1st Edition

Street Computing Urban Informatics and City Interfaces

120 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

122 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

128 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book develops tools and techniques that will help urban residents gain access to urban computing. Metaphorically speaking, it is taking computing to the street by giving the general public – rather than just researchers and professionals – the power to leverage available city infrastructure and create solutions tailored to their individual needs. It brings together five articles that are... Read more

1. Street Computing: Towards an Integrated Open Data Application Programming Interface (API) for Cities  Ricky Robinson, Markus Rittenbruch, Marcus Foth, Daniel Filonik and Stephen Viller  2. Designing for the Situated and Public Visualization of Urban Data  Andrew Vande Moere and Dan Hill  3. Probing Streets and the Built Environment with Ambient and Community Sensing  Flora Dilys Salim  4. User-Led Design in the Urban/Domestic Environment  Georgina Voss and Natasha Carolan  5. Enabling the Real-Time City: LIVE Singapore!  Kristian Kloeckl, Oliver Senn and Carlo Ratti

Biography

Marcus Foth is Associate Professor and a Principal Research Fellow with the School of Design, and the Director of the Urban Informatics Research Lab at Queensland University of Technology.

Markus Rittenbruch is a Senior Research Fellow with the Urban Informatics Research Lab at Queensland University of Technology.

Ricky Robinson is a Senior Research Scientist with National ICT Australia (NICTA).

Stephen Viller is a lecturer in the Information Environments Program (IEP) at the University of Queensland, Australia.