Pervasive and Affordable technologies for Civic Engagement

The project will deploy a model of interaction ecosystem that will guide the development of participative experiences describing the human, technical and contextual factors that have to be considered. It will be validated through technological interventions that will be co-designed with stakeholders. Two case studies are planned. (1) An early warning knowledge ecosystem that will make it possible to integrate citizen generated information in a sense making process whilst generating risk awareness (2) A playable city scenario where citizens engage in informal, social and situated learning activities in physical spaces. Studies on the affordances that technologies provide on appropriate interaction design techniques for pervasive and augmented scenarios will be conducted to provide design guidelines.

Objectives:

The PACE project is aimed at identifying the possibilities, opportunities, and challenges that gamification and social computing can add to ubiquitous augmented ecosystems to motivate citizen engagement in the context of Playable and Smart Cities. The project will advance in understanding better the affordances and outcomes that technologies might bring to specific scenarios and in an affordable way, understanding affordable from a cognitive, usability and socio-economic point of view.

Related publications:

• Álvaro Montero Montes, Telmo Zarraonandia, Paloma Díaz, Ignacio Aedo :"Creating Interactive and Realistic Augmented Reality Experiences" ,International Conference on Human Computer Interaction ,ACM (2016-09-01) ,17 .
• Telmo Zarraonandia, Paloma Díaz, Álvaro Montero Montes, Ignacio Aedo :"Exploring the Benefits of Immersive End User Development for Virtual Reality" ,in San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Gran Canaria, Spain ,Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence: 10th International Conference, UCAmI 2016 ,Springer International Publishing (2016-11-29) ,450-462 .
• Paloma Díaz, Teresa Onorati, Ignacio Aedo :"A Digital Knowledge Ecosystem to Increase Participation in Emergency Warnings and Alerts Management" ,Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing - 12th International Conference (2017-05-12) ,700-711 URL.
• Belen Carrión, Teresa Onorati, Paloma Díaz, Vasiliki Triga :"A taxonomy generation tool for semantic visual analysis of large corpus of documents" ,Springer US (2019-12-01) ,78 ,32919 .
• Paloma Díaz, Telmo Zarraonandia, Mónica Sánchez de Francisco, Ignacio Aedo, Teresa Onorati :"Do Low Cost Virtual Reality Devices Support Learning Acquisition? A comparative study of two different VR devices" ,XX International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (2019-06-25) ,1-8 URL.
• Mónica Sánchez de Francisco, Paloma Díaz, Federico Fabiano, Ignacio Aedo :"Engaging Users with an AR Pervasive Game for Personal Urban Awareness" ,XX International Conference on Human Computer Interaction ,ACM (2019-06-25) ,6 URL.
• Teresa Onorati, Paloma Díaz, Belén Carrión :"From social networks to emergency operation centers: A semantic visualization approach" ,Elsevier (2019-06-01) ,95 ,829-840 URL.
• Álvaro Montero Montes, Telmo Zarraonandia, Paloma Díaz, Ignacio Aedo :"Designing and implementing interactive and realistic augmented reality experiences" ,Springer (2019-01-01) ,18 ,49-61 URL.
• Telmo Zarraonandia, Paloma Díaz, Álvaro Montero Montes, Ignacio Aedo, Teresa Onorati :"Using a Google Glass-Based Classroom Feedback System to Improve Students to Teacher Communication" ,IEEE (2019-01-21) ,7 ,16837 URL.
• Teresa Onorati, Paloma Díaz, Telmo Zarraonandia, Ignacio Aedo :"The Immersive Bubble Chart: a Semantic and Virtual Reality Visualization for Big Data" ,The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Adjunct Proceedings ,ACM (2018-10-11) ,176-178 URL.
• Marco Romano, Paloma Díaz, Ignacio Aedo :"A gamified platform for civic engagement in early warning" ,XIX International Conference on Human Computer Interaction ,ACM (2018-09-12) ,1-8 URL.
• Andrés Santos Torres, Telmo Zarraonandia, Paloma Díaz, Ignacio Aedo :"Exploring interaction mechanisms for map interfaces in virtual reality environments" ,XIX International Conference on Human Computer Interaction ,ACM (2018-09-12) ,1-7 URL.
• Federico Fabiano, Mónica Sánchez de Francisco, Paloma Díaz, Ignacio Aedo :"Evaluating a pervasive game for urban awareness" ,MobileHCI '18: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (2018-09-01) ,197-204 URL.
• Alejandro Ossorio Arroyo, Teresa Onorati, Paloma Díaz :"Quality Assessment of Social Media: Lessons Learnt from the Literature" ,2018 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV) ,IEEE (2018-07-10) ,278-283 URL.
• Belén Carrión, Teresa Onorati, Paloma Díaz :"Designing a Semi-automatic Taxonomy Generation Tool" ,2018 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV) ,IEEE (2018-07-10) ,266-271 URL.
• Andrés Santos Torres, Telmo Zarraonandia, Paloma Díaz, Ignacio Aedo :"A virtual reality map interface for geographical information systems" ,The 2018 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces ,ACM (2018-05-29) ,1-3 URL.
• Mónica Sánchez de Francisco, Paloma Díaz, Ignacio Aedo :"Improving urban environment awareness through pervasive AR games" ,The 2018 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces ,ACM (2018-05-25) ,1-3 URL.
• Paloma Díaz, Teresa Onorati, Marco Romano, Ignacio Aedo :"Designing Affordable Technologies to Integrate Citizens in Early Warning Activities" ,The 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2018) (2018-01-01) ,2 ,1253 URL.