On Exploring a Pervasive Infrastructure to Foster Citizens Participation and Sustainable Development

This paper presents an experimental study where we engaged citizens in a user-driven innovation process to design smart services, exploiting data collected by a low-cost pervasive sensing infrastructure, called Beanstalk. Such as infrastructure has been developed with the final goal to deliver data back to local communities which are empowered to act and leverage the collected hyperlocal information. In doing that, we organized different user-driven innovation sessions aimed to capture communities’ ideas and desires, with the intent to develop human centred and transparent intelligent urban environments. The preliminary results show the interest of citizens in being informed about the phenomena revealed by the gathered data and in acting toward a sustainable development, through the creation of smart services.

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Catia Prandi

Valentina Nisi

Nuno Nunes

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Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 1-5

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[0001]Madeira-ITI

ARDITI

Funchal, Portugal

[0002]Madeira-ITI

U. da Madeira

Funchal, Portugal

[0003]Madeira-ITI

Tecnico - U. of Lisbon

Lisbon, Portugal

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.223

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 32

Conference location: Belfast, UK

Conference date: 4 - 6 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction Conference

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[1] J. C. AugustoV. CallaghanD. CookA. KameasI. Satoh 2013 Intelligent environments: a manifesto Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences 3 1 12

[2] M. BalestriniT. DiezP. Marshall 2014 September Beyond boundaries: the home as city infrastructure for smart citizens In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication 987 990 ACM

[3] M. Bastian 2016 Towards a more-than-human participatory research In Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds 33 51 Routledge

[4] A.G. BerenguerA.T. FernandesS. OliveiraM. RodriguesP. OrnelasD. RomeiraT. SerrãoA. RosaR. Câmara 2014 Genetic polymorphisms and asthma: findings from a case–control study in the Madeira island population. Biological research 47 1 40

[5] J. BuurB. Matthews 2008 Participatory innovation: a research agenda In Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008 186 189 Indiana University

[6] M. H. Coen 1998 Design principles for intelligent environments In AAAI/IAAI 547 554

[7] T.R. ChangE. Kaasinen 2011 Three user-driven innovation methods for co-creating cloud services In IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 66 83 Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

[8] M. CuncheM.A. KaafarR. Boreli 2014 Linking wireless devices using information contained in Wi-Fi probe requests. Pervasive and Mobile Computing 11 56 69

[9] C. DiSalvoP. SengersH. Brynjarsdóttir 2010), April. Mapping the landscape of sustainable HCI. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems 1975 1984 ACM

[10] C. DiSalvoJ. Lukens 2011 Nonanthropocentrism and the non-human in design: Possibilities for designing new forms of engagement with and through technology From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen Urban Informatics, Social Media, Ubiquitous Computing, and Mobile Technology to Support Citizen Engagement

[11] M. DixonS.P. AielloF. FapohundaW. Goldstein 2013 Detecting mobility patterns in mobile phone data from the Ivory Coast

[12] P. Dourish 2010 August HCI and environmental sustainability: the politics of design and the design of politics In Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on designing interactive systems 1 10 ACM

[13] L. Forlano 2016 Decentering the human in the design of collaborative cities Design Issues 32 3 42 54

[14] R. Kitchin 2014 The real-time city? Big data and smart urbanism GeoJournal 79 1 1 14

[15] A. MelisS. MirriC. PrandiM. PrandiniP. SalomoniF. Callegati 2016 September Crowdsensing for smart mobility through a service-oriented architecture In Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), 2016 IEEE International 1 2 IEEE

[16] M. MiguelT. NogueiraF. Martins 2017 Energy storage for renewable energy integration: the case of Madeira Island, Portugal Energy Procedia 136 251 257

[17] N. NunesM. RibeiroC. PrandiV. Nisi 2017 Beanstalk: a community based passive wi-fi tracking system for analysing tourism dynamics In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems 93 98 ACM

[18] C. PrandiN. NunesM. RibeiroV. Nisi 2017a Enhancing Sustainable Mobility Awareness by Exploiting Multi-sourced Data: the Case Study of the Madeira Islands In Proceedings of Fifth IFIP Conference on Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability.

[19] C. PrandiC. ChiodoR.J. VillaflorN. AutzenJ. Schöning 2017b The Madeira Touch: Encouraging Visual-Spatial Exploration using a Tactile Interactive Display In Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium, Posters and Demos at CHItaly 2017 111 115

[20] D. RedinD. VilelaN. NunesM. RibeiroC. Prandi 2017 ViTFlow: a platform to visualize tourists flows in a rich interactive map-based interface In Proceedings of Fifth IFIP Conference on Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability.

[21] P. SapiezynskiA. StopczynskiR. GatejS. Lehmann 2015 Tracking human mobility using wifi signals PloS one 10 7 p.e0130824

[22] M. SilbermanL. NathanB. KnowlesR. BendorA. ClearM. HåkanssonT. DillahuntJ. Mankoff 2014 Next steps for sustainable HCI interactions 21 5 66 69

[23] M. WeiserR. Gold 1999 The origins of ubiquitous computing research at PARC in the late 1980s IBM Systems Journal

[24] A. ZaslavskyC. PereraD. Georgakopoulos 2013 Sensing as a service and big data. arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.0159

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