Research Article
CitySkin: Which Color Is Your City?
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-51005-3_37, author={Isabel Paiva and Tiago Fernandes}, title={CitySkin: Which Color Is Your City?}, proceedings={Science and Technologies for Smart Cities. 5th EAI International Summit, SmartCity360, Braga, Portugal, December 4-6, 2019, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={SMARTCITY}, year={2020}, month={7}, keywords={Data visualization Mapping Ubiquitous computing Digital art GPS referencing}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-51005-3_37} }- Isabel Paiva
Tiago Fernandes
Year: 2020
CitySkin: Which Color Is Your City?
SMARTCITY
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-51005-3_37
Abstract
Mobile phones are becoming ubiquitous machines with increasing processing power. This paper will focus in discussing an experimental application, CitySkin, which relies on mobile phones for data retrieval with mapping purposes. This mobile visual system provides an accessible mean to design an invisible skin of a city (an output map) following a user point of view at a given moment in time. This project explores relations between subjectivity and raw data by combining hard data with visual mapping. Cities and their intrinsic diversity can be compared. Slightly different input variables can present greater changes in a recurrent path. CitySkin records the mood of a specific derive discussing the cultural implications on computing and the design of its ubiquity.
