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Virtual Environments as Enablers of Civic Awareness and Engagement

Virtual Environments as Enablers of Civic Awareness and Engagement
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Author(s): Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy), Antonio Corradi (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy), Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy), Eliza Helena Gomes (UFSC, Florianópolis, Brazil), Elena Lamberti (University of Bologna, Italy), Gisiela Klein (UDESC, Florianópolis, Brazil), Carlos Roberto De Rolt (UDESC, Florianópolis, Brazil)and Marco Torello (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
Copyright: 2020
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 13
Source title: International Journal of Urban Planning and Smart Cities (IJUPSC)
Editor(s)-in-Chief: Francesco Rotondo (Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy)and Nicola Martinelli (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/IJUPSC.2020010102

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Abstract

The wide availability of accurate sensors currently hosted by smartphones are enabling new participative urban management opportunities. Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) allows people to actively participate in any aspect of urban planning, by collecting and sharing data, reporting issues to public administrations, proposing solutions to urban planners, and delivering information of potential social interest to their community. Although collected data can be very helpful to enhance the quality of life of citizens, mobile users are still reluctant to use their devices to take advantages of the opportunities offered by the digitized society, mainly due to privacy issues. From August to December 2018, the city of Florianópolis, capital of Santa Catarina, in southern Brazil, was used as a living lab environment for an MCS application called ParticipACT Brazil, a socio/technical-aware crowdsensing platform. While the current literature focuses on MCS from a purely technical point of view, this research demonstrated that a multidisciplinary approach that includes both human sciences and ICT is needed in order to better identify critical issues, highlights the untapped potential of MCS paradigm, and suggests research methodologies that could provide benefits for all the actors involved (researchers, public administrators, and citizens).

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