Track: Digital Media: Content and Communication
Minitrack: Urban Computing: The City as a Living Lab

Urban computing encompasses the rapidly emerging role of mobile and wireless computing that will influence, disrupt, and emerge as the medium of the social interactions within urban landscapes. The Living Lab concept aims to engage and empower large groups of citizens in open real-world experimentally driven innovation processes. It also functions as a full-scale laboratory for prototyping and testing new mobile technology applications.

Living Labs contributes to the coming challenges of mass-deployment of ICT solutions. It brings the users/consumers/citizens into the innovation system, thereby leveraging on a larger mass of ideas, knowledge and experiences. This has the potential of substantially improve innovation capability and ensure applications and services that fulfills the needs of the users.

The goal of this minitrack in the Digital Media Track is to bring together researchers to discuss design and evaluation methodologies for mobile applications in the context of living labs and/or direct user involvement.

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
* Applications areas: Tourism/Health/Banking/Games/Media.
* Computing in Public Spaces: streets/buses/shops/offices
* Social constructs and their impacts
* Special groups (e.g. senior citizens, teens)
* Testing protocols
* Large scale data collection, analysis and visualization
* Installations

Co-chairs:
Carina Ihlstrom Eriksson (Primary Contact)
School of Information Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering
Halmstad University
P.O. Box 823, S-310 18 Halmstad, Sweden
Email: carina.ihlstrom_eriksson@hh.se

Carolyn Watters
Faculty of Computer Science
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3W5
Phone: +1-902-494-6723
Email: carolyn.watters@dal.ca