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Understanding the ambience of an area is essential for making various geographical decisions. This kind of ambience (e.g., "beautiful," "quiet," "happy," "retro," etc.) is due to not only physical features, such as scenery and functionality, but also ...

The convergence of networked digital infrastructures and built environments have given rise to the "urban user", a conflation of "the user" and "the resident" or "the citizen". The urban user and the city infrastructures are mutually constituted ...

Amidst the epistemological turbulence of the Anthropocene, forging new narratives has considerable importance. Departing from human-centred thinking and world-building, a shift in perspective towards a more-than-human worldview requires a continuous ...

The everyday use of means of transportation by millions of people combined with the continuous spreading of smartphones which are now equipped with various sensors, imply the existence of abundance of real-world transportation-related data and make ...

The current trend toward urbanization and adoption of flexible and innovative mobility technologies will have complex and difficult-to-predict effects on urban transportation systems. Comprehensive methodological frameworks that account for the ...

The 8th Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA 2019) aims to build on the success of the previous workshops organized in conjunction with the Pervasive (2011-12) and UbiComp (2013, 2015-18) to continue to disseminate the results of the latest ...

Many working professionals commute via public transit, yet they have limited tools for learning about their urban neighborhoods and fellow commuters. We designed a location-based game called City Explorer to investigate how transit commuters capture, ...

We introduce Project Sidewalk, a new web-based tool that enables online crowdworkers to remotely label pedestrian-related accessibility problems by virtually walking through city streets in Google Street View. To train, engage, and sustain users, we ...

What makes a city meaningful to its residents? What attracts people to live in a city and to care for it? Today, we might see such questions as concerns for HCI, given the emerging agendas of smart and connected cities, IoT, and ubiquitous computing: ...

Urban computing is an emerging area of investigation in which researchers study cities using digital data. Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) generate one specific type of digital data that offers unprecedented geographic and temporal resolutions. ...

Entrepreneurs and start-up founders using innovation spaces and hubs often find themselves inside a filter bubble or echo chamber, where like-minded people tend to come up with similar ideas and recommend similar approaches to innovation. This trend ...

Immersive technologies such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) have the potential to augment experiences within cities and the process of designing architecture. However, more work is needed to understand specific ...

We consider some of the planetary conditions and global circumstances that both research and practice of media architecture are embedded within, such as climate change, pollution, resource consumption, and loss of biodiversity. While there has been a ...

Research on media architecture to date has predominately focused on the integration of digital technologies, such as low-resolution media façades, into urban environments within a public context. In this paper, we present an analysis of two case studies, ...

The 7th Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA 2018) aims to build on the success of the previous workshops organized in conjunction with the Pervasive (2011-12) and UbiComp (2013, 2015--17) to continue to disseminate the results of the latest ...

Recent studies in urban navigation have revealed new demands (e.g., diversity, safety, happiness, serendipity) for the navigation services that are critical to providing useful recommendations to travelers. This exposes the need to design next-...

People fulfill their informational needs through smartphones, however, little is known regarding how the urban fabric and the activities that take place in it affect the usage of mobile applications. In this regard, starting from an anonymized dataset of ...

The last decade has seen a huge expansion in the use of social media to extract data about human behaviour. While metadata and textual information have taken the lion's share as data sources for social media analysis, geotagged image-based platforms ...

In this paper, we work to inform the growing space of Digital Civics with a qualitative study of community engagement practices across the breadth of municipal departments and agencies in a large US city. We conducted 34 inter-views across 15 different ...

Lickable Cities is a research project that responds to the recent and overwhelming abundance of non-calls for gustatory exploration of urban spaces. In this paper, we share experiences from nearly three years of nonrepresentational, absurdist, and ...