TY - JOUR
T1 - Grounding activity in people-centered smart territories by enhancing community awareness
AU - Carroll, John M.
AU - Kropczynski, Jessica
AU - Han, Kyungsik
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the US National Science Foundation (1218544).
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Contemporary life can seem rushed and overloaded. We argue this may be due not to merely having too much to do, but rather with experiencing fragmentation and inadequate meaning in one's own activity. We suggest that a design approach to this challenge is to enhance awareness of significant and persistent activity, and the themes, values, places, and motivations that unifies it and gives it greater meaning. Specifically, we suggest that people-centered smart territories can enhance community awareness by reminding people of placed-based history, heritage, current issues and discussions, and plans for the future in the community through a smart social grid of community information services.
AB - Contemporary life can seem rushed and overloaded. We argue this may be due not to merely having too much to do, but rather with experiencing fragmentation and inadequate meaning in one's own activity. We suggest that a design approach to this challenge is to enhance awareness of significant and persistent activity, and the themes, values, places, and motivations that unifies it and gives it greater meaning. Specifically, we suggest that people-centered smart territories can enhance community awareness by reminding people of placed-based history, heritage, current issues and discussions, and plans for the future in the community through a smart social grid of community information services.
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U2 - 10.55612/s-5002-020-001
DO - 10.55612/s-5002-020-001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85006502396
SN - 1826-9745
VL - 2014
SP - 9
EP - 22
JO - Interaction Design and Architecture(s)
JF - Interaction Design and Architecture(s)
IS - 20
ER -