Street Computing: Urban Informatics and City Interfaces by Marcus Foth,Markus Rittenbruch,Ricky Robinson,Stephen Viller

By Marcus Foth,Markus Rittenbruch,Ricky Robinson,Stephen Viller

This booklet develops instruments and strategies that would support city citizens achieve entry to city computing. Metaphorically conversing, it's taking computing to the road by way of giving most of the people – instead of simply researchers and execs – the facility to leverage on hand urban infrastructure and create ideas adapted to their person wishes. It brings jointly 5 articles which are in accordance with displays given on the highway Computing Workshop hung on 24 November 2009 in Melbourne at the side of the Australian Computer-Human interplay convention (OZCHI 2009).


This quantity makes a speciality of utilizing city informatics, city and neighborhood sensing and open program programming interfaces (APIs) to the general public house during the supply of on-line prone, on call for and in genuine time. It then deals a case research of the way the town of Singapore has harnessed the possibility of an internet infrastructure in order that citizens and viewers can entry providers electronically.


This ebook was once released as a unique factor of the Journal of city Technology.

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