Contextual design research towards a new relationship among space, people and technology in a smart city Assunta Matassa, Rossana Simeoni

Contextual design research towards a new relationship among space, people and technology in a smart city Assunta Matassa, Rossana Simeoni

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  Contextual design researchtowards a new relationship among space, people and technology in a smart city Assunta Matassa University of Torino [email protected] Rossana Simeoni Telecom Italia Innovation [email protected]
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  The HYBRID SPACEis a place in which technologies, physical and digital infrastructure and citizens cohabit. A city is SMART when investments in human and social capital and traditional and ICT fuel sustainable economic development and a high quality of life, with a wise management of natural resources, through participatory action and engagement. (Caragliu et al. 2009).
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  How to createan hybrid space focusing on human beings?
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  OUR EXPERIMENT Components • Urbanspace • Wearable computing • People
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  METHOD Contextual semi-structured interviews about: •use of bike • relation with environment • adoption of technologies
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  RESULTS • A deeperand inner relation with space and time • Bike as a new symbiotic experience
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  people, feelings, emotions,moods in the space Coming back to definition of hybrid space…
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  Using bike, peopleare able to define a new emotional cartography in urban space 2. Technology improves the capability of human being 1. Body becomes a new interface to interact in space
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  Critical design approachhelps us to focus on body and technology and encourage people to enter in a more intimate contact with inside and outside space
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  Critical design approachstimulates a creative sensibility in people to perceive their relation with place, people and to create a bridge with them
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  • Engage and encouragepeople to take care of surrounding environment • People’ awareness about the importance of space in their life • Improve relation between human and space using body technologies What we obtain until now
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  What we expectto obtain A stronger definition of hybrid citizen, able to establish a deep bond stressing feelings, emotions, moods in the space exploiting power of body experience
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  • People, technology,space: orientation and different direction Open Issues • The Body is Obsolete?
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  Stelarc speaks ofthe obsolete body. He means that the body must to be considered as an extendible evolutionary structure enhanced with the most disparate technologies, which are more precise, accurate and powerful. "Technology is what defines the meaning of being human, it's part of being human. Especially living in the information age, the body is biologically inadequate […]Electronic space becomes a medium of action rather than information".
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  ACKNOWLEDGE • All imagesused derived from Robert Doisneau photographer. • Only the last slide derives from Stelarc’s works. ! Thank you for attention!