Fostering off-line interactions through local ubicomp systems: the case of urban development

  • Authors:
  • Sebastian Weise;John Hardy;Pragya Agarwal;Paul Coulton;Adrian Friday;Mike Chiasson

  • Affiliations:
  • Lancaster University;Lancaster University;Lancaster University;Lancaster University;Lancaster University;Lancaster University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Many global internet services today can be thought of as being managed 'top-down' without much appreciation or requirement for local control. New services such as location-based data stores implemented in cities around the world suggest opportunities for novel forms of management of data with relevance to a local context. We argue that such localization of ubiquitous system management provides an opportunity in supporting local off-line interaction and 'community building' and that urban development, which requires interaction between members of different communities, presents an interesting case where such systems could be realised.