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Life at the local scale: an alternative perspective on the urban. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smyth, M., & Helgason, I. (2015, September). Life at the local scale: an alternative perspective on the urban. Presented at Hybrid Cities - Data to the People 3rd International Biennial Conference

The study of cities has risen to the top of research agendas in the last decade, raising the question of how to study something as vast and eclectic as cities. This paper proposes a return to a focus on the local as an appropriate scale to investigat... Read More about Life at the local scale: an alternative perspective on the urban..

Making places: visualization, interaction and experience in urban space (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smyth, M., Trigueiros, P., Helgason, I., Coelho, A., Gallacher, S., Burrows, A., Wunderlich, F., & Penha, R. (2014, October). Making places: visualization, interaction and experience in urban space. Presented at 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Fun, Fast, Foundational - NordiCHI '14, Helsinki, Finland

Preface to the focus section: Making places: visualization, interaction and experience in urban space

Cities are exciting and people continue to be drawn to urban areas because of the choices that cities offer in all areas of economic and social... Read More about Making places: visualization, interaction and experience in urban space.

A Market Analysis of Urban Interaction Design. (2015)
Book Chapter
Zaffiro, G., Bracuto, M., Brynskov, M., & Smyth, M. (2015). A Market Analysis of Urban Interaction Design. In Cpmmunications in Computer and Information Science: HCI International 2015 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts (587-591). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21383-5_98

Urban Interaction Design draws upon knowledge and approaches from a range of disciplines involved in the design of urban spaces, connecting them and establishing their interactions as a principle. It is also rooted in the wider field of interaction d... Read More about A Market Analysis of Urban Interaction Design..

City | Data | Future: envisioning interactions in hybrid urban space. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mitrović, I., Smyth, M., Helgason, I., & Mitrovic, I. (2015, June). City | Data | Future: envisioning interactions in hybrid urban space. Presented at 2015 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition

The City | Data | Future installation is a collection of “design fiction” video scenarios that speculate about the experience of urban life and how it might change in the near future. These visions were collaboratively created over the course of an i... Read More about City | Data | Future: envisioning interactions in hybrid urban space..

Discourse, speculation and mltidisciplinarity: designing urban futures. (2015)
Journal Article
Helgason, I., Smyth, M., Rosenbak, S., & Mitrovic, I. (2015). Discourse, speculation and mltidisciplinarity: designing urban futures. Nordic design research conference, 1-10

This paper presents a design case study of a summer school that brought together a multi-disciplinary group of early-career professionals to explore ideas relating to new technologies in an urban context. The organisers of the summer school took an e... Read More about Discourse, speculation and mltidisciplinarity: designing urban futures..

city | data | future – Interactions in Hybrid Urban Space: The UrbanIxD Exhibition (2014)
Book
Mitrovic, I., Smyth, M., & Helgason, I. (2014). city | data | future – Interactions in Hybrid Urban Space: The UrbanIxD Exhibition. UrbanIxD: Designing Human Interactions in the Networked City

The focus of the emergent field of Urban Interaction Design is public space and the relationships between people – with and through technology. The currency of these interactions is data. Making sense of this data, and making it meaningful, transpare... Read More about city | data | future – Interactions in Hybrid Urban Space: The UrbanIxD Exhibition.

Walking & talking: probing the urban lived experience. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stals, S., Smyth, M., & Ijsselsteijn, W. (2014, October). Walking & talking: probing the urban lived experience. Presented at NordiCHI'14 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational

With ubiquitous mobile computing devices spreading throughout the urban environment of everyday life, there is a growing need to better understand person-place relationships and how technology can play a role in this urban experience. To this end, we... Read More about Walking & talking: probing the urban lived experience..

From urban space to future place. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Helgason, I., Jensen, L., Rosenbak, S., Skrinjar, L., Smyth, M., Streinzer, A., Surawska, O., & Wouters, N. (2013, October). From urban space to future place

How the UrbanIxD summer school applied critical design & design fiction to future urban technologies. Produced in collaboration with the Book Sprints for ICT Research FP7 project. http://issuu.com/urbanixd/docs/from_urban_space_to_future_place

UrbanixD: designing human interactions in the networked city (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smyth, M., Helgason, I., Brynskov, M., Mitrovic, I., & Zaffiro, G. (2013, April). UrbanixD: designing human interactions in the networked city. Presented at CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Interaction Design, in an urban context, is an increasingly important field of research. City populations are currently in a state of rapid flux. Conurbations are fast becoming a hybrid of the physical environment and the digital datasphere. How we,... Read More about UrbanixD: designing human interactions in the networked city.