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Children's Perspectives on Their Urban Environment and Their Appropriation of Public Spaces in Mexico City

Children, Youth and Environments, 2023
:This paper presents the information and knowledge that 84 school children aged 7 to 9 of the Coyoacán borough of Mexico City have regarding their everyday urban environment.
Yolanda Corona
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The publicization of public space

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2016
In this article, we start by jointly examining the shortcomings contained in the substantial definitions of publicity commonly applied to the analysis of both public spaces (physical) and public spheres (political). We propose instead to consider publicity as a potential and publicization as a process, observable both in urban spaces and in the media.
Terzi, Cédric, Tonnelat, Stéphane
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Guiding Blind Pedestrians in Public Spaces by Understanding Walking Behavior of Nearby Pedestrians

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2020
We present a guiding system to help blind people walk in public spaces while making their walking seamless with nearby pedestrians. Blind users carry a rolling suitcase-shaped system that has two RGBD Cameras, an inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensor ...
Seita Kayukawa, Tatsuya Ishihara, Hironobu Takagi, S. Morishima, C. Asakawa   +4 more
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Are People Ready for Social Robots in Public Spaces?

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020
Recent developments in robotics are potentially changing the nature of service, and research in human-robot interaction has previously shown that humanoid robots could possibly work in public spaces.
Sofia Thunberg, T. Ziemke
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Neighbourhood-scale public spaces, inter-group attitudes and migrant integration in Beijing, China

Urban studies, 2020
Cities worldwide face the challenge of persistent social polarisation that is exacerbated by the mass migration of populations. Scholars have debated whether the planning of public spaces, which presumably fosters inter-group encounter, potentially ...
Zhilin Liu, Yiming Tan, Y. Chai
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Dancing in public spaces: an exploratory study on China’s Grooving Grannies

Leisure Studies, 2020
In contemporary China, public spaces are often sites for group leisure activities. In the last ten years, the most notable group leisure activity is Guangchangwu (广场舞) which translates as dancing in the public squares.
Min-tser Lin, J. Bao, Erwei Dong
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Public Education and the Public Space

Educational Researcher, 1982
are continually reminded that we can no longer assume the existence of a consensus where the purposes of public education are concerned; nor can we assume consensus when it comes to professional expertise. It is obvious that faith in the promise of public schools has eroded, along with confidence in what they can offer to the young. We are all aware of
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The movement of public space

2020
Public squares and spaces have traditionally been the fixed and clearly defined physical location of public activity. In contemporary situations however, changes have occurred that are specifically linked to a greater prevalence of mobility: ‘The Mobilities Turn’.
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Designing Co-Creative AI for Public Spaces

Creativity & Cognition, 2019
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly pervasive in our everyday lives. There are consequently many common misconceptions about what AI is, what it is capable of, and how it works. Compounding the issue, opportunities to learn about AI are
D. Long, Mikhail Jacob, Brian Magerko
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Public Space, Media Space

2013
Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction C.Berry, J.Harbord & R.O.Moore What Is a Screen Nowadays? F.Casetti Multi-Screen Architecture B.Colomina Mapping Orbit: Towards a Vertical Public Space L.Parks Cairo Diary: Space-Wars, Public Visibility and the Transformation of Public Space in Post-Revolutionary Egypt M.Abaza Shanghai's Public Screen ...
Chris Berry, Rachel Moore, Janet Harbord
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