Instrumenting the City: Developing Methods for Observing and Understanding the Digital Cityscape Export

@inproceedings{oneill:cityware, abstract = {We approach the design of ubiquitous computing systems in the urban 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, recording, 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.}, author = {O'Neill, Eamonn and Kostakos, Vassilis and Kindberg, Tim and Schiek, Ava F. and Penn, Alan and Fraser, Dana\"{e} S. and Jones, Tim}, booktitle = {Proceedings of UbiComp 2006}, citeulike-article-id = {2604293}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11853565_19}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/m4872223743533n0}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/hci/pervasive/publications/ubicomp06.pdf}, doi = {10.1007/11853565_19}, isbn = {978-3-540-39634-5}, keywords = {bluetooth, context-awareness, location, measurement, ubicomp}, location = {Orange County, CA, USA}, month = {September}, pages = {315--332}, posted-at = {2009-07-21 22:37:06}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Springer}, title = {Instrumenting the City: Developing Methods for Observing and Understanding the Digital Cityscape}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11853565_19}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - oneill:cityware L3 - citeulike-article-id:2604293 N2 - We approach the design of ubiquitous computing systems in the urban 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, recording, 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. CY - Orange County, CA, USA SN - 978-3-540-39634-5 EP - 332 TI - Instrumenting the City: Developing Methods for Observing and Understanding the Digital Cityscape PB - Springer T2 - Proceedings of UbiComp 2006 SP - 315 KW - bluetooth KW - context-awareness KW - location KW - measurement KW - ubicomp AU - O'Neill, Eamonn AU - Kostakos, Vassilis AU - Kindberg, Tim AU - Schiek, Ava AU - Penn, Alan AU - Fraser, Danaë AU - Jones, Tim PY - 2006/September// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11853565_19 ER -