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DIGITALCITIES
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Digital Cities and the Opportunities for Mobilizing the Information Society: Case Studies from Portugal
The development of case studies in selected Portuguese cities and regions which have been engaged in “digital city” projects is considered in this paper in a way to discuss mai...
José L. Moutinho, Manuel V. Heitor
DIGITALCITIES
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Virtual Cities for Real-World Crisis Management
In this paper, we present the evacuation simulation system that is the combination of a virtual city and a crisis management simulation. The system allows users to become virtual e...
Hideyuki Nakanishi, Satoshi Koizumi, Toru Ishida
DIGITALCITIES
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Talking Digital Cities: Connecting Heterogeneous Digital Cities Via the Universal Mobile Interface
This paper introduces the universal mobile interface that allows users to navigate themselves into multiple heterogeneous digital cites with a single interface. The universal mobi...
Tomoko Koda, Satoshi Nakazawa, Toru Ishida
DIGITALCITIES
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
World Digital Cities: Beyond Heterogeneity
This paper reviews worldwide activities on regional information spaces. In the US and Canada, a large number of community networks appeared in the early 1990s. As a platform for co...
Toru Ishida, Alessandro Aurigi, Mika Yasuoka
DIGITALCITIES
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Activities and Technologies in Digital City Kyoto
We have developed a digital city for Kyoto, the old capital and cultural center of Japan, as a social information infrastructure for urban everyday life including shopping, busines...
Toru Ishida
DIGITALCITIES
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Promises and Perils of Integrated Community Learning Environments
Stefan Welling, Andreas Breiter
DIGITALCITIES
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Digital City Shanghai: Concepts, Foundations, and Current State
The fastest developing city in China is Shanghai; its annual growth
Peng Ding, Donghui Lin, Huanye Sheng
DIGITALCITIES
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Cultural User Experience Issues in E-government: Designing for a Multi-cultural Society
This paper examines the influences of culture on the user experience of local e-government services. It investigates the hypothesis that citizens with different cultural background...
Nik van Dam, Vanessa Evers, Florann A. Arts
DIGITALCITIES
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Map-Based Range Query Processing for Geographic Web Search Systems
In order to utilize geographic web information for digital city applications, we have been developing a geographic web search system, KyotoSEARCH. When users retrieve geographic in...
Ryong Lee, H. Shiina, Taro Tezuka, Yusuke Yokota, ...
DIGITALCITIES
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Blacksburg Electronic Village: A Study in Community Computing
This paper discusses the development of Blacksburg Electronic Village, and several of the ICT projects for local development. The stakeholders and their interests are analyzed, as ...
John M. Carroll