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Session 02 - Initial Thoughts on Creating a Design Brief for Urban Informatics Projects

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1- Identifying a general problem area

UrbanMobility asa generalproblem

area

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Urban mobility as general problem area

Conventional responses focused on production of space

Intensification and expansion of infrastructures of mobility, focusing

on production of space

Reducing the need for urban trips by designing mixed-use neighborhoods

Spatiallimitations

Financiallimitations

Socio-economicallimitations

What aboutsocial

interaction?

Temporallimitations

Financial penalty mechanismsfor traffic reduction

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Progressive responses focused on consumption of space

O ptimization of use of existing infrastructures of mobility, focusing on lifestyle choices and consumption of space

Adding a virtual depth toexisting infrastructure to make it

more efficient

Reducing physical circulation by providing platforms for

virtual connections

Creating social awareness using potentials of on-line socialnetworking model

A move from ³My choice of

mobility has an impact on me´to ³my choice of mobility has animpact on others and vice versa´

Creating a social reward

mechanism as opposed tomerely focusing on financial

penalty mechanisms

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Challenges and possible areas of technologically enhanced interventions

Zero-carbon modes of urban transportation

Low-carbon modes of urban transportationFuel-base urban mobility energyconsumption paradigm and itsnegative environmental impact

O ptimized travel routes based on real-time state of traffic congestion

O ptimized traffic management using situated technologies

Real-time, dynamic traffic control

Single-driver, private, vehicle mobility choice vs. public transport

Time wasted during commute

Introducing a mobile life-style

Stuck in traffic, have some fun scenarios

Who needs to go there if you are already there, or, what you need is already here?!

technologically enhanced distribution networks

E-commerce, E-shopping, E-government, E-living

Tele-presence and connecting via distance in multi-modal, high-resolution, culturallyand psychologically satisfying fashion

Traffic congestion

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2- Narrowing down to a problem set

-Single-driver, private, vehicle mobility choice vs. public transport

-Solution: A ubiquitous, multi-modal public transport, offering a quality rider¶s experience

-Solution: A ubiquitous, multi-modal public transport, offering a quality rider¶s experience

-Making public

transportTransparent

People know the public transportas if it is a privatemode of commute

-Real-time

information abouttraffic congestion

-Real-timeinformation aboutweather condition

-Real-timeinformation aboutroutes and current position of the public transport

fleet -Real-time

information aboutorigin/destinationof riders and their numbers

-Real-timeinformationregarding crowdnumbers and

distributions

-Making public

transport Flexible -Can transfer

hubs for multi-modal urbanmobility becomefloating

-Making public

transport On-demand

-Routes thatchage based ontrends in requestsinitiated by usersor travelorigin/destinationinformation

-Making public

transport Reliable Efficient

management

Well-informeduse

-Making public

transport Socio-culturally Cool

-Public transportas interactionfield for technologicallymediated fleetingencounters between strangers

-Public transport,

as a collectivelyenjoyed,technologicallymediated, publicspectacle

-Public transportas safe

-Bus-is-the-new-Porsche. Can asubway car be as

sexy and asempowering as a2011 Bugatti?!

-Public transportas a destination inits own right asopposed to a pathto destination

-Making public

transportcomfortable bothwhen you wait andwhen you ride

-Technologicalenhancement of stops andtransportationhubs

- Technological

enhancement of the vehicles

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3. Identifying Relevant Urban Information

-Problem :Single-driver, private, vehicle mobility choice vs. public transport

-Solution :A ubiquitous, multi-modal public transport, offering a quality rider¶s experience

Relevant Urban Information

-weather condition

-traffic/congestion

-public transport schedule, current arrivaltimes, current travel times, current route

and position on-route

-number of riders

-rider¶s origin destination information

-crowd spotting

-number of waiting riders

-number of riding riders

-events on-route and at transportation hubs

-who you are riding with?

-where are your friends?

-current locations of hubs if floating

-anticipated change in routes if flexible and

on-demand, on-demand trends

-emotional state of the riders

-best plan trip both in terms of modalityand route

-problem areas within the public transportnetwork

-rider¶s feedback

-information regarding ride sharing andcirculation oriented transport sharing

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5. Characteristics of the Dataset



What is the structure a sample data recordin the datasets: what, where, when,duration, relational connection, how

many/how much, «

Who owns the data? What are theincentives that you can provide for the

owner of data to share it?

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6. Risks of Sharing Data



What are the risks of sharingthis data in terms of:

- privacy issues

-safety and security issues - improper use

-crowd-mentality issues (what if everybody has access to the sameinformation? Would they act in a way that negates the initial purpose of making the dynamics transparent?

-big brother effect

-information overload effect

How can the risk be addressed?

-filtering data

- anonymizing data

-aggregation data

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7. Information flow and its architecture



-public domain vs. passport protected

-access levels

-free vs. paid-per-view vs.subscription

-contribution in return for access ± point systems

-push vs. pull services

-Public screens, embeddedscreens

-hand-held devices

-All-in-one platform

-customizable informationfeed

-peer to peer vs.centralized

-One Big Brother vs. AThousand Little Sisters

-O pen or password protected

-synchronous vs.asynchronous vs. semi-synchronous

-soft real-time vs. hardreal-time

-frequency of update

-cost/benefit analysis of frequency of update

How real-timeshould be the

data?

Information-flow

architecture

Modes of delivery of

information

Identifyinghow the Data

should beDelivered?

Platforms for delivery of information:

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8. Technology and its shortcomings



How to deal with technology shortcomings

-always on-line

-off-line services

-combinatory approach

-low-rez vs. high-rez solutions

-hard real-time vs. soft real-timesolutions

- Information bottle-necks and systemfailures

Technology of transmission-bridgingdistance

-one to one vs. one to many vs. manyto many vs. many to one

-infrastructure

-wired-wireless

-effective range

-bandwidth

-coverage

Technology of storage-bridging time

-memory of past

-anticipation of future

-pattern recognition

-always storing in running memory,

archiving, a combinatory approach-selective storage, low-resolutionstorage, limited storage, no-storage

-server farms: the physical reality of the virtual dimension

Available technologies for sensing andactuatin, display and user participation

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9. Implementation action plan



-Extreme Approach; starts from a highly specific scenario

-O pen Approach; conceptualizes the scenario as open to multiple interpretationsand allowing different modes of usageImplementation action plan

Prototypical implementation

- scaling up the prototype

-economy of scale

-scalability

-adapting to new/emergent/unknown conditions

-cross-platform compatibility

-adaptation rate and critical mass

-politics of resolution

Question of scale

Considerations of commercialization and technologytransfer

Post implementation user-study

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