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The social car: new interactive vehicular applications derived from social media and urban informatics

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Digital information that is place- and time-specific, is increasingly becoming available on all aspects of the urban landscape. People (cf. the Social Web), places (cf. the Geo Web), and physical objects (cf. ubiquitous computing, the Internet of Things) are increasingly infused with sensors, actuators, and tagged with a wealth of digital information. Urban informatics research explores these emerging digital layers of the city at the intersection of people, place and technology. However, little is known about the challenges and new opportunities that these digital layers may offer to road users driving through today's mega cities. We argue that this aspect is worth exploring in particular with regards to Auto-UI's overarching goal of making cars both safer and more enjoyable. This paper presents the findings of a pilot study, which included 14 urban informatics research experts participating in a guided ideation (idea creation) workshop within a simulated environment. They were immersed into different driving scenarios to imagine novel urban informatics type of applications specific to the driving context.

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      AutomotiveUI '12: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications
      October 2012
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      1. automotive
      2. geo web
      3. location-based services
      4. social media
      5. social web
      6. urban data
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