A proposal for better communication between citizens, public officials, and decision-makers, using augmented reality and cultural gestures input. Supporting the paper presented at the DSAI 2015 conference on June 11th, 2015.

1. Cities in citizens’ hands
Leonel Morgado, Rui Rodrigues, António Coelho, Olga
Magano, Tânia Calçada, Paula Trigueiros Cunha, Cynthia
Echave, Olga Kordas, Sara Sama, Jennifer Oliver, Jim Ang,
Farzin Deravi, Ricardo Bento, Luís Ramos
leonel.morgado@uab.pt

2. Picture from: "Urban subsystem" by Massimo.tadi - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Urban_subsystem.jpg#/media/File:Urban_subsystem.jpg
Cities are complex
Cities are systems
Cities are location-based

3. Picture from: "Urban subsystem" by Massimo.tadi - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Urban_subsystem.jpg#/media/File:Urban_subsystem.jpg
Public participation
in urban planning
is challenging
WorkplacesLiving
Pollution
Infrastructure

4. Cause and effect are
deceptively simple
repeat 4
[
forward 10
right 90
]

6. Emergent processes
are hard to envision

7. Another example:
generating a map
//First pass: random terrain
for (int x = 0; x < Width(); x++)
for (int y = 0; y < Height();y++)
map[x][y] = rand.Next(LandTypes);

8. Effect of the 2nd pass?
//Second pass
for (int x = 0; x < Largura(); x++)
for (int y = 0; y < Altura(); y++)
// randomly copy terrain
// left, right, up, or down

9. A more realistic terrain
//Second pass
for (int x = 0; x < Largura(); x++)
for (int y = 0; y < Altura(); y++)
// randomly copy terrain
// left, right, up, or down

10. Emergency is hard to envision

11. Understand Communicate

12. Hyper Reality Update 11
Keiichi Matsuda

13. Augmented (hyper)Reality
Keiichi Matsuda

16. We see citizens as bearers of complex social and cultural
knowledge that can be leveraged to meet the challenge of
defining rules and behaviors to explore and communicate
complex, systemic data and ideas.

17. We see citizens as bearers of complex social and cultural
knowledge that can be leveraged to meet the challenge of
defining rules and behaviors to explore and communicate
complex, systemic data and ideas.
“Knowledge” that is consistent with the mix of real and virtual
in augmented reality: the cultural expressions and elements
found in body motions and gestures, voice, and tangible
object manipulation.

18. 3-kilometer pedestrian route to the city outskirts

19. The new bridge

20. 1.6-kilometer pedestrian route to the city centre

21. Not much? Well…unofficial midway railway crossing

24. Interested? Get in touch!
Let’s get the grants to fund this research!
Leonel Morgado
leonel.morgado@uab.pt