Towards a narrative-aware design framework for smart urban environments

  • Authors:
  • Lara Srivastava;Athena Vakali

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Media Communications, Webster University, Geneva, Switzerland;Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

  • Venue:
  • The Future Internet
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Innovation in smart city systems is based on the principle that devices, places and everyday things can each be enabled to serve people in a real-time and responsive manner. This chapter presents a novel approach to the design of smart city systems that takes into account not only technical installations in a future Internet of Things environment, but also the power of human storytelling in an always-on networked world. It is only when environments are both sensor-driven and socially-aware that a more holistic, and therefore more useful, urban narrative can emerge in the future Internet context. The present chapter proposes a new narrative-aware design framework and applies it to a hypothetical city scenario in order to highlight its main components and the benefits it may offer to a future Internet city's actors.