Serious games and gamification are useful tools for learning and sustaining long-term
engagement in the activities that are not meant to be entertaining. However, the application …

The agent-based modeling approach is now used in many domains such as geography,
ecology, or economy, and more generally to study (spatially explicit) socio-environmental …

Collaborative visual analytics leverages social interaction to support data exploration and
sensemaking. These processes are typically imagined as formalised, extended activities …

Abstract Systems Intelligence (SI) can contribute to the design and practice of Participatory
Modelling (PM) by paying attention to the interplay of the 'soft'socio-emotional system …

Fast urbanization and climate change require innovative systems for an efficient movement
of people and goods in cities. As trends towards vehicle-sharing, autonomous vehicles, and …

Current planning and design decision support systems show limitations in the integration of
design, science, and computation. Planning support systems with manual design and post …

Existing situated visualization models assume the user is able to directly interact with the
objects and spaces to which the data refers (known as physical referents). We review a …

BRICKxAR is a novel augmented reality (AR) instruction method for construction toys such
as LEGO®. With BRICKxAR, physical LEGO construction is guided by virtual bricks …

We introduce HERMITS, a modular interaction architecture for self-propelled Tangible User
Interfaces (TUIs) that incorporates physical add-ons, referred to as mechanical shells. The …

Today, the majority of the world's population lives in cities and it is expected that urban
population will continue to grow in the coming decades. The increase in urban population …