Agents that reduce work and information overload
Communications of the ACM
HomeNet: a field trial of residential Internet services
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Communications of the ACM - How the virtual inspires the real
FreeWalk: A 3D Virtual Space for Casual Meetings
IEEE MultiMedia
Digital city project: NTT open laboratory
CHI '00 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Demographics and Sociographics of the Digital City
Community Computing and Support Systems, Social Interaction in Networked Communities [the book is based on the Kyoto Meeting on Social Interaction and Communityware, held in Kyoto, Japan, in June 1998]
A Warm Cyber-Welcome: Using an Agent-Led Group Tour to Introduce Visitors to Kyoto
Digital Cities, Technologies, Experiences, and Future Perspectives [the book is based on an international symposium held in Kyoto, Japan, in September 1999
Helsinki Arena 2000 - Augmenting a Real City to a Virtual One
Digital Cities, Technologies, Experiences, and Future Perspectives [the book is based on an international symposium held in Kyoto, Japan, in September 1999
Experiences of European Digital Cities
Digital Cities, Technologies, Experiences, and Future Perspectives [the book is based on an international symposium held in Kyoto, Japan, in September 1999
FreeWalk: a social interaction platform for group behaviour in a virtual space
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue on HCI research in Japan
The life and death of the great amsterdam digital city
Digital Cities'03 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Information Technologies for Social Capital: cross-Cultural Perspectives
Virtual helsinki: enabling the citizen, linking the physical and virtual
Digital Cities'03 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Information Technologies for Social Capital: cross-Cultural Perspectives
World digital cities: beyond heterogeneity
Digital Cities'03 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Information Technologies for Social Capital: cross-Cultural Perspectives
Web information retrieval based on user operation on digital maps
GIS '06 Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Local information and communication infrastructures: an introduction
Digital Cities'03 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Information Technologies for Social Capital: cross-Cultural Perspectives
Virtual helsinki: enabling the citizen, linking the physical and virtual
Digital Cities'03 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Information Technologies for Social Capital: cross-Cultural Perspectives
World digital cities: beyond heterogeneity
Digital Cities'03 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Information Technologies for Social Capital: cross-Cultural Perspectives
Talking digital cities: connecting heterogeneous digital cities via the universal mobile interface
Digital Cities'03 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Information Technologies for Social Capital: cross-Cultural Perspectives
Recognizing buildings using a mobile system and a reference city model
Digital Cities'03 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Information Technologies for Social Capital: cross-Cultural Perspectives
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We have developed a digital city for Kyoto, the old capital and cultural center of Japan, as a social information infrastructure for urban everyday life including shopping, business, transportation, education, social welfare and so on. The project was initiated by researchers in NTT and Kyoto University in 1998. In 1999, the Digital City Kyoto Experimentation Forum was launched. The forum includes several universities, local authorities, leading computer companies, local newspaper companies, historical temples, as well as photographers, programmers, students, volunteers and so on. Researchers and designers from overseas have also joined the project. One of the salient features of Digital City Kyoto is that computer scientists from universities and companies have continued to play a leading role in the organization. As a result, Digital City Kyoto is based on the newest technologies including GIS, VR, animation and social agents. The three-layer architecture for digital cities has been proposed: a) the information layer integrates both Web archives and real-time sensory information related to the city, b) the interface layer provides two and three dimensional views of the city, and c) the interaction layer assists social interaction among people who are living/visiting in/at the city. In this paper, the organization and activities of three year experiments, from 1998 to 2001, named Digital City Kyoto, and the technical/social lessons we have learned are described in detail.