Revisit the drivers and barriers to e-governance in the mobile age: A case study on the adoption of city management mobile apps for smart urban governance

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tian Tang ◽  
Jinghui (Jove) Hou ◽  
Daniel L. Fay ◽  
Catherine Annis
Keyword(s):  
Urban Governance ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
City Management

scholarly journals Adventure Code Camp: Library Mobile Design in the Backcountry

2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ward ◽  
James Hahn ◽  
Lori Mestre
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
Process Outcomes ◽  
Mobile Design ◽  
Web App ◽  
Software Services

<p>This article presents a case study exploring the use of a student Coding Camp as a bottom-up mobile design process to generate library mobile apps. A code camp sources student programmer talent and ideas for designing software services and features.  This case study reviews process, outcomes, and next steps in mobile web app coding camps. It concludes by offering implications for services design beyond the local camp presented in this study. By understanding how patrons expect to integrate library services and resources into their use of mobile devices, librarians can better design the user experience for this environment.</p>

scholarly journals Applying the PECSL: using case studies to demonstrate the Pedagogy of Experience Complexity for Smart Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pen Lister
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Opportunities To Learn ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Smart Learning

AbstractThis paper discusses the uses and applications of the Pedagogy of Experience Complexity for Smart Learning (PECSL), a four-tier model of considerations for the design and development of smart learning activities. Using existing mobile apps and relevant activities as illustrative examples, the PECSL is applied to indicate concepts and mechanisms by which useful pedagogical considerations can work alongside user-centred design principles for the design and development of smart learning in urban hyper-localities. Practical application of the model is discussed using real world examples of activities as a basis to demonstrate the potential for manifold opportunities to learn, and plan for experience complexity in a smart learning activity. Case study approaches reflect on aspects of the PECSL in how it might be a useful and pragmatic guide to some of the issues faced when designing digital citizen learning activities in complex urban environments.

The utility of Mobile Apps as a Service (MAaaS): a case study of BlueBridge Digital

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santiago Jaramillo ◽  
C. Daniel Harting
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Apps

scholarly journals Competences of local and regional urban governance actors to support low-carbon transitions: Development of a framework and its application to a case-study

2018 ◽  
Vol 177 ◽  
pp. 846-856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg Holtz ◽  
Chun Xia-Bauer ◽  
Michaela Roelfes ◽  
Ralf Schüle ◽  
Daniel Vallentin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Governance ◽  
Low Carbon

scholarly journals Acceptance of mHealth among Health Professionals: A Case Study on Anesthesia Practitioners

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo Carvalho ◽  
Michael Verdonck ◽  
Patrice Forget ◽  
Jan Poelaert
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Anesthesia Care ◽  
Smartphone Apps ◽  
Belgian Society ◽  
Anonymous Questionnaire ◽  
Digital Books ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
Perioperative Monitoring

Abstract Background: mHealth, the practice of medicine aided by mobile devices is a growing market. Although the offer on Anesthesia applications (Apps) is quite prolific, representative formal assessments on the views of anesthesia practitioners on its use and potential place in daily practice is lacking. This survey aimed thus to cross-assess the Belgian anesthesia population on the use of smartphone Apps and peripherals.Methods: The survey was exclusively distributed as an online anonymous questionnaire. Sharing took place via hyperlink forwarding by the Belgian Society for Anesthesia and Reanimation (BSAR) and by the Belgian Association for Regional Anesthesia (BARA) to all registered members. The first answer took place on 5 September 2018, the last on 22 January 2019. Results: 349 answers were obtained (26.9% corresponding to trainees, 73.1% to specialists). Anesthesiologists were positively confident that Apps and peripherals could help improve anesthesia care (57.0% and 47.9%, respectively, scored 4 or 5, in a scale from 0 - 5). Trainees were significantly more confident than specialists on both mobile Apps (71.2% and 51.8%, respectively; p = 0.001) and peripherals (77.7% and 45.1%, respectively; p = 0.09).The usefulness of Apps and Peripherals was rated 1 or below (on a 0 to 5 scale), respectively, by 9.5% and 14.6% of the total surveyed population, being specialists proportionally less confident in Smartphone peripherals than trainees (p = 0.008). Mobile apps are actively used by a significantly higher proportional number of trainees (67.0% vs. 37.3%, respectively; p = 0.000001).The preferred category of mobile Apps was dose-calculating applications (39.15%), followed by digital books (21.1%) and Apps for active perioperative monitoring (20.0%).Conclusions: Belgian Anesthesia practitioners show a global positive attitude towards smartphone Apps and Peripherals, with trainees trending to be more confident than specialists.

scholarly journals Actually existing smart citizens: expertise and (non)participation in the making of the smart city

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor Shelton ◽  
Thomas Lodato
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Top Down ◽  
The World ◽  
Number Of Individuals

In response to the mounting criticism of emerging ‘smart cities’ strategies around the world, a number of individuals and institutions have attempted to pivot from discussions of smart cities towards a focus on ‘smart citizens’. While the smart citizen is most often seen as a kind of foil for those more stereotypically top-down, neoliberal, and repressive visions of the smart city that have been widely critiqued within the literature, this paper argues for an attention to the ‘actually existing smart citizen’, which plays a much messier and more ambivalent role in practice. This paper proposes the dual figures of ‘the general citizen’ and ‘the absent citizen’ as a heuristic for thinking about how the lines of inclusion and exclusion are drawn for citizens, both discursively and materially, in the actual making of the smart city. These figures are meant to highlight how the universal and unspecified figure of ‘the citizen’ is discursively deployed to justify smart city policies, while at the same time, actual citizens remain largely excluded from such decision and policy-making processes. Using a case study of Atlanta, Georgia and its ongoing smart cities initiatives, we argue that while the participation of citizens is crucial to any truly democratic mode of urban governance, the emerging discourse around the promise of smart citizenship fails to capture the realities of how citizens are actually discussed and enrolled in the making of these policies.

scholarly journals THE PROBLEM OF THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE OBJECT OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN CONTEXT IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CITY’S MASTER PLAN SOLUTIONS / KRAŠTOVAIZDŽIO ARCHITEKTŪROS OBJEKTO IR URBANISTINIO KONTEKSTO SĄVEIKOS PROBLEMA ĮGYVENDINANT MIESTŲ BENDRŲJŲ PLANŲ SPRENDINIUS

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-64
Author(s):  
Vaiva Deveikienė
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
City Management ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Master Plans ◽  
Territorial Planning ◽  
Management And Development ◽  
Study Methodology

The article discusses the interaction of the object of landscape architecture and urban context in the processes of territorial planning, in which the guidelines of city management and development are coded. Considering that the field of landscape architecture includes and deals with the issues of links between nature and built environment infrastructure, on the level of planning, issues of protection and adaptation for the use of natural structures, the development of urbanized natural environment objects and their systems and the interaction between natural and urban frame are all included in the field of the competencies of landscape architecture and urbanism and in the search of sustainable relationship. Based on case study methodology, this article analyses the examples of master plans of different Lithuanian cities (Vilnius, Utena, Rokiškis, Biržai), focusing on the problem of the interaction between natural structures and urbanistic solutions. Besides general city plans, the study analyses conclusions of Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) documents and monitorings that best reflect the problem of implementing the solutions of interaction between landscape architecture and urban context. Using a comparative method, the Lithuanian experience is analysed in the light of the latest global urbanistic theories and trends, which widen the field of interaction between landscape architecture and urbanism. Straipsnyje aptariama kraštovaizdžio architektūros objekto ir urbanistinio konteksto sąveika teritorinio planavimo procesuose, kuriuose iš esmės yra koduojamos miesto tvarkymo ir vystymo gairės. Atsižvelgiant į tai, kad kraštovaizdžio architektūros sritis apima ir sprendžia natūralios gamtos ir sukurtos aplinkos infrastruktūros sąsajų klausimus, planavimo lygmenyje gamtinių struktūrų apsaugos ir pritaikymo naudoti, urbanizuotos gamtinės aplinkos objektų ir jų sistemų kūrimo, gamtinio ir urbanistinio karkasų sąveikos klausimai patenka į kraštovaizdžio architektūros ir urbanistikos kompetencijų ir darnaus santykio paieškos lauką. Taikant atvejo analizės metodą, straipsnyje nagrinėjami atskirų Lietuvos miestų (Vilniaus, Utenos, Rokiškio, Biržų) bendrųjų planų pavyzdžiai, dėmesį sutelkiant į gamtinių struktūrų ir urbanistinių sprendinių sąveikos problematiką. Be bendrųjų planų, tyrimo metu nagrinėjamas Strateginio poveikio aplinkai vertinimo (SPAV) dokumentų, monitoringų išvados, labiausiai atspindinčios kraštovaizdžio ir urbanistinio konteksto sąveikos sprendinių realizavimo problematiką. Lietuvos patirtis palyginamuoju metodu nagrinėjama naujausių pasaulinių urbanistinių teorijų ir tendencijų, praplečiančių kraštovaizdžio ir urbanistikos sąveikos lauką, aspektu.

scholarly journals Why Gayborhoods Matter: The Street Empirics of Urban Sexualities

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amin Ghaziani
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Land Values ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
Growth Machine ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Spatial Expressions

AbstractUrbanists have developed an extensive set of propositions about why gay neighborhoods form, how they change, shifts in their significance, and their spatial expressions. Existing research in this emerging field of “gayborhood studies” emphasizes macro-structural explanatory variables, including the economy (e.g., land values, urban governance, growth machine politics, affordability, and gentrification), culture (e.g., public opinions, societal acceptance, and assimilation), and technology (e.g., geo-coded mobile apps, online dating services). In this chapter, I use the residential logics of queer people—why they in their own words say that they live in a gay district—to show how gayborhoods acquire their significance on the streets. By shifting the analytic gaze from abstract concepts to interactions and embodied perceptions on the ground—a “street empirics” as I call it—I challenge the claim that gayborhoods as an urban form are outmoded or obsolete. More generally, my findings caution against adopting an exclusively supra-individual approach in urban studies. The reasons that residents provide for why their neighborhoods appeal to them showcase the analytic power of the streets for understanding what places mean and why they matter.

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