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Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Augmented Virtual Environments (AVE): Dynamic Fusion of Imagery and 3D Models
VR '03 Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Reality 2003
Proceedings of the 4th workshop on Embedded networked sensors
Urban sensing: out of the woods
Communications of the ACM - Urban sensing: out of the woods
Cellular Census: Explorations in Urban Data Collection
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Common Sense: participatory urban sensing using a network of handheld air quality monitors
Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
Is it really about me?: message content in social awareness streams
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
An unobtrusive behavioral model of "gross national happiness"
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Earthquake shakes Twitter users: real-time event detection by social sensors
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Classifying latent user attributes in twitter
SMUC '10 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Search and mining user-generated contents
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In this paper we introduce the concept of Parallel Cities---live, 3D simulations of actual cities kept "true to life" using real-time information from their real-world counterparts. A key enabler of the concept is the ever-growing tide of SNS (e.g., Twitter) updates, that can be aggregated and analyzed to obtain a rough, but macroscopically accurate picture of the current state of a city. Metaphorically, Parallel Cities will allow users to instantly "open windows" to any place in the world, providing an attractive enhancement to existing online mapping services. The paper will offer a concise discussion of the technical details of the concept, centered around descriptions of a working prototype that targets the city of Tokyo, Japan.