Ubicomp'13 sencity workshop: sensing festivals as cities

Authors:
Matthew D. Jarvis;Toby Harris;Laurissa Tokarchuk
Affiliations:
Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom;Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom;Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication
Year:
2013

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Abstract

In order to sense the mood of a city, we propose first looking at festivals. In festivals such as Glastonbury or Burning Man we see temporary cities where the inhabitants are engaged afresh with their environment and each other. Our position is that not only are there direct equivalences between larger festivals and cities, but in festivals the phenomena are often exaggerated, and the driving impulses often exploratory. These characteristics well suit research into sensing and intervening in the urban experience. To this end, we have built a corpus of sensor and social media data around a 18,000 attendee music festival and are developing ways of analysing and communicating it.