IEEE Pervasive Computing: Urban Computing: Call for Papers

A IEEE Pervasive special issue on Urban Computing has been initiated by Tim Kindberg (HP Labs Bristol) and will be co-edited by Eric Paulos (Intel Research, Berkeley), Michael Joroff (MIT, School of Architecture and Planning), and Matthew Chalmers (University of Glasgow)

The Call for Papers give the following description:

IEEE Pervasive Computing invites articles about urban computing: the integration of computing, sensing, and actuation technologies into our everyday urban settings and lifestyles. Successful integration requires taking several facets of the urban environment into account at once. Urban settings frame social behaviors; they encompass architectural forms and features that may or may not be harmonious with given technologies; and they are increasingly but variably permeated by wireless networks and fixed and mobile devices. A key challenge is the great diversity and density of people, devices, and built artifacts found in urban places. Urban computing ranges from city-wide transportation-sensing infrastructure, to services embedded in a cafe, to the bluetooth “aura” of an individual’s mobile phone as he or she walks down a street.

Relation to my thesis: Fits to my interests in wireless society, citizen sensors, urban interaction, urban experiences, downtownware, city as a system, design for appropriation, space syntax, and urban real-world deployments. Publication due in June 2007