Mauro Martino

Obama One Peopl | BT England | syn(C)ity | The Cloud | Ocean Of Information | Senseable City | Air Sage Massachusets | Belgium | Copenhagen | Eigenplace | Epidemical Spread | Mobile Camera Casts

  Looking at the Digital Skin of urban spaces one identifies emerging patterns of human behavior. There are no models to understand and decode the meaning of these patterns, but research on the implicit interaction of the population with the urban actor can produce a rich understanding of the social systems. The Digital Skin clearly illustrates information generated by group of people and different patterns within this information. They are a first step in revealing collective patterns of social dynamics, and data such as call activity can offer insights into how people inhabit the city at different times and locations.
 Having the results of these analyses in real time, urban planners would be able to promptly detect that reduce the livability and sustainability of the city: instead of planning urban interventions and waiting months to evaluate their impact, they could switch to a more reactive, real-time management of the city. Moreover, these kinds of visualizations, if accessed through an appropriate interface, could also be of value to the urban dwellers themselves. The ultimate goal of this work is to build urban interfaces where people can deposit and extract information on the functions of the city in real time and thus work together to build more efficient, intelligent and sustainable cities.

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