Mobile, Collaborative Situated Knowledge Creation for Urban Planning
Geo-collaboration is an emerging research area in computer sciences studying the way spatial, geographically referenced information and communication technologies can support collaborative activities. Scenarios in which information associated to its physical location are of paramount importance are...
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| description | Geo-collaboration is an emerging research area in computer sciences studying the way spatial, geographically referenced information and communication technologies can support collaborative activities. Scenarios in which information associated to its physical location are of paramount importance are often referred as Situated Knowledge Creation scenarios. To date there are few computer systems supporting knowledge creation that explicitly incorporate physical context as part of the knowledge being managed in mobile face-to-face scenarios. This work presents a collaborative software application supporting visually-geo-referenced knowledge creation in mobile working scenarios while the users are interacting face-to-face. The system allows to manage data information associated to specific physical locations for knowledge creation processes in the field, such as urban planning, identifying specific physical locations, territorial management, <em>etc.</em>; using Tablet-PCs and GPS in order to geo-reference data and information. It presents a model for developing mobile applications supporting situated knowledge creation in the field, introducing the requirements for such an application and the functionalities it should have in order to fulfill them. The paper also presents the results of utility and usability evaluations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-18413956a68b4755afdd64a052dd525a2022-12-22T02:07:12ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202012-05-011256218624310.3390/s120506218Mobile, Collaborative Situated Knowledge Creation for Urban PlanningNelson BaloianGustavo ZuritaGeo-collaboration is an emerging research area in computer sciences studying the way spatial, geographically referenced information and communication technologies can support collaborative activities. Scenarios in which information associated to its physical location are of paramount importance are often referred as Situated Knowledge Creation scenarios. To date there are few computer systems supporting knowledge creation that explicitly incorporate physical context as part of the knowledge being managed in mobile face-to-face scenarios. This work presents a collaborative software application supporting visually-geo-referenced knowledge creation in mobile working scenarios while the users are interacting face-to-face. The system allows to manage data information associated to specific physical locations for knowledge creation processes in the field, such as urban planning, identifying specific physical locations, territorial management, <em>etc.</em>; using Tablet-PCs and GPS in order to geo-reference data and information. It presents a model for developing mobile applications supporting situated knowledge creation in the field, introducing the requirements for such an application and the functionalities it should have in order to fulfill them. The paper also presents the results of utility and usability evaluations.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/12/5/6218geo-collaborationKnowledge Creationmobile collaborative work |
| spellingShingle | Nelson Baloian Gustavo Zurita Mobile, Collaborative Situated Knowledge Creation for Urban Planning Sensors geo-collaboration Knowledge Creation mobile collaborative work |
| title | Mobile, Collaborative Situated Knowledge Creation for Urban Planning |
| title_full | Mobile, Collaborative Situated Knowledge Creation for Urban Planning |
| title_fullStr | Mobile, Collaborative Situated Knowledge Creation for Urban Planning |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mobile, Collaborative Situated Knowledge Creation for Urban Planning |
| title_short | Mobile, Collaborative Situated Knowledge Creation for Urban Planning |
| title_sort | mobile collaborative situated knowledge creation for urban planning |
| topic | geo-collaboration Knowledge Creation mobile collaborative work |
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