Een referendumspook waart door Europa, aldus de gevestigde orde in Brussel. Het afgelopen jaar spraken Grieken, Denen, Nederlanders en Britten zich bij referenda uit tegen de Europese Unie. De geest gaat echter niet terug in de fles. Meer referenda zijn op komst. Tegelijkertijd lijkt het wantrouwen in …

Value Sensitive Design of Smart Cities. Paper gepresenteerd op de Charting the Next Decade for Value Sensitive Design Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark

This contribution presents how a value-sensitive participatory design approach was used with the aim to design meaningful applications for inhabitants in a city. In two bachelor courses, design students were challenged to account for a diversity of human values in urban interaction design by following …

Emerging pervasive technologies such as the Internet of Things and Open Data will have severe impact on the experience, interactions and wellbeing of citizens in future smart cities. Local governments are concerned how to engage and embed citizens in the process of smart city development because without …

A city is a public space where people find meaning by living together. Although cities are governed by city councils, it is mainly the citizens that make their own city. The contemporary cityscape is increasingly pervaded with emerging media. Recent invasions of interactive media in the cityscape, however, …

We presenteren een samenwerkingsverband tussen de Hogeschool Rotterdam (HR), de Haagse Hogeschool (HHS) en de Hogeschool Leiden (HSL) op het gebied van het Internet of Things (IoT). Enige jaren geleden heeft de Stichting Innovatie Alliantie (SIA) opdracht aan het ICT Innovatie Platform Sensor Netwerken …

This paper describes factors that nurture a human-centered attitude of a design curriculum. A brief literature study defines a human-centered attitude and explains how to develop this attitude by using experiential learning theories. Furthermore, an illustrative case study reflects on the humancentered …

Many people are concerned about how information systems deal with human values such as privacy and trust. In this paper, we discuss the role of human values in the design of information systems. We elaborate on the nature of human values and discuss various approaches on how to address human values, …

This chapter discusses the concept of sensitive environments. Sensitive environments are essentially spatial and public areas like streets or school that are provided with an intelligent infrastructure that collects sensory information of users while they move and interact. Such sensitive environments …

In traditional marketing advertising is part of product promotion, one of the four P's of marketing. In the 20th century media channels such as papers and magazines, and later on radio and television, were used to distribute and broadcast advertisements in order to create product and brand awareness …