Abstract
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and mobile devices are deeply influencing all facets of life, directly affecting the way people experience space and time. ICTs are also tools for supporting urban development, and they have also been adopted as equipment for furnishing public spaces. Hence, ICTs have created a new paradigm of hybrid space that can be defined as Senseable Spaces. Even if there are relevant cases where the adoption of ICT has made the use of public open spaces more “smart”, the interrelation and the recognition of added value need to be further developed. This is one of the motivations for the research presented in this paper. The main goal of the work reported here is the deployment of a system composed of three different connected elements (a real-world infrastructure, a data gathering system, and a data processing and analysis platform) for analysis of human behavior in the open space of Cardeto Park, in Ancona, Italy. For this purpose, and because of the complexity of this task, several actions have been carried out: the deployment of a complete real-world infrastructure in Cardeto Park, the implementation of an ad-hoc smartphone application for the gathering of participants’ data, and the development of a data pre-processing and analysis system for dealing with all the gathered data. A detailed description of these three aspects and the way in which they are connected to create a unique system is the main focus of this paper.
Highlights
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and mobile devices, as a key achievement of human being, are profoundly influencing all facets of life
ICTs have created a new paradigm of hybrid space that can be defined as Senseable Spaces
The main goal of the work reported here is the deployment of a system composed of three different connected elements for analysis of human behavior in the open space of Cardeto Park, in Ancona, Italy
Summary
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and mobile devices, as a key achievement of human being, are profoundly influencing all facets of life. The application reported (the CyberCardeto app) has been developed and tested in a real scenario in order to validate the feasibility of the mentioned paradigm of Senseable Spaces, both in terms of giving and receiving information to and from the users In this light, the main objective of this research work, conducted in the context of the European COST Action TU1306—Cyberparks, is the deployment of a system composed of three different connected elements (a real-world infrastructure, a data gathering system, and a data processing and analysis platform) in the open space of Cardeto Park, in Ancona, Italy. The paper concludes with some brief conclusions and further research topics (Section 7)
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