With the rise of the Quantified-Self movement and widespread adoption of self tracking
technologies,'personal'has become a new dimension in the map and geovisualization …

This paper presents research in the field of Urban Interaction Design which seeks to
understand how people's personal, emotional relationships with urban places could …

Smart Cities denote a stronger integration of information technology into the organisation of
a city and the interaction and participation of its citizens. In developing the concept further …

This book emerged from a chance collision of the editors, and others, at an ACM SIGCHI
conference in 2011 in Vancouver. We were a disparate collection of academics and …

DIY networking is a technology with special characteristics compared to the public Internet,
which holds a unique potential for empowering citizens to shape their hybrid urban space …

This report provides a summary of the organization, program, and outcome of the Dagstuhl
seminar titled" Do-It-Yourself networking: an interdisciplinary perspective". We first motivate …

Individual movement traces recorded by users of activity tracking applications such as
Strava provide opportunities that extend beyond delivering personal value or insight to the …

Abstract The Adaptive Governance Lab at the School of Architecture at University of Limerick
has been working collaboratively with local government officials and community activists on …

In this chapter, the author examines a citizen-driven intervention regarded as “city hacking”;
the initiative empowered citizens to organize themselves around a communal issue and …

With the vision of ubiquitous computing becoming increasingly realized through smart city
solutions, the proliferation of smartphones and smartwatches, and the rise of the quantified …