Abstract
This special issue of the Journal of Urban Technology brings together five articles that are based on presentations given at the Street Computing Workshop held on 24 November 2009 in Melbourne in conjunction with the Australian Computer-Human Interaction conference (OZCHI 2009). Our own article introduces the Street Computing vision and explores the potential, challenges, and foundations of this research trajectory. In order to do so, we first look at the currently available sources of information and discuss their link to existing research efforts. Section 2 then introduces the notion of Street Computing and our research approach in more detail. Section 3 looks beyond the core concept itself and summarizes related work in this field of interest. We conclude by introducing the papers that have been contributed to this special issue.
Highlights
The integration of information processing technologies into the environment is being investigated from several different perspectives that we discuss further below
The physical city is covered with an increasing number of layers of digital information. These rich sets of information are of increasing importance for decisionmaking processes in councils and local governments and open the possibility to a wide range of future applications and services which are the subject of intensified research efforts
In order to address these challenges we introduce the notion of Street Computing which draws heavily from the existing pool of research
Summary
The integration of information processing technologies into the environment is being investigated from several different perspectives that we discuss further below. For Weiser, the integration of computers into the human environment is essential in order to allow users to interact with this information in a natural way. There are three major elements to our approach: (1) interaction techniques for end-user composition; (2) a framework for composition; and (3) the urban computing substrate.
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