Final presentation of 'Kung-fu'-ting, or kicking the crap out of commuting for the City of Copenhagen. Presented on May 6, 2011 for MIT's Senseable Cities Lab. Final version introduces the local discovery paradox, crowd-tracking, and the 3 essential elements of 'kung-fu'-ting.

1. Kicking the crap out of commuting kung-fu-ting time-sensitive, local discovery application for the short moments of freedom during your commute &

2. . . . but in between destinations, we often have short moments of freedom Commuting is one of life’s unhappiest experiences

3. Do we stay or do we discover?

4. Paris et l’agglomerationparisienne Map of activities of citizens in Paris Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe (1952)

5. 36 hours of location data, MIT student Humans follow simple, reproducible mobility patterns, returning to a few locations of home and work (Barabasi, Gonzalez, Hidalgo 2008) school home We stay Despite our deep-rooted desire for change and spontaneity, our daily mobility is, in fact, characterized by a deeply rooted regularity (Song, Qu, Blumm, Barabasi 2010)

6. How can we use this new ability to track our movements precisely to help us discover our community?

7. The local discovery paradox spatial + time non-spatial spatial coffee shops in Copenhagen within 10 minutes of walk or Metro books songs restaurants in Copenhagen choices 1-5 1,000 46,000,000 130,000,000 experts ??? How to encourage local discovery with so few choices? other people’s reviews social networks social networks discovery models personal history personal history personal history other people’s purchases other people’s purchases

8. What about less commercial destinations? Most local discovery today is limited to fixed, privately-owned, commercial destinations About 14,000 Restaurants in this section of Copenhagen

9. Communities have more than restaurants and coffee shops Norrebro, home of future Metro Station

10. Communities have more than restaurants and coffee shops Norrebro, home of future Metro Station

11. Communities have more than restaurants and coffee shops Norrebro, home of future Metro Station

12. coffee shops Crowd-tracking you are here people’s recent tracks

13. coffee shops Crowd-tracking you are here people’s recent tracks

14. coffee shops Crowd-tracking you are here people’s recent tracks

15. kung-fu-ting time-sensitive, local discovery application for the short moments of freedom during your commute

16. 2 3 1 personal historyand crowd-tracker limited information interface real-time commute calculator creates new destinations to discover lowers the risk of discovery makes discovery moresuspenseful

17. Hmmm . . . It looks like I’m going to be early for school. I might have to make small talk with the professor. I hatesmall talk . . . morningkung-fute

18. 8:20 AM God morgenDennis! Where are you going? School Girl- friend Bar Other

19. 8:20 AM God morgenDennis! Where are you going? School Girl- friend Bar Other

20. 8:21 AM God morgenDennis! When do you need to arrive? 9:30 AM

21. 8:21 AM God morgenDennis! When do you need to arrive? 9:00 AM 9:30 AM

22. 8:24 AM God morgenDennis! 1 You have real-time commute calculator 15min of freedom! See direct route kung-fute

23. 8:24 AM God morgenDennis! You have 15min of freedom! See direct route kung-fute

24. 8:26 AM You are arriving atVestamager 15min +9 min +10 min +19 min | 8:45 AM See walking directions kungfute

25. 8:26 AM You are arriving atVestamager 15min +9 min +10 min +19 min | 8:45 AM See walking directions kungfute

26. 8:35 AM local business integration 10min Baresso Coffee personal history and crowd- tracking 15min 2 ??? 25min friends +social events DavidLee

27. 8:35 AM local business integration 10min Baresso Coffee personal history and crowd- tracking 15min 2 ??? 25min friends +social events DavidLee

28. 8:37AM 13min You are freezing cold . . . brrr limited information interface 3

29. 8:38 AM 12min Getting warmer

30. 8:40 AM 10min What are you looking at?

31. 8:44 AM 6min To the right . . .

32. 8:47 AM Congratulations!You made it to a popular spot you haven’t visited in 11 months 3min

33. 8:47 AM Congratulations!You made it to a popular spot you haven’t visited in 11 months 3min

34. 8:50 AM 8:48AM There are still 9 hot summer spots in the area that you have not discovered 2min

35. 8:49 AM God morgenDennis! The fun is over. 1min 10 min walk to work See direct route

36. Where haven’t you been lately? Share your tracks to sniff out where other people go. kung-fu-ting Download Brought to you by

37. appendix

38. Our wandering is limited by time and speed Hagerstrand Time-Space Prism (1970)

39. Transport technologies expand our discovery ranges Copenhagen’s driverless Metro

40. Walk-Metro commute discovery ranges Charles MGH 4 min 3 min Kendall / MIT Harvard Park St Central 3 min 3 min school home 10 minutes 20 minutes

41. How to discover within these ranges? Charles MGH Kendall / MIT Harvard Park St school Central home 10 minutes 20 minutes

42. “There’s a significant opportunity to transform transit into positive experiences that are about more than just getting from Point A to Point B: experiences of spontaneous discovery, community involvement and belongingness, and so on.” “Tech for Transit: Designing a Future System” by Latitude Research + Next American City, March 2011