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Towards a framework for geospatial tangible user interfaces in collaborative urban planning

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  • Valérie Maquil

    (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology)

  • Ulrich Leopold

    (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology)

  • Luís Moreira Sousa

    (ISRIC - World Soil Information)

  • Lou Schwartz

    (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology)

  • Eric Tobias

    (Lycée des Arts et Métiers)

Abstract

The increasing complexity of urban planning projects today requires new approaches to better integrate stakeholders with different professional backgrounds throughout a city. Traditional tools used in urban planning are designed for experts and offer little opportunity for participation and collaborative design. This paper introduces the concept of geospatial tangible user interfaces (GTUI) and reports on the design and implementation as well as the usability of such a GTUI to support stakeholder participation in collaborative urban planning. The proposed system uses physical objects to interact with large digital maps and geospatial data projected onto a tabletop. It is implemented using a PostGIS database, a web map server providing OGC web services, the computer vision framework reacTIVision, a Java-based TUIO client, and GeoTools. We describe how a GTUI has be instantiated and evaluated within the scope of two case studies related to real world collaborative urban planning scenarios. Our results confirm the feasibility of our proposed GTUI solutions to (a) instantiate different urban planning scenarios, (b) support collaboration, and (c) ensure an acceptable usability.

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  • Valérie Maquil & Ulrich Leopold & Luís Moreira Sousa & Lou Schwartz & Eric Tobias, 2018. "Towards a framework for geospatial tangible user interfaces in collaborative urban planning," Journal of Geographical Systems, Springer, vol. 20(2), pages 185-206, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jgeosy:v:20:y:2018:i:2:d:10.1007_s10109-018-0265-6
    DOI: 10.1007/s10109-018-0265-6
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    Keywords

    Geographical information systems; Human computer interaction; Geospatial tangible user interfaces; Interactive tabletops; Collaborative urban planning; Participatory urban planning;
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    JEL classification:

    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
    • R58 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Regional Development Planning and Policy
    • Q21 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Demand and Supply; Prices
    • C65 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Miscellaneous Mathematical Tools
    • C69 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Other
    • C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
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