Smart Cities at Play: Technology and Emerging Forms of Playfulness

— —

Konstantinos Papangelis (Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Michael Saker (University of London, UK)

Smart Cities at Play

Technology and Emerging Forms of Playfulness

Konstantinos Papangelis (Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg), Michael Saker (University of London, UK), Catherine Jones

$273

Hardback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We then advise you accordingly. If the time taken to get any book is too long for you, you can let us know and we will cancel or adjust your order, and refund as required.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

CRC Press
01 December 2023

City & town planning - architectural aspects; Media studies; Urban & municipal planning; Ethical & social aspects of computing; Artificial intelligence

This book explores how smart cities enable new and playful ways for citizens to experience, inhabit and socialise within urban environments.

It examines how the functionality of digital technologies within municipal settings can extend beyond environmental pragmatism and socio-economic concerns, to include playful approaches to urban spaces that co-constitute and reinvigorate the experience of place through location-based applications and games. Chapters highlight the varied ways the city, as both a conceptual and lived space, is changing because of this confluence of technologies. The book also considers the extent to which these transformations form an armature upon which more playful approaches to the urban domain are emerging, while exploring what effect these ludic formations might have on related understandings of sociability.

Smart Cities at Play: Technology and Emerging Forms of Playfulness will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of information technology, urban planning and design, games and interactive media, human-centred and user-centred design, human centred interaction, digital geography and sociology. This book was originally published as a special issue of Behaviour & Information Technology.

Edited by: Konstantinos Papangelis (Université du Luxembourg Luxembourg), Michael Saker (University of London, UK), Catherine Jones
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 210mm,
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9781032608501
ISBN 10: 1032608501
Pages: 106
Publication Date: 01 December 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction to smart cities at play: technology and emerging forms of playfulness 2. Factors that determine residents’ acceptance of smart city technologies 3. The role of a location-based city exploration game in digital placemaking 4. Seeing new in the familiar: intensifying aesthetic engagement with the city through new location-based technologies 5. Play in the smart city context: exploring interactional, bodily, social and spatial aspects of situated media interfaces 6. Smart data at play: improving accessibility in the urban transport system 7. Serious gaming as a means of facilitating truly smart cities: a narrative review

Prof. Papangelis is an Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, specializing in interactive games and media. He directs the Niantic X RIT Geo Games and Media Lab, focusing on locative media, extended/hybrid reality, and the metaverse. He has published extensively in renowned journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Saker is a Senior Lecturer at City, University of London. He is co-author of From Microverse to Metaverse (2022); Intergenerational Locative Play (2021); and Location-Based Social Media, Space, Time and Identity (2017); and co-editor of The Changing Face of VR (2022). Dr. Jones is an Assistant Professor in Digital Human Geographies in the Faculty of Human, Education and Social Sciences at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.