Use Cases



This system can have a multitude of different uses:

(1) Rediscovering Urban Surroundings. Users will be able to 'see' the area in which they live in a new light. They will be able to concentrate on the network of people that inhabit the area that they believe they are familiar with and which they experience inattentively on a daily basis.

(2) Visiting a New Area. This will allow users to be a tourist in an entirely different way. The factual and sightseeing tour will most likely still be important to them, but this will add a new facet to their knowledge of an area. Their experience will involve more than the semantic charge given to the city by its history and its districts, landmarks, and monuments.

(3) Urban Developement. Users in charge of 'renewing' an area or significantly affecting it will be able to get a sense of the identity of the people they will be affecting.

It is easy to believe that an architect is assigned a space cut from a larger whole, that [s]he takes this portion of space as a 'given' and works on it according to his tastes, technical skills, ideas and preferences. In actuality, that space is a part of a larger network and should be treated as such.

(4) Visitor Impressions. Tourists will be able to give feedback on their experience. Other tourists will get a sense of what they can expect and the area visited will be able to pinpoint what they should improve.