Paper: SUPERHUB: Integrating behaviour change theories into a sustainable urban-mobility platform

• Abstract: The SUPERHUB project (SUstainable and PERsuasive Human Users moBility in future cities) promotes the creation of a new urban mobility services ecosystem to facilitate the take-up of environmentally sustainable behaviours. It will design and test an open platform able to combine in real time all mobility offers from the relevant stakeholders together with a set of enabling mobility services able to address users’ mobility needs and to foster behavioural change. This paper explores how SUPERHUB plans to integrate behaviour change theories.
• Paper Link: Will be posted after the workshop
• Presentation Link: Will be posted after the presentation at the workshop
• Citation: P. J. Forbes, S. Wells, J. Masthoff, "SUPERHUB: Integrating behaviour change theories into a sustainable urban-mobility platform", (2012), in Proceedings of Using Technology to Facilitate Behaviour Change and Support Healthy, Sustainable Living @ HCI 2012

Visualising Timelines of Research in Argumentation Theory

One way to get an overview of research is to visualise the timeline of activities in that area. This is what I attempted to do with my timeline of dialectical/dialogue game research which will be available in an upcoming publication (currently in press, more information when I have it).

However, what I didn't like was that the journal publication is very static, and that the research is ongoing. What I wanted was something that was more dynamic and which could be easily updated with references to either new research that is performed or to newly discovered obscure publications that contribute to the story. To this end I have started The Chronos Project which uses some exciting new technologies to dynamically generate the timeline in your browser.

The aim was to produce a self-contained set of files which can be easily incorporated into any website. A Chronos distribution is simply a folder containing an html file, some javascript libraries, and some CSS to make things look nice. As well as the online visualisation, you can retrieve the pdf rendering of the timeline either from figshare or from the Chronos Git Repo.

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Chronos uses the CanViz project to render xdot files directly onto an HTML 5 canvas within your browser.

Publication: SUPERHUB Deliverable D1.1 - Scenarios

Abstract: The SUPERHUB project aims at realizing a new services mobility framework supporting an integrated and eco-efficient use of multi-modal mobility systems in an urban setting. SUPERHUB provides a user-centric, integrated approach to multi-modal smart metropolitan mobility systems by means of an open platform able to combine in real time various mobility offers and provide a set of mobility services able to address user needs, promote user participation and foster environmentally friendly and energy–efficient behavioural changes.
The deliverable D1.1, "Scenarios" provide a first version of the SUPERHUB usage scenarios and hence the functionality that SUPERHUB shall provide, informed by user research. This encompasses (i) a first identification of the stakeholders and end-users of SUPERHUB, (ii) a first identification of the most relevant usage scenarios, (iii) a first establishment of user research methodology for SUPERHUB, and (iv) the first user research into what problems citizens and other stakeholders currently experience, their opinions on the scenarios, and their expectations of SUPERHUB.
From an operational stand-point, Deliverable D1.1 marks a milestone in the project work plan, in that it will effectively kick-off the user centred design activities of WP6 and the user trial methodology activities of WP8, and provides enough insight into the envisaged SUPERHUB functionality (further elaborated in the initial requirements specification which is not part of this deliverable and will result in deliverable D1.2) to allow the technical WPs to start designing their sub systems. The scenarios elucidated in this deliverable will be refined in Deliverable D1.4 ("Final scenarios, requirements specification, KPIs and guidelines for validation ", due at M24)

Paper Link: Will be posted to & made available from the SUPERHUB EU Project website very soon.

Citation: Masthoff et al., "SUPERHUB Deliverable D1.1 - Scenarios", (2012).