Urban Games for Smart Cities – Milano, 30 marzo 2011

Urban Games for Smart Cities

"Vision Workshop" on Smart Cities

Irene Celino – Semantic Web Practice

CEFRIEL

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Urban Computing in LarKC

� Urban LarKC:� Integration of data about monuments, events and path-finding in

Milano through Linked Data and Open Data� (also extensible to other locations)� http://larkc.cefriel.it/alpha-Urban-LarKC/

� Traffic LarKC:� Integration of traffic predictions and path-finding in Milano through

Machine Learning and Semantic Web technologies � in collaboration with Siemens� http://larkc.cefriel.it/traffic-larkc/

� Local "Mavens" (ongoing work)� Extraction of data from social networks (Twitter, foursquare, etc.) to

identify "experts" of local POIs in Seoul (e.g. restaurants)� JRU with Politecnico, in collaboration with Saltlux and Siemens

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GWAP per Linked Data Quality

(ongoing work)� Games with a Purpose (GWAP)

� game played on a computer that serves some purpose for the people setting up the game by harnessing human abilities in an entertaining setting� Data collection

� e.g. GWAP used to tag images� Data quality assessment

� e.g. GWAP (or sort of) used to correct/update manually curated datasets

� Linked Data are large datasets that contains information with a varying level of quality

� let's use GWAP to improve Linked Data sets (about urban environments)

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Vision: 3 converging trends?

Urban Computing e Location-based Services

(LBS)

Linked Data e Semantic Web

Games with a Purpose e Crowdsourcing

Urban Games

citizens as sensors, check-in logging, mobile apps

collecting data, cleaning data, engaging the user, supporting the user while entertaining him/her

open data, structured data, government data, tourism data, social networks, touristic recommendations

Preliminary contacts with: