Helper agent: designing an assistant for human-human interaction in a virtual meeting space
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Development of low-cost compact omnidirectional vision sensors
Panoramic vision
FreeWalk: A 3D Virtual Space for Casual Meetings
IEEE MultiMedia
A Warm Cyber-Welcome: Using an Agent-Led Group Tour to Introduce Visitors to Kyoto
Digital Cities, Technologies, Experiences, and Future Perspectives [the book is based on an international symposium held in Kyoto, Japan, in September 1999
Town Digitizing for Building an Image-Based Cyber Space
Revised Papers from the Second Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities II, Computational and Sociological Approaches
Distributed vision system: a perceptual information infrastructure for robot navigation
IJCAI'97 Proceedings of the 15th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence - Volume 1
Editorial of the Special Issue on Digital Cities
Telematics and Informatics
Virtual cities for real-world crisis management
Digital Cities'03 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Information Technologies for Social Capital: cross-Cultural Perspectives
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As a platform for community networks, public information spaces that mirror the city metaphor are being developed around the world. The aim of digital cities is to pursue a future information space for everyday urban life, unlike the creation of new businesses which is the current obsession of the Internet. We started the basic research project called "Universal Design of Digital City," a five year project established in 2000, a part of the Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST) run by the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST). The objective of this project is to construct digital cities as the infrastructure that encourages the participation of all people, including the disabled and the aged. We will develop basic technologies for the universal design, focusing on 'sending information,' 'receiving information,' and 'participation.' This paper introduces some of various experiments such as crisis management, environmental learning, and shopping street navigation. Digital cities are not imaginary since they correspond to the physical urban spaces in which we live. Basic technologies including perceptual information infrastructure and social agents are being developed for connecting digital and physical cities.