Winter is coming: Introducing climate sensitive urban computing

Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 647-656

  Ylipulli, Johanna ^a   Luusua, Anna ^a   Kukka, Hannu ^a   Ojala, Timo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Climate; ICT; Northern; Theory; Transdisciplinary; Urban; Weather

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; METEOROLOGY; WEATHERING;

CLIMATE; ICT; NORTHERN; THEORY; TRANSDISCIPLINARY; URBAN;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84904480131     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2598510.2598571     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (46)

1. Afanasyev, M., Chen, T., Voelker, G. M. and Snoeren, A. C. Analysis of a mixed-use urban wifi network: when Metropolitan becomes Neapolitan. In Proc. IMC 2008, 85-98.
2. Ahrentzen, S. Community design features that support active living among elderly in a cold-climate community. In Proc. ENHR International Housing Conference 2004, 1-21.
3. Beck, R. A., Eisner, W., Hinkel, K., Pesanti, H., Beiswenger, E., Parke, W., Treadwell, M., Smith, S., Krogh, L., Hansen, K. G. and Peskov, V. Nutarniq: Uniting the arctic community with a wireless arctic network for circumpolar communications. Polar Geography 29, 1(2005), 1-25.
4. Christensen, N. B. Inuit in Cyberspace: Embedding Offline Identities Online. Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen, 2002.
5. Cresswell, T. Place: A Short Introduction. Blackwell, London, 2004.
6. Dourish, P., Anderson, K. and Nafus, D. Cultural mobilities: diversity and agency in urban computing. In Proc. DEGAS 2007, 100-113.
7. Dourish, P. Where the Action is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction. MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2004.
8. Dourish, P. Implications for design. In Proc. CHI 2006, 541-550.
9. Fatah gen. Schieck, A., Schnädelbach, H. and Penn, A. Research in the wild: Exploring the potential of networked urban screens for communities and culture. In DIS 2012 Workshop on Research in the Wild.
10. Frampton, K. Towards a critical regionalism: six points for an architecture of resistance. In Anti-Aesthetic. Essays on Postmodern Culture, ed. Foster H. Bay Press, Seattle, 1983, 16-30.
11. Galloway, A. Intimations of everyday life. Ubiquitous computing and the city. Cultural Studies, 18, 2-3(2004), 384-408.
12. Gaver W., Dunne T. and Pacenti E. Cultural probes. Interactions 6, 1(1999), 21-29.
13. Geertz, G. Thick description: toward an interpretative theory of culture. In: The Interpretation of Cultures, Basic Books, New York, 1973, 3-30.
14. Hill, J. Weather Architecture. Routledge, London, 2012.
15. Hitchcock, H., Johnson, P. (1966). The International Style. W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1997.
16. Howes, D. Introduction. In Empire of the Senses: The Sensory Culture Reader, ed. Howes, D. Berg, Oxford, 2005, 1-17.
17. Katz, J. E. and Satomi S. Mobile phones as fashion statements: The co-creation of mobile communication's public meaning. In Mobile Communications. Renegotiation of the Social Sphere, eds. Ling R. and Pederson P. Springer, London, 2005, 63-81.
18. Kindberg, C., Chalmers, M. and Paulos, E. Guest editor's introduction: Urban computing. IEEE Pervasive Computing 6, 3(2007), 18-20.
19. Kukka, H., Luusua, A., Ylipulli, J., Suopajärvi, T., Kostakos, V. and Ojala, T. From cyberpunk to calm urban computing: Exploring the role of technology in the future cityscape. Technological Forecasting and Social Change [forthcoming; online first 2013].
20. Mänty, J. and Pressman, N. Cities Designed for Winter Building. Book Ltd, Helsinki, 1988.
21. Nicolescu, B. Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity. State of New York Press, New York, 2001.
22. Norberg-Schultz, C. Genius Loci, Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture. Rizzoli, New York, 1980.
23. Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Use of information and communications technology by individuals [epublication]. Statistics Finland, Helsinki, 2013. http://www.tilastokeskus.fi/til/sutivi/index-en.html.
24. Ojala, T., Kostakos, V., Kukka, H., Heikkinen, T., Lindén, T., Jurmu, M., Hosio, S., Kruger, F. and Zanni, D. Multipurpose interactive public displays in the wild: three years later, Computer 45, 5(2012), 42-49.
25. Ojala, T., Orajärvi, J., Puhakka, K., Heikkinen, I. and Heikka, J. panOULU: Triple helix driven municipal wireless network providing open and free Internet access. In Proc. C&T 2011, 118-127.
26. Olgyay, V. and Olgyay, A. Design with Climate. Bioclimatic Approach to Architectural Regionalism. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 1963.
27. Pallasmaa, J. The Eyes of the Skin. Architecture and the Senses. John Wiley, New York, 2005.
28. Peterson, N. and Broad, K. Climate and weather discourse in anthropology: from determinism to uncertain futures. In Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions, eds. Crate, S. and Nuttall, M. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, 2009, 70-86.
29. Pfaffenberger, B. Social anthropology of technology. Annual Review of Anthropology 21, 1992, 491-516.
30. Pink, S. Doing Sensory Ethnography. Sage, London, 2009.
31. Pirinen, P., Simola, H., Aalto, J., Kaukoranta, J-P., Karlsson, P. and Ruuhela, R. Tilastoja Suomen Ilmastosta 1981-2010. The Finnish Meteorological Institute 1 (2012).
32. Pressman, N. Sustainable winter cities: Future directions for planning, policy and design. In Atmospheric Environment 30, (1996), 521-529.
33. Rayner, S. Domesticating nature: Commentary on the anthropological study of weather and climate discourse. In Weather, Climate, Culture, eds. Strauss S. and Orlove, B. Berg, New York, 2003, 277-290.
34. Rohinton, E. An Urban Approach to Climate Sensitive Design: Strategies for the Tropics. Taylor & Francis, London, 2005.
35. Sellen, A., Rogers, Y., Harper, R. and Rodden, T. Reflecting human values in the digital age. Communications of ACM 52, 3(2009), 58-66.
36. De Souza e Silva, A. From cyber to hybrid: Mobile technologies as interfaces of hybrid spaces. Space and Culture 9(2006), 261-278.
37. Subramony, D. P. Understanding the complex dimensions of the digital divide: Lessons learned in the Alaskan Arctic. The Journal of Negro Education 76, 1(2007), 57-67.
38. Suchman, L. Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2007.
39. Suopajärvi, S., Ylipulli, J. and Kinnunen, T. "Realities behind ICT dreams". Designing a ubiquitous city in a living lab environment, International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology 4, 2(2012), 231-252.
40. Tedre, M., Sutinen, E., Kähkönen, E. and Kommers, P. Ethnocomputing: ICT in cultural and social context. Communications of ACM 49, 1(2006), 126-130.
41. Thulin, E. and Vilhelmson, B. Mobiles everywhere: Youth, the mobile phone, and changes in everyday practice. Young, 15, 3(2007), 235-253.
42. TNS Gallup: Mobile Life 2013 Study. 2013.
43. Williams, A., Robles, E. and Dourish, P. Urbaneing the city: Examining and refining the assumptions behind urban Informatics. In Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: the Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City, ed. Foth M. Information Science Reference, IGI Global, Hershey, 2008, 1-20.
44. Ylipulli, J., Suopajärvi, T., Ojala, T., Kostakos, V. and Kukka, H. Municipal WiFi and interactive displays: Appropriation of new technologies in public urban spaces. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. [forthcoming; online first 2013]
45. Ylipulli, J. and Suopajärvi, T. Contesting ubicomp visions through ICT practices: Power negotiations in the meshwork of a technologised city. International Communication Gazette 75, 5-6(2013), 538-554.
46. Zarek, A., Wigdor, D. and Singh, K. SNOUT: onehanded use of capacitive touch devices. In Proc. Advanced Visual Interfaces 2012, 140-147.