The growing urban populations make cities increasingly important as the main space for modern human interaction and the current advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) demands and opens up the opportunity to develop and design infrastructures and architecture that enhance the lives of their inhabitants in ways which would have been until very recently unthinkable. Among different proposals, with the support of ICT, meta and mega-cities are seen as spaces where traffic and transportation services can be optimized, where individual citizen participation can be achieved and enhanced, where epidemic outbursts can be prevented, detected and managed, where public services can be monitored and adjusted on demand, and where people can live better, safer, and healthier. All those ideas are presented in a model that brings intelligence, integration, optimization, and computing to the city, creating the idea of an Intelligent City.

Much has to be done to move from initiatives that focus on techno-centric perspectives, on exploring the possibilities of current ICT, which create smart solutions, but not necessarily smart cities. This requires an effort where many solutions can be integrated into a larger infrastructure; where all these solutions add up to create the inputs for a larger purpose, where models describing the dynamics of the city can be defined; where models can be used for the purpose of planning and decision-making. Indeed we need discussions on how to create intelligent cities based on the idea where, from sensing, we move to models, and from there, to planning and decisions. Planning, design and management are all important to make an adaptable model that respects the whole life nature of cities for future generations.

This workshop aims to be a space where people are not only interested in creating, designing, planning and implementing ICT infrastructures for Smart Cities but can discuss the opportunities to create scenarios where different solutions can provide the information to see and understand the intelligent city in a more holistic perspective, where networks of sensors, can be used to sense the dynamics of the city, where data can be used to detect patterns, and to establish models and theories about the use and life of the cities and where the individual via body sensor networks becomes part of this. Moreover, in order to move towards the goal of intelligent and truly livable, vibrant cities, experts and stakeholders from various domains must work together. This workshop seeks to build a bridge between the technical expertise from the ICT community and the design intelligence of the urban design, architecture and planning communities. The workshop seeks cutting edge research contributions in the technical planning and modeling of sentient urban conditions as well as design efforts in orchestrating urban vibrancy and new social qualities through ICT.

Workshop Format

Each session will be focused by topic area and will start with a few 15-minute introductory talks, followed by a highly interactive 45-minute discussion of the papers and problems and solutions in the thematic area. Participants are strongly encouraged to participate in the discussions.

Submissions

Submissions must be 8 pages long including figures, tables, and references. In order to promote discussion, the review process will heavily favor submissions that are forward-looking and open-ended, as opposed to those that summarize more mature work on the verge of conference publication.  Manuscripts must use the SIGCHI ACM Full paper format.

All papers accepted in the Workshop program will be published as a volume of the Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments Series (ISI indexed) of IOS-Press and electronically available through ACM Digital Library.

Organizers

Dr. Víctor Manuel González y González.
Department of Computer Science Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico

Dr. Rolando Menchaca-Mendez.
Centro de Investigación en Computación Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México

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