Dissemin is shutting down on January 1st, 2025

Published in

Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, p. 315-332, 2006

DOI: 10.1007/11853565_19

Links

Tools

Export citation

Search in Google Scholar

Instrumenting the city: developing methods for observing and understanding the digital cityscape

This paper is available in a repository.
This paper is available in a repository.

Full text: Download

Red circle
Preprint: archiving forbidden
Orange circle
Postprint: archiving restricted
Red circle
Published version: archiving forbidden
Data provided by SHERPA/RoMEO

Abstract

We approach the design of ubiquitous computing systems in the ur-ban environment as integral to urban design. To understand the city as a system encompassing physical and digital forms and their relationships with people's behaviours, we are developing, applying and refining methods of observing, re-cording, modelling and analysing the city, physically, digitally and socially. We draw on established methods used in the space syntax approach to urban design. Here we describe how we have combined scanning for discoverable Bluetooth devices with two such methods, gatecounts and static snapshots. We report our experiences in developing, field testing and refining these augmented methods. We present initial findings on the Bluetooth landscape in a city in terms of patterns of Bluetooth presence and Bluetooth naming practices.