Digital Placemaking: Augmenting Physical Places with
Contextual Social Data
May 26, 2015
Oxford, UK
More information available here <http://digitalplacemaking.apps-1and1.com/> or below.
People have embraced social media as a means to express their experiences within and knowledge about particular places, and researchers have continued to analyze these digital traces in order to better understand social activities within particular places. Geo-tagged social media data such as photos, tweets, check-ins, audio, video, and status updates have proliferated and reveal individual and collective senses of place and local insights into interactions between people and place. However, these digital traces alone cannot reveal a holistic sense of place and placemaking.
One of the key goals of the workshop is to create a hands on experience and encourage participants from a variety of backgrounds to discover, share, and interact with experimental techniques of data gathering and urban sensing. The Digital Placemaking Workshop fosters discussions covering topics such as (but not limited to):
People have embraced social media as a means to express their experiences within and knowledge about particular places, and researchers have continued to analyze these digital traces in order to better understand social activities within particular places. Geo-tagged social media data such as photos, tweets, check-ins, audio, video, and status updates have proliferated and reveal individual and collective senses of place and local insights into interactions between people and place. However, these digital traces alone cannot reveal a holistic sense of place and placemaking.
One of the key goals of the workshop is to create a hands on experience and encourage participants from a variety of backgrounds to discover, share, and interact with experimental techniques of data gathering and urban sensing. The Digital Placemaking Workshop fosters discussions covering topics such as (but not limited to):
- Use of social media to engage communities in placemaking activities and participatory design
- Mobilizing and exhibiting place and placemaking efforts through social media
- Improving understandings of place and space through mining social media
- Pervasive applications for local user interaction and data collection
- Methodological advances in contextual understandings of social media outputs across space & place
- Use of social media to inform design and planning practices
- Role of social media in expressing or altering a sense of place or aiding in the understanding of everyday functionalities of regions, spaces and places
- Enabling citizen, artist, government, and NGO initiatives through social media
- Visualizations and interfaces to enable exploration and sharing of local data and experiences
- Privacy and ethical concerns in citizen engagement
We accept two types of submissions: (1) original research or work-in-progress and (2) project idea around digital placemaking that might be developed as part of this workshop.
Paper submission deadline: March 13, 2015
All contributions must be submitted as PDF files. Submissions will be evaluated by the organizers and Program Committee. The workshop accepts novel research or work-in-progress papers (no longer than 4 pages) or position papers (no longer than 2 pages). All papers must be submitted by the deadlines provided below and formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style (see the author instructions page). All submitted papers will be reviewed and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation by the Program Committee. All accepted submissions must be presented during the workshop.
Please submit papers through EasyChair:
*https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=digitalplacemaking20
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=digitalplacemaking20> *
*Organizers:*
Germaine Halegoua, University of Kansas
Raz Schwartz, Facebook Research
Ed Manley, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London
