DocumentCode :
2414993
Title :
Controlling, Integrating, and Engaging Context in Urban Computing Research
Author :
Reilly, D.F. ; Inkpen, K.M. ; Watters, C.R.
Author_Institution :
Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, NS
fYear :
2009
fDate :
5-8 Jan. 2009
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
10
Abstract :
Understanding the interplay between technology and urban life is the basic question of urban computing research. In addition to using context to achieve realism in evaluation, urban computing studies often need to consider context of use outright as an element under study. Doing so requires new ways of thinking about context that may not fit neatly into traditional categories of experimental design. In this paper we present our experiences in attempting to manage context in studies involving urban way finding and other social spatial activities. We reflect on our attempts to treat context as a set of controllable factors, to integrate some uncontrolled aspects of context into our experiments, and to engage contextual realism outright. The paper concludes with recommendations for managing context in urban computing study design based on these experiences.
Keywords :
town and country planning; context management; social spatial activity; urban computing; urban life; Bridges; Collaboration; Computational modeling; Context modeling; Control systems; Design for experiments; Home computing; Navigation; Roads; Visualization;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 2009. HICSS '09. 42nd Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Big Island, HI
ISSN :
1530-1605
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3450-3
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2009.132
Filename :
4755509
Link To Document :
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