metabolism theory; most research on interactive coupling relationships is concerned with single-element coupling relationships, such as those between urbanization and water, land, atmosphere, climate change, ecosystems and biodiversity; the majority of research on interactive coupling mechanisms and laws focuses on five research paradigms, including coupled human and nature systems, complex social-ecological systems, urban ecosystems, social-economic-natural complex ecosystems, and urbanization development and eco-environment constraint ring; the majority of interactive coupling simulations use STIRPAT models, coupling degree models, multi-agent system models and big data urban computer models; and research has been carried out on urbanization and eco-environment coupling thresholds, coercing risk and optimal decision support systems. An objective evaluation of progress in international research on interactive coupling between urbanization and the eco-environment suggests that there are six main research focal points and six areas lacking research: a lot of research exists on macroscopic coupling effects, with little research on urban agglomeration and scale coupling effects; considerable research exists on sin-

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Section: Big Data and Urban Computing Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

International progress and evaluation on interactive coupling effects between urbanization and the eco-environment

2016

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“…Civic engagement, as defined by the American Psychological Association 1 , is any "individual and collective action designed to identify and address issues of public concern." It is all about caring and working to address issues that concern a community, from a local to a global scale.…”

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“…Further, the design of the supporting socially-oriented digital technologies has become a major research topic following the mass adoption of social networking. The research in the area is broad, and is often multi-disciplinary, crossdisciplinary and even trans-disciplinary [1], [2]. The research in the digital sciences spans the full software stack, from networking up to user interfaces.…”

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“…The research in the digital sciences spans the full software stack, from networking up to user interfaces. This includes middlewarerelated research, which is primarily concerned with either 1 http://www.apa.org/education/undergrad/civic-engagement.aspx analyzing social relations across social networks [3], [4], [5] or enforcing privacy [6], [7], [8].…”

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Social Middleware for Civic Engagement

Angarita

Georgantas

Issarny

2019

2019 IEEE 39th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)

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Civic engagement refers to any collective action towards the identification and solving of public issues. Current civic technologies are traditional Web-or mobile-based platforms that make difficult, or just impossible, the participation of citizens via different communication technologies. Moreover, connected objects sensing physical-world data can nourish participatory processes by providing physical evidence to citizens; however, leveraging these data is not direct and still a time-consuming process for civic technologies developers. This paper introduces the concept of social middleware for civic engagement. Social middleware allows citizens to engage in participatory processessupported by civic technologies-via their favorite communication tools, and to interact not only with other citizens but also with relevant connected objects and software platforms. The mission of social middleware goes beyond the connection of all these heterogeneous entities. It aims at easing the implementation of distributed applications oriented toward civic engagement by featuring dedicated built-in services.

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“…More recent developments have seen a turn to more participatory, political and infrastructural concerns within cities [7][8] [12] [17], particularly in light of smart city development and the interconnected potential of mobile technologies and crowd-sourced data collection, presentation and action. Yet research in this area has so far paid little attention to the politics of place and concerns for who is included and excluded from the discourses and management of place-based media interactions for urban planning and development [18].…”

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Re-configuring participatory media for citizen elders in urban planning

Clarke

Crivellaro

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 3rd Media Architecture Biennale Conference

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We discuss an experimental pilot study collecting and sharing media to explore active citizen engagement with older adults in the city. Our purpose was to inquire into the potential role of audiovisual media collection and presentation to inform urban planning. We encouraged collective documentation of the associations older people have with place and reflected on shared experiences within the context of mobile and civic technologies. We report on different phases of the study, contributing insights on the potential role of digital media to raise awareness and sensitivities to alternative perspectives providing expression of people's values. We speculate on potential opportunities for media architecture to present and re-mix media and make placebased contentions palpable.

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Transdisciplinary approaches to urban computing

Cited by 7 publications

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International progress and evaluation on interactive coupling effects between urbanization and the eco-environment

International progress and evaluation on interactive coupling effects between urbanization and the eco-environment

Social Middleware for Civic Engagement

Re-configuring participatory media for citizen elders in urban planning

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