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Urban echoes: adaptive and communicative urban lighting in the virtual and the real

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New lighting technologies with means to control urban lighting pursuant to sensor data in real-time are approaching the market and design schemes. However, there is a lack of design tools for designing adaptive lighting without programming skills. In addition, the communicative potential of outdoor lighting in urban environments is unused. This paper presents a real-world demo of adaptive and communicative urban lighting, called Urban Echoes (UE). The paper focuses on: 1) the development and testing process of a novel design tool for adaptive urban lighting, and 2) the exploration of the design and realization process of UE, a temporary, adaptive and communicative park lighting system. In UE, park lighting reacted to park visitors' movements through a multi-agent system based adaptation process. The system was developed to produce a rich variety of dynamic lighting schemes, designed and simulated with the tool. In addition, UE visualised urban information with light patterns by user request on mobile devices.

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    MAB '14: Proceedings of the 2nd Media Architecture Biennale Conference: World Cities
    November 2014
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    1. adaptive urban lighting
    2. ambient media
    3. communicative lighting system
    4. design tool
    5. interactive lighting
    6. mobile service
    7. multi-agent system
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