Underground Aesthetics: Rethinking Urban Computing

Underground Aesthetics: Rethinking Urban Computing

An ethnographic study and a design proposal for a situated music-exchange application suggest how explicitly foregrounding the experiential qualities of urban life can help rethink urban computing design. In this article, through reflection on the ethnographic study results and the undersound design...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE pervasive computing 2007-07, Vol.6 (3), p.39-45
Hauptverfasser: Bassoli, A., Brewer, J., Martin, K., Dourish, P., Mainwaring, S.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Cities and towns
Computation
Computer applications
Global Positioning System
Information resources
Instruments
mobile communication
Mobile computing
music sharing
Navigation
Proposals
Reflection
situated design
Space technology
system analysis and design
ubiquitous computing
Underground
urban computing
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Zusammenfassung:An ethnographic study and a design proposal for a situated music-exchange application suggest how explicitly foregrounding the experiential qualities of urban life can help rethink urban computing design. In this article, through reflection on the ethnographic study results and the undersound design, how an aesthetic account of urban life might be the basis of designs that support not only an individual but also a collective experience of the city is explored.
ISSN:1536-1268
1558-2590
DOI:10.1109/MPRV.2007.68