As the world's population is becoming progressively urban-dwelling, sustainable
development challenges are increasingly concentrated in cities, placing tremendous …

Many Smart City projects are beginning to consider the role of citizens. However, current
methods for engaging urban populations in participatory design (PD) activities are …

Recent design research has shown an interest in diffraction and agential realism, which
promise to offer generative alternatives when designing with data that resist treating data as …

Smart cities continue to be conceived and implemented around the world as literature
documenting these trends grows at a similar pace. Practices focused on narrow techno …

Empirical studies invariably show that data generation is situationally contingent and
interpretively flexible, even when data is collected automatically. This essay situates data …

In a context of mistrust in public health institutions and practices, anti-COVID/vaccination
protests and the storming of Congress have illustrated that conspiracy theories are real and …

" Smart city" narratives promise IoT data-driven innovations leveraging biosensing
technologies. We argue this overlooks a potential benefit of city living: affirmation. We …

Digital civics research seeks to understand how technology can create new forms of
relationships and services between public officials and citizens in governance. To …

Urban environmental monitoring campaigns depend on expertise from city agencies,
residents, and researchers. Deployment efforts rarely include all three stakeholders, typically …

This research sheds light on the relationship between the presence of location-based social
network (LBSN) data and other economic and demographic variables in the city of Valencia …