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Fostering off-line interactions through local ubicomp systems: the case of urban development

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Many global internet services today can be thought of as being managed 'top-down' without much appreciation or requirement for local control. New services such as location-based data stores implemented in cities around the world suggest opportunities for novel forms of management of data with relevance to a local context. We argue that such localization of ubiquitous system management provides an opportunity in supporting local off-line interaction and 'community building' and that urban development, which requires interaction between members of different communities, presents an interesting case where such systems could be realised.

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    UbiComp '12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
    September 2012
    1268 pages
    ISBN:9781450312240
    DOI:10.1145/2370216
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    1. data rights
    2. democratization
    3. ubiquitous computing
    4. urban development

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    Ubicomp '12: The 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
    September 5 - 8, 2012
    Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh

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