Focus Section on “Augmenting Space: The role of immersive technologies in future cities”
Submission: July 15, 2020 September 2, 2020 (Extended)
http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call46fs#
As digital technologies are advancing, contemporary interactions within cities are beginning to emerge. These interactions are commonly enabled through sensors to implicitly automate manual processes, such as turning on lights or walking up stairs. However, cities were not necessarily built from the ground up to be smart, rather they are gradually becoming smarter over time as technology becomes more extensible and embedded within them. These digital technologies create information layers that exist over the physical space, resulting in the space being filled with dynamically changing information, thus augmenting the space. Augmented reality (AR) is one such technology that has recently seen a lot of development in this area and is only now starting to become more viable as hardware and computer vision algorithms have caught up. Films such as Minority Report (2002), Ghost in the Shell (2016), and Blade Runner (2017) have predicted AR’s future emergence in public spaces and cities.
Currently AR is most common on smartphones, with apps like Pokemon Go exposing the technology to a large audience. AR smart glasses are also becoming more accessible and bring with them the possibility of more natural integration of virtual content into our daily lives.
While AR is becoming more advanced, accessible, and has demonstrated potential, more knowledge is needed around the key benefits it will bring to cities and how it will change our interactions with the urban environment. Additionally, the use of such technologies raises the question of how the virtual and physical spaces can co-exist.
Therefore, the goal of this focus section is to bring together researchers to explore the applications of AR and other immersive technologies, such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), within the context of enhancing architecture, public spaces and cities.
We welcome research focused on engaging experiences using augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) within the context of enhancing architecture, public spaces and cities. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Augmenting humans in future cities
Digital heritage and preservation
Speculative designs, design fictions, and art projects
Perspectives from literature
How immersive technologies and applications can be utilised to enhance existing urban infrastructure/technologies (public displays, media facades, buildings, town squares, etc)
Remote collaboration
The effect of immersive technologies on culture and behaviour in cities
Smart cities with digital twin technologies
Health and well-being
Callum Parker | The University of Sydney, Australia
Soojeong Yoo | The University of Sydney, Australia
Waldemar Jenek | Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Youngho Lee | Mokpo National University, South Korea
Deadline: July 15, 2020 September 2, 2020 (Extended)
Notification to the authors: October 15, 2020
Camera ready paper: November 10, 2020
Publication of the special issue: end of November, 2020
All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication.
The manuscripts should be submitted anonymized either in .doc or in .rtf format (template).
All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Perspective participants are invited to submit a 8-20 pages paper (including authors’ information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.).
The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors’ guidelines.
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