Riassunto
This book contains the papers presented at the second KyotoWorkshop on Digital Cities that took place in October 2001. This was the third in a series of three related confer- ces. The previous conferences were the KyotoWorkshop on Communityware and Social Interaction in 1998, and the ?rst KyotoWorkshop on Digital Cities, in September 1999. Together they have contributed to the advancement of the research on digital cities, one of the research topics within the emerging ?eld of ‘social informatics’. Themeetingaimedatimprovingourunderstandingofthecurrentstatusandfutureof thoseclassesofsystemsthatcanbesubsumedundertheheadingofdigitalcity.Whatare feasiblemodelsfordigitalcities?Whatdoexperimentswithdigitalcitiesteachus?What new technologies for digital cities emerge? The meeting aimed at encouraging research and practical activities in this ?eld, and enabled the interaction between computer sci- tists, social scientists, and enlightened practitioners, engaged with digital cities. Topics of discussion were design and analysis, theoretical perspectives on digital cities, ex- riments with digital cities and with community networks, applications of digital cities, user studies, visualization, (mobile) technologies for digital cities, social interaction and communityware, user involvement in digital cities and community networks, and or- nizational and business models for digital cities.
Contenuti
Introduction: Digital Cities Research and Open Issues.- Introduction: Digital Cities Research and Open Issues.- Concepts and Theory.- Little Boxes, Glocalization, and Networked Individualism.- Privacy, Predictability or Serendipity and Digital Cities.- Regularities in the Formation and Evolution of Information Cities.- Communication of Social Agents and the Digital City — A Semiotic Perspective.- Politics of the Digital City Movement.- Digital Cities and Digital Citizens.- Designing Democratic Community Networks: Involving Communities through Civil Participation.- TeleCities — Digital Cities Network.- Urbana-Champaign.- The Camfield Estates-MIT Creating Community Connections Project: Strategies for Active Participation in a Low- to Moderate-Income Community.- Community Websites as a Local Communication Network: “Directory Westfield”, an Experience Report.- Ennis Information Age Town: Virtuality Rooted in Reality.- Feasibility Study of Digital Community through Virtual Enterprise Network.- Knowledge-Based Economic Services Supported by Digital Experiments.- Evaluations.- Community Network Development: A Dialectical View.- The Complexity of Using Commercial Forces to Counteract the Digital Divide: A Case Study of the TUC of Sweden.- Lessons Learned: Social Interaction in Virtual Environments.- Worlds Apart: Exclusion-Processes in DDS.- Log Analysis of Map-Based Web Page Search on Digital City Kyoto.- Architectures for Digital Cities.- Connecting Digital and Physical Cities.- Twin Worlds: Augmenting, Evaluating, and Studying Three-Dimensional Digital Cities and Their Evolving Communities.- Creating City Community Consanguinity: Use of Public Opinion Channel in Digital Cities.- Agent-Based Coordination of Regional Information Services.- Realization of Digital Environmental Education — A Future Style of Environmental Education in Dynamically Changing Virtual Environment —.- Technologies for Digital Cities.- A 3-D Photo Collage System for Spatial Navigations.- Study on Mobile Passenger Support Systems for Public Transportation Using Multi-channel Data Dissemination.- Spatial Information Sharing for Mobile Phones.- Agents in the World of Active Web-Services.- Town Digitizing for Building an Image-Based Cyber Space.- Language Design for Rescue Agents.- Urban Pilot A Handheld City Guide That Maps Personal and Collective Experiences through Social Networks.
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