Our daily urban experiences are the product of our perceptions and senses [7], yet the complete sensorial range is strikingly absent from urban studies. Sight has been historically privileged over the other senses and urban studies often focused on the visual dimension of cities [4, 3]. However, smell and sound have a huge influence over how we perceive places, they impact our behavior, attitud...

Owing to the recent development of digital broadcasting technology such as Satellite, CATV, the Internet and the expansion of the network systems, the amount of video data we can obtain is increasing day by day. In this paper, we propose Advanced Database TV (ADTV), an interactive video database system which lets us share video data on the network, as an application for future Interactive TV se...

Several studies have demonstrated that language encodes geographical information. That is, the relative longitude and latitude of city locations can be extracted from language. Whether people actually rely on these linguistic features is less clear. Recent studies have suggested that language statistics plays a role in geographical estimates, but these studies rely on map drawings, a fundamenta...

This paper presents digital methods for city analytics, applied to the mapping and activation of an urban area in the city of Amsterdam called the Knowledge Mile. Firstly, we map companies registered in the area and analyse their connections through online hyperlinking. Secondly, we use Instagram, Panoramio and Google Search data to map mostshared photos and high-ranked images of the area. Last...

Creating a smellmap of a city is a collaborative exercise. During a series of smellwalks, local participants identify distinct aromas emanating from specific locations and record the description, expectation, intensity, personal association, and reaction. I then analyse this data, along with conversations arising from the walks, and select a set of smells that convey the smellscape of the city ...

Current collaborative mapping projects using locative media technologies have often overlooked the conventions of the base map as a site for reinvention. Although these projects are ambitious in their aim to propose alternative organizations of urban space through the way it is digitally mapped, they remain bounded by datasets that reinforce a Cartesian and static notion of urban space. This pa...