The familiar stranger: anxiety, comfort, and play in public places
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Guest Editors' Introduction: Urban Computing
IEEE Pervasive Computing
VTrack: accurate, energy-aware road traffic delay estimation using mobile phones
Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Eulerian video magnification for revealing subtle changes in the world
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - SIGGRAPH 2012 Conference Proceedings
Discovering regions of different functions in a city using human mobility and POIs
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Mood meter: counting smiles in the wild
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
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In this article I discuss some ethical and moral ramifications of the future envisioned by urban computing. In doing so, I make analogies to twentieth century utopian visions of the "city of tomorrow," so that we might see the historical context of a similar field with similar utopian instincts. I hope this context helps us better understand how our work might affect the lives of city dwellers in profound ways that we may never fully foresee. I discuss ethical questions related to using urban computing for policy making, for real-estate development, and for surveillance. I also define the concept of distributed sensing, and discuss some difficult regulatory questions that surround it. I hope this work inspires urban computing researchers to think critically in order to assess societal implications of the technologies they develop.