Making places: visualization, interaction and experience in urban space

Abstract

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 life. Large-scale sensor networks and pervasive computing technologies are transforming our city environments, augmenting them with increasingly powerful networked technologies and media. This raises the question of how these technologies can play a part in improving the use of the spaces that already exist in the urban environment and, critically, what roles information visualization and interaction design have in these “future” or “smart” cities. In this emergent domain visualizations are becoming especially relevant, as they are the tangible outcomes of these systems, while interaction design can be the enabler for citizens to engage with this urban data.

Citation

Smyth, M., Trigueiros, P., Helgason, I., Coelho, A., Gallacher, S., Burrows, A., …Penha, R. (2015). Making places: visualization, interaction and experience in urban space. Interaction Design and Architecture(s) IxDetA, 25, 813-816

• Journal Article Type: Conference Paper
• Conference Name: Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Fun, Fast, Foundational - NordiCHI '14
• Start Date: Oct 26, 2014
• End Date: Oct 30, 2014
• Acceptance Date: Oct 26, 2014
• Publication Date: Jul 31, 2015
• Deposit Date: Apr 20, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: May 15, 2017
• Journal: Interaction Design and Architecture(s) IxDatA
• Print ISSN: 1826-9745
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 25
• Pages: 813-816
• Book Title: NordiCHI '14 Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational
• Chapter Number: n/a
• ISBN: 9781450325424
• Keywords: Urban space; pervasive computing; informationvisualization; citizens; engagement; user experience;cross-disciplinary
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9732
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2639189.2654834