Collective Awareness for Human-ICT Collaboration in Smart Cities

Author

Bicocchi, Nicola ; Cecaj, Alket ; Fontana, Damiano ; Mamei, Marco ; Sassi, Andrea ; Zambonelli, Franco

Author_Institution

Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

17-20 June 2013

Firstpage

3

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Future urban scenarios will be characterized by the close integration of ´CT devices and humans. Citizens using their own capabilities integrated with ´CT technologies could collaboratively constitute a large-scale socio-technical superorganism to support collective urban awareness and activities. This position paper, with the help of a representative case study in the area of intelligent transportation systems, identifies the key challenges for future urban superorganisms and proposes a two-tier architecture to support their development.

Keywords

groupware; socio-economic effects; ubiquitous computing; collective urban awareness; human-ICT collaboration; intelligent transportation system; large-scale socio-technical superorganism; smart cities; Cities and towns; Collaboration; Computer architecture; Context; Middleware; Sensors; Urban areas; CyberPhysical Convergence; Middleware; Pervasive Computing; Self-Organization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), 2013 IEEE 22nd International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Hammamet

ISSN

1524-4547

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0405-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WETICE.2013.34

Filename

6570574