Paper Info
Title
The city at hand: media installations as urban information systems
Abstract
This paper describes an approach to design a novel system for presenting data related to a city in an intuitive and metaphorical way. By using interactive surfaces and the coupling of information with graspable physical objects, urban data, maps and live sensors built around the physical model of a city can be used to engage discourse and civil participation. This research group aims to create new media installations for bridging the gap between citizen and urban data. In this research, we realized two installations named "Changing Linz" and "SimLinz". By providing different interaction modalities to generate and visualize views of datasets, the systems support new insights on statistical and real-time information of a city. The paper is a case study of urban information presentation systems that were built for public installations in the city of Linz.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1868914.1869000
NordiCHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
physical model,civil participation,real-time information,new media installation,graspable physical object,urban information system,case study,urban information presentation system,urban data,research group,new insight,information system,collaboration,new media,hci,multimedia,real time,interaction design
Modalities,Information system,Interaction design,Computer science,Bridging (networking),New media,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia,Information presentation
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roland Haring1245.24
Hideaki Ogawa2336.33
Christopher Lindinger310714.84
Horst Hörtner410414.96
Shervin Afshar500.34
David Stolarsky621.06