A review and reframing of participatory urban dashboards

O Lock, T Bednarz, SZ Leao, C Pettit - City, Culture and Society, 2020 - Elsevier
Urban dashboards form part of a wider ecosystem of urban data platforms and products
being created and used in an age of ever-increasing digitalisation of city services and …

Blending pop-up urbanism and participatory technologies: Challenges and opportunities for inclusive city making

J Fredericks, L Hespanhol, C Parker, D Zhou… - City, culture and …, 2018 - Elsevier
This article investigates the use of participatory technologies for augmenting urban
governance by giving citizens and local communities a voice in the city making process. We …

Middle-out design: collaborative community engagement in urban HCI

J Fredericks, GA Caldwell, M Tomitsch - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents a collaborative approach for designing, implementing and deploying
situated urban HCI interventions. It draws on field studies that use HCI technologies for …

Public displays and citizen participation: a systematic literature review and research agenda

A Clarinval, A Simonofski, B Vanderose… - … : People, Process and …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this research is to study how current research reports reflect on
using public displays in the smart city. In particular, it looks at the state-of-the-art of this …

TextPursuits: using text for pursuits-based interaction and calibration on public displays

M Khamis, O Saltuk, A Hang, K Stolz… - Proceedings of the 2016 …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
In this paper we show how reading text on large display can be used to enable gaze
interaction in public space. Our research is motivated by the fact that much of the content on …

Empowerment approaches in digital civics

S Cazacu, NB Hansen, B Schouten - Proceedings of the 32nd Australian …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The pace and magnitude of recent advancements in digital technologies have set the scene
for a complete transformation of our citizenship experience. In the past, HCI research has …

[PDF][PDF] The city as perpetual beta: Fostering systemic urban acupuncture

J Fredericks, GA Caldwell, M Foth… - The hackable city …, 2019 - library.oapen.org
Applying the concept of perpetual beta to cities proposes a continual and never complete
process of city-making. Building on this notion, this chapter employs a conceptual framework …

The role of digital screens in urban life: New opportunities for placemaking

M Tomitsch, I McArthur, MH Haeusler… - Citizen's right to the digital …, 2015 - Springer
Large digital screens are becoming prevalent across today's cities dispersing into everyday
urban spaces, such as public squares and cultural precincts. Examples, such as Federation …

Does the public still look at public displays? A field observation of public displays in the wild

C Parker, M Tomitsch, J Kay - Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Public displays are widely used for displaying information in public space, such as shop**
centres. They are typically programmed to display advertisements or general information …

“I never realized sidewalks were a big deal”: A Case Study of a Community-Driven Sidewalk Accessibility Assessment using Project Sidewalk

C Li, KOY Ma, M Saugstad, K Fujii, M Delaney… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Despite decades of effort, pedestrian infrastructure in cities continues to be unsafe or
inaccessible to people with disabilities. In this paper, we examine the potential of community …