SUMMER 2013
Tracking City Pulse
Real Time Copenhagen
Real Time Copenhagen displays the pulse of Copenhagen's Kulturnatten. The pulse of the city is captured through mopile phone intensity. The GPS tracks the movements of volunteers and provides a personal glimpse of individul movemnets that take place at night. Observers can use this visualization to choose the best rights to take through the city and
what events they may want to attend. Through this,
both residents and tourist are able to realize they are
agents of change in the shifting urban environment
that surrounds them.
Real Time Copenhagen is a 3 year research project by the MIT SENSEable City Lab's in collaboration with the Municipality of Copenhagen. Within this framework, the CopenCycle explores the use of real time technologies to map the flow of people and resources to better understand urban dynamics in real time.
By revealing the city pulse, the project aims to demonstrate how technology can help individuals make more informed decisions about thrie environment, espeically the use of public spaces.
Currentcity
Currentcity is a research project by MIT SENSEable City Lab. In this method of pulse tracking, the MIT Lab collaborated with mobile operators as well as other data providers to create more detailed track visuals displaying the actual flow of people, both indoor and outdoor.
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crowd management: How many people are there in a given area?
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mobility analysis and forecasting: Where is traffic piling up?
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evacuation support, emergency management: What percentage of people has left the critical area?
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public transport management: What is the current demand for public transportation?
This project aims to answer the following questions:
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marketing and city advertisement: How many people will look at that billboard?
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urban planning: What is the pattern of inflow and outflow of people from the city?
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entertainment: What’s the hottest spot in town right now?
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tourism: Where do tourists come from and where do they go next?
The Scotish Highlands & Islands project is a 3 year research project by the MIT SENSEable City Lab in collaboration with the Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
Lochaber Live
Similiar to the CopenCycle, Lochaber Live is a short-term project within this framework which explores real time technologies, software platforms and mediated environments to investigate the flow of tourists along with activities and resources.
Amounst many things, this project aims to show how technology can help tourists, by allowing them to track each other and potentionally find useful resources for their visit
WikiCity Rome
This was a project that took place on the night of September 8th in Rome where differnet dynamic data was projected live on screen.
Events that were occuring around the city were indicated at the corresponding locations on the map at the time they occured. The blue color overlay illustrates how Romans moved within the city by reflecting cellphone usage. Notte Bianca focused on public transportation as well. It displayed the busses' real time position represented by the yellow figures. The key at the bottom dsiplays the different data that is tracked.
Raster Cities
New Program which assesses the environment consequences of urban texture. The program is based on the use of simple raster models of cities called Digital Elevation Models (DEMs).
Using software algorithms derived from image processing it is possible to develope efficient methods of measuring geometric parameters, and assesing environmental aspects such as radiation exchange, energy consumption, and wind porosity.
Self Fingerprinting
A new recent study by MIT confirms that people who have day to day routines own their own fingerprint in a sense.
The study shows that since our phones are constantly tracking our whereabouts, regardless of whether or not you’re checking in, if someone really wanted to, they could use this information to figure out who you are. The places we go, when marked down on a map, result in something like a digital a fingerprint.