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Smart cities and technologies: connected or disconnected citizens?
2017
Field Actions Science Reports
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In this interview, Matthew Crawford gives details on this phenomenon that precedes Smart Cities but could be amplified by new technologies. ...
In his book The World Beyond Your Head: How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction, Matthew Crawford describes attention as a cultural problem of modern life. ...
What we need to look at is the driving intention in the design and dissemination of technology in people's everyday life. ...
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Challenges for Connecting Citizens and Smart Cities: ICT, E-Governance and Blockchain
2020
Sustainability
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This interaction has the potential of being boosted within the scope of smart and digital cities, especially by recent advances in blockchain technology. ...
This work introduces insights about how smart cities' concepts and innovative technologies can help society to face daily challenges for improving citizens' awareness. ...
In particular, Vitor N. Coelho and Igor M. Coelho for their valuable contributions and revisions. Finally, Maria Emília Junqueira for her professional English editing and revising over this paper. ...
doi:10.3390/su12072926
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Closing the loop — From citizen sensing to citizen actuation
2013
2013 7th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST)
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Human-in-the-loop" sensing or citizen sensing as a method for collecting, analysing, and mining information about events is becoming more mainstream. ...
Citizen sensors observe, report, and collect data -we propose by supporting these citizen sensors with methods to affect their surroundings we enable them to become citizen actuators. ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENT The work presented in this paper is funded in part by Science Foundation Ireland under grant number SFI/08/CE/I1380 (Líon 2) and by an NUI Galway College of Engineering and Informatics scholarship ...
doi:10.1109/dest.2013.6611338
dblp:conf/dest/CrowleyCB13
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Are Smart-City Projects Citizen-Centered?
2019
Social Sciences
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Smart cities have become a new urban model for thinking and designing cities in the connected society. It is time to ask ourselves what kind of city we want and need. ...
This autoethnography reveals different contradictions found during the preparation of my doctoral thesis, which studied the citizens' perception of smart city policies in a city in southern Spain, in my ...
Author Contributions: The authors contributed equally to the preparation of this paper. Funding: This research received no external funding. ...
doi:10.3390/socsci8110309
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Towards Ambient Assisted Cities and Citizens
2013
2013 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops
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The city is a challenging environment for anybody elderly or with disabilities. ...
Concretely, it lays out the ICT basis over which an ecosystem of user-centric urban apps aiding citizens in their daily activities may be assembled. ...
It is an app designed to help define requirements for more inclusive Smarter Cities. ...
doi:10.1109/waina.2013.203
dblp:conf/aina/Lopez-de-IpinaKVP13
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Citizen Sensing: An Action-Orientated Framework for Citizen Science
2021
Frontiers in Communication
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The authors argue that whilst data collection and data awareness are crucial to the citizen sensing process, there are precursory and subsequent stages which are necessary to equip citizens to address ...
Citizen Sensing, a correlative of Citizen Science, employs low-cost sensors to evidence local environmental issues and empowers citizens to use the data they collect. ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Authors would like to thank all project partners, in particular Drew Hemment. They would also like to thank Raquel Ajates for her advice and guidance in the final stages of the paper. ...
doi:10.3389/fcomm.2021.629700
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MobilitApp: Analysing mobility data of citizens in the metropolitan area of Barcelona
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2016
arXiv
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MobilitApp is a platform designed to provide smart mobility services in urban areas. It is designed to help citizens and transport authorities alike. ...
The information obtained is processed and analysed to understand the mobility patterns of our users in the city of Barcelona, Spain. ...
This work is supported by the Spanish Government through project INRISCO (INcident monitoRing In Smart COmmunities. QoS and Privacy, TEC2014-54335-C4-1-R). ...
arXiv:1605.06536v1
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From Users to Citizens
2015
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Australian Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction on - OzCHI '15
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and top-down-only vision of the smart city and consider alternative approaches that focus on the "smart citizens" (Foth & Brynskov, 2016, in press; Foth, Brynskov, & Ojala, 2016; Foth, Hudson-Smith, ...
, personal devices; broadband connectivity; open data; urban interfaces; and, cloud computing. ...
doi:10.1145/2838739.2838769
dblp:conf/ozchi/FothTSH15
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A Cloud-Based Architecture for Citizen Services in Smart Cities
2012
2012 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing
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In this regard, we present a Cloud-based architecture for context-aware citizen services for smart cities and walkthrough it using a hypothetical case study. ...
With continuous increase in urban population, the need to plan and implement smart cities based solutions for better urban governance is becoming more evident. ...
However, the absence of a common and standardised platform for collection, storage and utilisation of such data for collection, storage, analysis and dissemination of such data severely curtails the prospects ...
doi:10.1109/ucc.2012.43
dblp:conf/ucc/KhanK12
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Removing Barriers for Citizen Participation to Urban Innovation
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2018
The Hackable City
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In this chapter, we describe how a smart city project in Milton Keynes, UK, is supporting multiple stages of citizen innovation, from ideation to citizen-led smart city projects. ...
The potential of open data as a resource for driving citizen-led urban innovation relies not only on a suitable technical infrastructure but also on the skills and knowledge of the citizens themselves. ...
they have to shape the cities they live in. ...
doi:10.1007/978-981-13-2694-3_8
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Citizen Science and Citizen Energy Communities: A Systematic Review and Potential Alliances for SDGs
2020
Sustainability
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Cities and Communities, 13: Climate Action, and 17: Partnerships for the Goals. ...
Our searches for "citizen science" and "energy" produced limited results and "citizen science" and "energy communities" produced zero. ...
For example, Bruce Baer Arnold outlines the challenge that citizen scientists face when attempting to collect, analyze, integrate, and disseminate environmental data from public and private sources. ...
doi:10.3390/su122310096
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Cities in Citizens' Hands
2015
Procedia Computer Science
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Thus, it aims to facilitate new levels of empowerment of users in the use of digital systems and data. ...
Our approach is based on leveraging the rich diversity of meaning associated with cultural gestures, traditions, folklore, and rituals, and using them in augmented reality systems, in order for citizens ...
This work is financed by the FCT -Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) within project UID/EEA/50014/2013. ...
doi:10.1016/j.procs.2015.09.288
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Citizen Sensing for Improved Urban Environmental Monitoring
2016
Journal of Sensors
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With the emergence and rapid development of sensor technologies, citizens potentially have more powerful tools to collect data and generate information to understand their living environment. ...
The paper focuses on a case study of Amsterdam Smart Citizens Lab using NO2sensors for air quality monitoring. ...
Acknowledgments The valuable support of Huib ...
doi:10.1155/2016/5656245
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Large scale regional citizen surveys report (D1.4)
2022
Zenodo
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Approximately 2.000 citizens per region were interviewed, and the outcomes from the analysis resulted in the identification of challenges in each region associated with: (i) citizens and societal engagement ...
in designing open and inclusive territorial R&I ecosystems; (ii) the factors associated with openness and inclusiveness in Regional Dilemma; and (iii) what are the (unstructured) weak societal signals ...
stakeholder group in the three different areas of smart cities, smart transport and smart energy. ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.5918426
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Deconstructing citizen science – Analysis of communication about, from and within citizen science
2020
Zenodo
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This paper-based thesis asks the question: What is the understanding and relevance of citizen science and how can we capture the concept of science communication in citizen science? ...
Science communication and citizen science span far more than conventional uni-directional communication between science and society - as conceptualised in the so called deficit model. ...
citizens to collect local data and to participate in the BirdLife Hungary network; prizes given for best data provider, best photo provider, etc. ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.4439688
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