SmartCities 2016 - Workshop on IoT as driver for the Co-Created Smart City

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged in ever more communities, and is now beginning to make traction in Maker (self-taught tinkerers) oriented communities as well. Similar movements are happening in the Smart City domain, and it is now interesting to look at how the two terms collide. A natural consequence is that it is important to investigate how IoT tools and enablers are actually being developed and used by diverse communities. IoT is no longer for the selected few, since Makers, and even non-tech people are engaging with IoT on a daily basis (in the Smart City), and they want to be able to exploit the endless possibilities that lie within this domain. The term developer is no longer describing an exclusive group of people, with special competencies or technical backgrounds. The definition of a developer is broadening, and anyone can more or less see themselves as Smart City application creators. This shift can be seen when looking at communities like Arduino and Processing. These communities have made technology widely accessible, and now most people can develop rather complex systems with minimum efforts. The natural question is then to ask how we can develop IoT tools that foster usage on different levels without excluding experts or Makers. If IoT tools are too simple experts will not use them, and freedom is lost. If tools are too complex, Makers cannot use them.
In this session the focus is on co-creating smart cities. This domain is relevant since cities worldwide are rapidly changing into smart interconnected systems, both from a technological and a mindset perspective. Cities are being instrumented with new technologies every day, and citizens are trying to keep up with the new abilities technology brings to the table. Now that cities are becoming intertwined complex ecosystems, it is time to investigate how to empower citizens to take active part in shaping the Smart City through IoT.
The technical/societal topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Developing citizen centric IoT solutions
Creating citizen engagement through IoT
Maker community developments within IoT
Decreasing the complexity in building IoT applications
Making IoT infrastructures easily accessible
Experimenting in the smart city through IoT
Novel IoT developer tools targeted Maker communities
User friendly IoT tools for making sense of data
Motivate citizens through Incentivation and reward mechanisms
Managing and modelling community behavior
The format of the workshop will be to present different views on co-creation and citizen driven IoT development in Smart Cities. The aim is to develop a joint understanding of common success stories and differences based on regional and cultural differences and approaches. Emphasis will be put on how to enable citizens, and primarily Makers, to utilize IoT tools and infrastructures.
Organizing Committee
Lasse Steenbock Vestergaard, Alexandra Instituttet A/S lasse.vestergaard-AT-alexandra.dk
Evangelos Theodoridis, Intel Labs Europe evangelos.theodoridis-AT-intel.com
Luis Muñoz, University of Cantabria luis-AT-tlmat.unican.es
Technical Program Committee
Mirko Presser, Alexandra Instituttet A/S
Julie McCann, Imperial College London
Verónica Gutiérrez Polidura, University of Cantabria
Marimuthu Palaniswami, The University of Melbourne
RangaRao Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology
Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology
Alexander Gluhak, Digital Catapult
Stefan Fischer, University of Lübeck
Marita Holst, Luleå University of Technology
Martin Brynskov, Aarhus University
Payam Branaghi, Surrey University
Sebastien Ziegler, Mandat International
Georgios Mylonas, Computer Technology Institute & Press DiophantusEndFragment