About
I remember walking along a Tokyo street in about 2000 and remarking to a colleague that maybe we could do something along the lines of "urban computing". Then I pretty much forgot about it. Now I'm in an EPSRC-funded project called Cityware, with colleagues from U. Bath, The Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL, Imperial College, Vodafone and Nokia. We're investigating the notion of the city as a system: how to embed computational architecture in urban places. I'm joint leader of the sub-theme of Security, Privacy and Trust.
Visit www.cityware.org.uk for more information.
The City As A System
Two slides in a talk I give to illustrate thinking of Cities as systems:
Cityware publications
- Measuring trust in WiFi hotspots, Tim Kindberg, Eamonn O'Neill, Chris Bevan, Vassilis Kostakos, Danae Stanton-Fraser, Tim Jay. In proceedings CHI 2008.
- Merolyn the Phone: a study of Bluetooth naming practices, Tim Kindberg and Tim Jones. In proceedings Ubicomp 2007, Innsbruck, Austria, pp. 318–335.
- Instrumenting the city: developing methods for observing and understanding the digital cityscape. Eamonn O'Neill, Vassilis Kostakos, Tim Kindberg, Ava Fatah gen. Schiek, Alan Penn, Danaë Stanton Fraser and Tim Jones. In proceedings Ubicomp 2006.