Conference & Journal Paper
Curated City: Capturing Individual City Guides Through Social Curation
Justin Cranshaw, Kurt Luther, Patrick Gage Kelley, Norman Sadeh
Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14), 3249–3258, 2014
April 2014
Abstract
We report on our design of Curated City, a website that lets people build their own personal guide to the city's neighborhoods by chronicling their favorite experiences. Although users make their own personal guides, they are immersed in a social curatorial experience where they are influenced directly and indirectly by the guides of others. We use a 2-week field trial involving 20 residents of Pittsburgh as a technological probe to explore the initial design decisions, and we further refine the design landscape through subject interviews. Based on this study, we identify a set of design recommendations for building scalable social platforms for curating the experiences of the city.
- location-based services
- local search
- mental maps
- social computing
- neighborhoods
- urban computing
- social curation
Cite this paper
@inproceedings{cranshaw2014curated,
title = {Curated City: Capturing Individual City Guides Through Social Curation},
author = {Cranshaw, Justin and Luther, Kurt and Kelley, Patrick Gage and Sadeh, Norman},
year = {2014},
doi = {10.1145/2556288.2557401},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557401},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14), 3249–3258, 2014},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
}