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Who's there?: experience-driven design of urban interaction using a tangible user interface

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Leena Ventä-Olkkonen,

Marianne Kinnula,

Graham Dean,

Tobias Stockinger,

Claudia ZúñigaAuthors Info & Claims

MUM '13: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

Article No.: 49, Pages 1 - 2

https://doi.org/10.1145/2541831.2541878

Published: 02 December 2013 Publication History

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During recent years public displays relying on new types of display technologies have made their way to the city scene. In this paper, we present a concept that combines tangible interfaces with such ubiquitous urban interaction. We set out to create a tangible connection between different cities and employed an experience-driven design process towards our concept called 'Who's There?'. We evaluated the concept by using a cardboard prototype with a group of fifteen users in a busy market square, where it generated considerable engagement and discussion with members of the public.

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MUM '13: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

December 2013

333 pages

ISBN:9781450326483

DOI:10.1145/2541831

General Chairs:
Matthias Kranz
Universität Passau, Germany
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Kåre Synnes
Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
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Program Chairs:
Sebastian Boring
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Kristof Van Laerhoven
TU Darmstadt, Germany

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van Leeuwen JHermans KJylhä AQuanjer ANijman HFatah gen. Schieck AColangelo DZhigang C(2018)Effectiveness of Virtual Reality in Participatory Urban PlanningProceedings of the 4th Media Architecture Biennale Conference10.1145/3284389.3284491(128-136)Online publication date: 13-Nov-2018
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