Designing for Smart Cities:Connecting and Binding Citizens to Urban Spaces through a New Wearable Interactive System Assunta Matassa Università di Torino C.so Svizzera, 185 Torino, 10149, Italy Amon Rapp Università di Torino Dipartimento di Informatica C.so Svizzera, 185 Torino, 10149, Italy Rossana Simeoni Telecom Italia Research & Prototyping Via Reiss Romoli, 274 Torino, 10148, Italy ia.it UbiComp’13, September 8–12, 2013, Zurich, Switzerland

Outline Introduction Related work Using memories for engaging citizens Designing for memories in urban spaces First Evaluation Discussion and future work

Introduction(1/2) Recent studies at the MIT Senseable City research group focused on the possibility to rethink the city as an interface, allowing citizens to see the urban environments as actors people can interact with. Projects like Copenhagen Wheel

Introduction(2/2) Borrowing from Senseable City Projects we chose bikes as the best transportation mean for sustainable mobility in the new Smart Cities.

Related works(1/2) Currently, many academic studies explore the connection between HCI and personal memories. Other studies investigated (1)The connection between urban environments and storytelling. (2)Bonding spaces with narrative. (3)For enriching experience to users on the move. (4)Improving the tourist experience.

Related works(2/2) However, these works are focused on providing cultural, historical or fictional narratives to users, without leveraging the power of memories in transforming the meanings associated to a space.

Using memories for engaging citizens(1/2) 16 interviews,age between 20 and 55 use a bike for moving around the city(all used smart phone). what kind of usage they make of the bike during their daily activities, and what attitudes they have in relation to the use of this mean of transportation.

Using memories for engaging citizens(2/2) However, unlike cars, bikes allow people to have a privileged point of observation on the urban spaces and to live the city in a slower way. Interviewees pointed out that places in which they have experienced important moments strongly become part of their memory.

Designing for memories in urban spaces(1/3) We conceptualized a new interactive system can be established between personal memories and spaces. (i)recording people memories (ii)signaling the presence of a previously registered memory, when the user is in proximity of a place where a significant (for her or for someone else) experience has been recorded.

Designing for memories in urban spaces(2/3)

Designing for memories in urban spaces(3/3)

First Evaluation 6 interviews during DNA Italia, a fair focused on sustainable behaviors held in Torino on April, 18 and Luca said: I never thought that my city could become a container of my memories and the memories of other people. If this application will show me these things I think that even the perception of the streets that I go through everyday for going to work may change. “map of the memories”

Discussion and future work Differently from 'Memories: the diary’ and 'Collect: Photo in a day’ focus only on the retracing of the user personal experiences. Considers the city as an extension of human memory, that invites users to stop, reflect and recollect their memories with the final aim to promote a deep connection with the city spaces. Not only to provide a new vision of the urban environments, but also to allow people to rethink themselves, giving a new perspective of their identities.