Playable Cities

The City as a Digital Playground

Buch | Hardcover

253 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-10-1961-6 (ISBN)

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This book addresses the topic of playable cities, which use the ‘smartness’ of digital cities to offer their citizens playful events and activities. The contributions presented here examine various aspects of playable cities, including developments in pervasive and urban games, the use of urban data to design games and playful applications, architecture design and playability, and mischief and humor in playable cities.
The smartness of digital cities can be found in the sensors and actuators that are embedded in their environment. This smartness allows them to monitor, anticipate and support our activities and increases the efficiency of the cities and our activities. These urban smart technologies can offer citizens playful interactions with streets, buildings, street furniture, traffic, public art and entertainment, large public displays and public events.

Anton Nijholt studied mathematics and computer science at the Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands and received a Ph.D. degree in theoretical computer science from the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 1980. He is a Professor of Computer Science in the Human Media Interaction group, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. He held positions at various universities in and outside The Netherlands. His main research interests are entertainment computing, multimodal interaction, affective computing, and brain–computer interfacing. He has hundreds of scientific publications, including (edited) books on the history of computing, language processing, and brain–computer interfacing. Recently he edited three books: “Playful User Interfaces”, “More Playful User Interfaces” and “Entertaining the Whole World”, all with Springer. He has been a guest-editor for Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, International Journal of Arts and Technology, Entertainment Computing, International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics (IJCICG) and the Brain-Computer Interfaces journal. Presently, he is editing a section on Brain-computer Interaction and Games in a Springer Handbook on Digital Games and Entertainment. Professor Nijholt is also Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Human-Media Interaction and (associate) editor of several other journals. He has also served as Program Chair and General Chair for the main international conferences on affective computing, multimodal interaction, virtual agents, and entertainment computing.

Introduction to Playable Cities.- Creative Tourism, Social Tourism and Playful Smart Cities.- Playful Urban Interventions.- Game Engine in Urban Planning and Citizen Participation.- Thirdplaceness.- Mischief Humor in Playable Cities.- Digital Cartography for Playable Cities.- Development of Pervasive Games.- Urban Game: Operation Noose.- Engaging with the City through Urban Data Games.- Experimentation and Playfulness.

Erscheinungsdatum	31.10.2016
Reihe/Serie	Gaming Media and Social Effects
Zusatzinfo	71 Illustrations, color; 2 Illustrations, black and white; X, 253 p. 73 illus., 71 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► Spieleprogrammierung
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik
Schlagworte	Citizen Playful Engagement • Gameful Application • Gamified Application • Pervasive Games • Playful Architecture • Playful Civic Hacking • Playful Interactions • smart cities • Tangible interfaces • Urban Games
ISBN-10	981-10-1961-4 / 9811019614
ISBN-13	978-981-10-1961-6 / 9789811019616
Zustand	Neuware