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Fostering off-line interactions through local ubicomp systems: The case of urban development
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Conference contribution
Published
- Department of Management Science
- Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
- School of Computing and Communications
Associated organisations
| Publication date | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Host publication | UbiComp '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing |
| Place of publication | New York |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Pages | 804-805 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-1224-0 |
| Original language | English |
Abstract
While many global internet services today could be perceived as being largely managed top-down without much appreciation of local control, recent examples such as location-based data stores implemented in cities around the world suggest opportunities for novel forms of management of data with relevance to a local context. We argue that such localization of ubiquitous system management provides an opportunity in supporting local off-line interaction and ‘community building’ and that urban development, which requires interaction between members of different communities, presents an interesting case to support this claim.