Understanding urban dynamics is crucial for a number of domains, but it can be expensive
and time consuming to gather necessary data. The rapid rise of social media has given us a …

Over the past decade, online crowdsourcing has established itself as an emerging paradigm
that industry and government have been using to harness the cognitive abilities of a …

Understanding urban dynamics is crucial for a number of domains, but it can be expensive
and time consuming to gather necessary data. The rapid rise of social media has given us a …

With spatial technologies ranging from mapping software to the use of location-based
services, spatial knowledge is often acquired and communicated through geographic …

Mobility assistance ICTs have become important companions in daily life as digital
affordances have become sophisticated. However, understanding and researching …

Families are becoming more culturally heterogeneous due to a rise in intermarriage,
geographic mobility, and access to a greater diversity of cultural perspectives online …

We developed Tourgether, an app that enables tourists' mutual sharing of their experiences
via check-ins in real time, to enhance their awareness and exploration of various points of …

We report on our design of Acropolis, a social computing platform that allows citizens to
build and share their own narratives about long-running news stories of political nature. A …

Many projects have looked at how communities can co-design shared online repositories,
such as Wikimapia and Wikipedia. However, little work has examined how local …

In this work we present a mobile application we designed and engineered to enable people
to log their travels near and far, leave notes behind, and build a community around spaces …