Experiencing participatory and communicative urban lighting through LightStories

Pihlajaniemi, Henrika; Luusua, Anna; Teirilä, Minna; Österlund, Toni; Tanska, Tuulikki

doi:10.1145/2421076.2421087

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“…The first case study we will present and discuss is the LightStories project [33,36], conducted in winter 2011-2012. The pilot project was part of a four-year research project, where we collaborated with the city authorities and lighting companies.…”

Section: Communication Participation and Self-expressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Playful and Playable Lighting in Smart Cities: Towards a Holistic Framework of Design

Pihlajaniemi

Luusua

2019

Making Smart Cities More Playable

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In this chapter, we will explore the phenomenon of playful and playable lighting in smart cities. We will describe and discuss participant experiences of playful and playable lighting based on the design and evaluation processes of four case studies. These studies, we argue, provide aspects of participation, communication and self-expression; experiences of the sense of place, meanings and beauty; and activities of play and physical exercise. We will look at these case studies, and the aspects of playfulness and playability, through the lens of both smart city literature and relevant theories, and the practical experiences from the processes, examining also the afterlife of the case studies. We reflect on the presented case studies and their experiential aspects, asking: How can playful and playable lighting be made viable in a city? Finally, we conclude by presenting a design framework which consolidates aspects that, we argue, should be acknowledged, considered and addressed in the design and decision-making processes of smart cities, neighbourhoods and urban places in order to create playful experiences of playable urban lighting in a viable way.

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Section: Communication Participation and Self-expressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Additionally, the system use data and the LightStories, which had been created, were collected and analysed. A thorough description of the evaluation and analysis of the results is detailed in [36]; in the following, then, we will discuss some of the key findings.…”

Section: Communication Participation and Self-expressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Playful and Playable Lighting in Smart Cities: Towards a Holistic Framework of Design

Pihlajaniemi

Luusua

2019

Making Smart Cities More Playable

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“…Personal mobile devices have also been applied to such tasks, which can provide both personalized and shared control of lighting [10]. At the same time, concepts where individuals can control large number of public lighting have been created (e.g., [21]). …”

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Spatial Control Framework for Interactive Lighting

Hakulinen

Turunen

Heimonen

2013

Proceedings of International Conference on Making Sense of Converging Media

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Lighting has become an integral element in interactive environments as a result of advances in LED and home automation technology. New models for controlling diverse sets of lighting fixtures are needed. Traditional lighting control, where users manipulate the state of individual light fixtures, is not efficient or expressive in situations where a large number of lights with complex parameters need to be configured. We present a multi-tiered software framework which enables the creation of new kind of user interfaces for controlling lighting and construction of intelligent solutions which automatically control lights. Using the low level of the framework, individual fixtures are controlled over unified protocol, which abstracts the exact technical capabilities of lighting hardware. At the spatial lighting service level the control is realized using concepts like area and direction. The framework has been used in several real-world installations, e.g., to create physical exercise games for children and to design light-based indoor guidance.

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“…(Benford, et al 2006)). Another use case similar to Light Stories (Pihlajaniemi, et al 2012) where citizens can add stories to the device, could be considered because plaza situations demand these more than walkway situations. Further use case ideas go from "mimicking the other", direct referencing of the surroundings, to games and tourist applications.…”

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Urban HCI: PlazaPuck - An unowned, moveable, public interface

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Hornecker²,

Umar³

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Mensch &Amp; Computer 2013 - Tagungsband

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The design of public interfaces follows other criteria as that of mobile or desktop applications. Performative elements enhance the interface and additional requirements of physical robustness are to be taken care of in the design process from the very start. Here, we report on how these two aspects impacted the design of a novel interface called PlazaPuck, created for everyday life on public plazas.

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Experiencing participatory and communicative urban lighting through LightStories

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Playful and Playable Lighting in Smart Cities: Towards a Holistic Framework of Design

Playful and Playable Lighting in Smart Cities: Towards a Holistic Framework of Design

Spatial Control Framework for Interactive Lighting

Urban HCI: PlazaPuck - An unowned, moveable, public interface

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