Digital technologies are changing how and where we live, work and socialize. Rural areas
are distinctive spaces and places but in the current debates of new digital phenomena …

Citizen sensing is an approach that develops and uses lightweight technologies with local
communities to collect, share and act upon data. In doing so it enables them to become …

Public display deployments are often subjected to various surprising and unwanted effects.
These effects are frequently due to external factors properties and phenomena that are …

Although emergency services have already recognized the importance of citizen-initiated
activities during disasters, still questions with regard to the coordination of spontaneous …

As research increasingly turns to work'in the wild'to design and evaluate technologies under
real-world conditions, little consideration has been given to what happens when research …

Fueled by falling display hardware costs and rising demand, digital signage and pervasive
displays are becoming ever more ubiquitous. Such systems have traditionally been used for …

This study focuses on the appropriation process of two public computing infrastructures in
the City of Oulu, Finland, a municipal WiFi network and large interactive displays. We …

This work presents an architecture to help designing and deploying smart mobility
applications. The proposed solution builds on the experience already matured by the …

The civic potential of pervasive computing technologies has been increasingly explored
within academic and urban planning communities. One vision is of communities and cities …

Despite widespread interest in civic technologies, empowering neighbourhoods to take
advantage of these technologies in their local area remains challenging. This paper …