Logo des Repositoriums

Auflistung nach Schlagwort "Smart cities"

1 - 7 von 7
  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    The citizen in the smart city. How the smart city could transform citizenship
    (it - Information Technology: Vol. 59, No. 6, 2017) de Waal, Martijn; Dignum, Marloes
    Smart city-policy makers and technology vendors are increasingly stating they want to bring about citizen-centered smart cities. Yet, it often remains unclear what exactly that means, and how citizens are envisaged as actors in smart cities. This article wants to contribute to this discussion by exploring the relation between smart cities and citizenship. It aims to do this by introducing a heuristic scheme that brings out the implied notions of citizenship in three distinct sets of smart city visions and practices: The Control Room envisages the city as a collection of infrastructures and services; The Creative City views the city from the perspective of (economic) geography and ponders on local and regional systems of innovation; The Smart Citizens discourse addresses the city as a political and civic community. These smart city discourses are mapped against two visions on citizenship and governance taken from political philosophy. A `republican' perspective with strong presence in social-democratic countries is contrasted with a libertarian one, most prominent in Silicon Valley approaches to smart city technologies. This provides a scheme to reflect on potential benefits and downsides if a specific smart city discourse would develop. Instances of smart cities may promote notions of citizenship that are based on consumer choice and individual responsibility, alternatively they could also reinforce collective responsibilities towards the common good of society.
  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    Current topics and challenges in geoAI
    (KI - Künstliche Intelligenz: Vol. 37, No. 1, 2023) Richter, Kai-Florian; Scheider, Simon
    Taken literally, geoAI is the use of Artificial Intelligence methods and techniques in solving geo-spatial problems. Similar to AI more generally, geoAI has seen an influx of new (big) data sources and advanced machine learning techniques, but also a shift in the kind of problems under investigation. In this article, we highlight some of these changes and identify current topics and challenges in geoAI.
  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    Einsatz von XR zur Belebung von Leerständen
    (HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik: Vol. 61, No. 5, 2024) Küffmann, Karin
    Virtuelle und Augmented Reality (VR/AR) sind als innovative Technologien vielseitig einsetzbar. Sowohl im Online-, aber auch im stationären Handel sind schon etliche innovative immersive Anwendungen entstanden, die neue kognitive und affektive Interaktions- und Informationsmöglichkeiten bieten. In den Bereichen Kunst, Immobilien, Architektur, Gaming, Fashion, Stadtplanung und -führungen finden sich ebenfalls mehr und mehr AR/VR Anwendungen. In diesem Beitrag wird nach einer Sichtung ausgewählter immersiver Projekte ein Konzept zur Nutzung von AR bzw. VR für Leerstände in einer ehemals attraktiven Einkaufsmeile vorgestellt. Neben gängigen Technologien und der Interoperabilität liegt der Fokus auf Belebung, Interaktion und Vernetzung der bestehenden Akteure eines Stadtteils. Die Leerstände sollen technologisch und thematisch vielseitig möglichst als Mitmachkonzept für viele Beteiligte mit XR belebt werden und so einen Beitrag zur Revitalisierung des Viertels leisten. Virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) are innovative technologies that can be applied in many ways. A number of innovative immersive applications have already been created in both online and stationary retail, offering a lot of new possibilities for interaction and information. More and more VR/AR applications can be found in the fields of arts, fashion, real estate, architecture, city planning and guided tours. In this paper, after a review of selected immersive projects, a concept for the use of AR or VR for vacant spaces in a formerly attractive shopping street is presented. In addition to common technologies and interoperability, the focus lies on revitalisation, interaction and networking of existing actors in a district. The vacancies should be brought to life with XR in a technologically and thematically diverse way, if possible as a participatory concept for many stakeholders, and thus contribute to the revitalisation of the district.
  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    Exploring the Motives of Citizen Reporting Engagement: Self-Concern and Other-Orientation
    (Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 60, No. 3, 2018) Abu-Tayeh, Gabriel; Neumann, Oliver; Stuermer, Matthias
    In smart city contexts, voluntary citizen reporting can be a particularly valuable source of information for local authorities. A key question in this regard is what motivates citizens to contribute their data. Drawing on motivation research in social psychology, the paper examines the question of whether self-concern or other-orientation is a stronger driver of citizen reporting engagement. To test their hypotheses, the authors rely on a sample of users from the mobile application “Zurich as good as new� in Switzerland, which enables citizens to report damages in and other issues with the city’s infrastructure. Data was collected from two different sources: motivation was assessed in an online user survey (n = 650), whereas citizen reporting engagement was measured by the number of reports per user from real platform-use data. The analysis was carried out using negative binomial regression. The findings suggest that both self-concern and other-orientation are significant drivers of citizen reporting engagement, although the effect of self-concern appears to be stronger in comparison. As such, this study contributes to a better understanding of what motivates citizens to participate in citizen reporting platforms, which are a cornerstone application in many smart cities.
  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    Hearing the Voice of Citizens in Smart City Design: The CitiVoice Framework
    (Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 61, No. 6, 2019) Simonofski, Anthony; Asensio, Estefanía Serral; Smedt, Johannes; Snoeck, Monique
    In the last few years, smart cities have attracted considerable attention because they are considered a response to the complex challenges that modern cities face. However, smart cities often do not optimally reach their objectives if the citizens, the end-users, are not involved in their design. The aim of this paper is to provide a framework to structure and evaluate citizen participation in smart cities. By means of a literature review from different research areas, the relevant enablers of citizen participation are summarized and bundled in the proposed CitiVoice framework. Then, following the design science methodology, the content and the utility of CitiVoice are validated through the application to different smart cities and through in-depth interviews with key Belgian smart city stakeholders. CitiVoice is used as an evaluation tool for several Belgian smart cities allowing drawbacks and flaws in citizens' participation to be discovered and analyzed. It is also demonstrated how CitiVoice can act as a governance tool for the ongoing smart city design of Namur (Belgium) to help define the citizen participation strategy. Finally, it is used as a comparison and creativity tool to compare several cities and design new means of participation.
  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    Sharing Yet Caring - Mitigating Moral Hazard in Access-Based Consumption through IS-Enabled Value Co-Capturing with Consumers
    (Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 60, No. 3, 2018) Hildebrandt, Björn; Hanelt, Andre; Firk, Sebastian
    The quest for creating smart and sustainable cities entails various substantial challenges, such as environmental degradation and a shortage of space. To negotiate these hurdles, innovative approaches must be implemented. A key aspect in this regard is the shared use of resources via forms of access-based consumption. Owing to advances in the digitalization of contemporary societies, these concepts have recently attracted both consumer and scholarly interest. However, the digitally enabled separation of ownership and use brings along the risk of moral hazard by consumers using resources in careless or wasteful ways, which is detrimental to the sustainability of the overall system. In this study, the authors conceptualize and empirically investigate how these adverse effects can be mitigated by applying the potentials of connectivity and digital data to enable users to participate economically while acting favorably from a collective perspective. The results of the quasi-experimental research design, situated in a carsharing context and comprising data records of 2,983 bookings, indicate that this form of value co-capturing with consumers can significantly motivate users to alter their behavior. From these findings, the authors derive important implications for research on the sustainability of digital business eco-systems in the specific context of smart cities.
  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    Smart cities, epistemic communities, advocacy coalitions and the 'last mile' problem
    (it - Information Technology: Vol. 59, No. 6, 2017) Kitchin, Rob; Coletta, Claudio; Evans, Leighton; Heaphy, Liam; MacDonncha, Darach
    We argue that the ideas, ideals and the rapid proliferation of smart city rhetoric and initiatives globally have been facilitated and promoted by three inter-related communities: (i) `urban technocrats'; (ii) a smart cities `epistemic community'; (iii) a wider `advocacy coalition'. We examine their roles and the multiscale formation, and why despite their influence they encounter a `last mile problem'; that is, smart city initiatives are yet to become fully mainstreamed. We illustrate this last mile problem through a discussion of plans to introduce smart lighting in Dublin.