1st Edition
Smart Cities at Play: Technology and Emerging Forms of Playfulness
1. Introduction to Smart Cities at Play: Technology and Emerging forms of playfulness
Konstantinos Papangelis, Michael Saker and Catherine Jones
2. Factors that determine residents’ acceptance of smart city technologies
Abdulrahman Habib, Duha Alsmadi and Victor R. Prybutok
3. The role of a location-based city exploration game in digital placemaking
Carolyn Pang, Carman Neustaedter, Karyn Moffatt, Kate Hennessy and Rui Pan
4. Seeing new in the familiar: intensifying aesthetic engagement with the city through new location-based technologies
Sanna Lehtinen and Vesa Vihanninjoki
5. Play in the smart city context: exploring interactional, bodily, social and spatial aspects of situated media interfaces
Andre G. Afonso and Ava Fatah gen Schieck
6. Smart data at play: improving accessibility in the urban transport system
Paloma Cáceres, Carlos E. Cuesta, Belén Vela, José María Cavero and Almudena Sierra
7. Serious gaming as a means of facilitating truly smart cities: a narrative review
M. Cavada and C. D. F. Rogers
Biography
Prof. Papangelis is an Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, specializing in interactive games and media. He directs the Niantic X RIT Geo Games and Media Lab, focusing on locative media, extended/hybrid reality, and the metaverse. He has published extensively in renowned journals and conference proceedings.
Dr. Saker is a Senior Lecturer at City, University of London. He is co-author of From Microverse to Metaverse (2022); Intergenerational Locative Play (2021); and Location-Based Social Media, Space, Time and Identity (2017); and co-editor of The Changing Face of VR (2022).
Dr. Jones is an Assistant Professor in Digital Human Geographies in the Faculty of Human, Education and Social Sciences at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
