IPCityInteraction and Presence in Urban Renewal
The research aim of the IPCity project is to investigate analytical
and technological approaches to presence in real life
settings.
Analytically, this includes extending the approaches to
presence accounting for the participative and social constitution of
presence, the multiplicity and distribution of events in time and
space. Technologically, this translates into developing portable
environments for on-site configuration, mobile and light-weight mixed
reality interfaces with the ambition to weave them into "the fabric of
everyday life". Methodologically, this calls for moving "out of the
lab" with field trials in real settings, applying a triangulation of
disciplines and methods for evaluation. These range from
interpretative-ethnographic to quasi-experimental approaches and
include cognitive science, social-psychological, and
cultural-anthropological disciplines.
The vision of the IPCity project
is to provide citizens, visitors, as well as professionals involved in
city development or the organisation of events with a set of
technologies that enable them to collaboratively envision, debate
emerging developments, experience past and future views or happenings
of their local urban environment, discovering new aspects of their
city.
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