Living in a Smart City: Reflections on the future

May 11

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May 08

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May 05

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May 01

Presentation Timeline & Revised Assignments

1. Agenda:
    Agenda & introductions (George Intro)
    Project overview
    3 parts
        Part A- Street Level (intersection)
        Q & A
        Part B-Local Interventions (intersection & incident)
        Q&A
        Part C- City Wide & marathon
        Q&A
    george wrap-up

2. Introduction by George
3. Project Overview (George)
    Take out square graph & smoothed out graph (
4. Site Issues—redo slide, make images bigger (David)
5. Overview of street level interventions
    Cut— Island incorporation, street lights, passenger aware bus stop,
6. Wicker Park Corridor Start
    Add Section drawing of corridor with dimension (Shay)
    Timing of the intersection (Megan)
    Rendering of gate, add trees, ground graphics (Karl)
7. Loading Bays
    Rendering, add trees (Karl)
8. Smart Pole (Tier 2, could be cut if needed)
    Loading bay active schedule. mention why allies are not feasible. Make light more glowy.
    Features of smart pole
9. Scramble Crosswalk
    Show Precedents & research (Megan)
    Rendering
    Start Scramble crosswalk projection    
        Tier 2-compare original to new
10. Smart Traffic Signal
    Precedents (Dave)
    Show how traffic signal works
    Redo rendering of smart traffic signal, place in context. make red light octogon(Kristen)
11. Smart Corner & Traffic Hub
    (change slide to “Soft Corner & Transit Hub)
    Remove passenger aware bus stop (Dave)
    Put one light for traffic signal (Kristen)
12. Coyote Building/Transit Hub (no changes) 2 slides
13. App
    New Name: Chicago App
    Add in new tabs, mention later in presentation (heat/activity map-retitle for UI)
    (potentially add background image) (Dave & Karl, Sun,)
    A. Direct Travel
    B. Augmented reality—social connectivity, geotagged info, twitter, Facebook, flickr filter system (Dave, John)
14. Ending Image Alert (Incident)
15. Part I Summary

16. Interviews—take out all but bus and police officer, add in image?
17. Current Response Graphic
    Lose the graphic, add in images (causes backup & congestion)
    Re-illustrate graphic 
18. Timeline of incident response
    Simplify timeline graphic—starts with accident, all icons are above the line, word (Sun)descriptions below the line
19. Car crash animation
20. 911 Call
21. Dispatch Screens, Review, Loop opens up
    take out bus camera system
22. Assessment of accident (tagging)
23. Instant Detour
    redo traffic light rendering, make red light square into an octagon (Kristen)
24. Bounding Box animation
25. Instant Detour traffic signal street level & map
    show route of where the car would have gone, and where it goes w/ instant detour (Kristen)(comparison)
26. Instant detour stop sign street level & map
    Take out stop sign alone image, just show gif
    add in comparison of paths (Kristen)
27. Responsive Infrastructure, UI for tablet
    add in rendering of tablet in context (Zach)
28. Transit Alert Platform
    reduce text on rendering of bus (Kevin)
    cut to delay notice on inside of the bus—no date no time (Kevin)
29. Part 2 Summary


30. Timeline Graphic (Sun)
31. Marathon Overall structure, map view, summary
    Approach: making the marathon festival known worldwide
    Show precedents of other city-wide events (SXSW, Mardi gras)(Shay)
    Show Chicago Marathon Festival Map & Advertisements,(Shay)     
32.Pre Marathon notifications-
        marathon countdown ads (Ru Yuan) Chicago Marathon Festival Ads (in context) (Shay)
        parking notices/rfid (Sam)
        marathon route graphics on street (Dan)
        bus stop reroute signage *Tier 2*(Karl)
33. Individual Causes (web based) (Megan & Sia, John)
    kickstarter-esque precedents
    Facebook connections to causes
34. Spectator App (Dave,
    BoCode research/bib redesign (color coding for causes) (Kevin)
    Web Based Spectator Page Tier 2 (Dave)
    Augmented Reality (animation) (David)
    Tagged picture with Nationality, cause, or money raised-basic flags (layers, static images) (Sam & Kevin)
    Enhanced info of runner (cause & specs & donate button) (Sam & Kevin, Megan, Dave)
    Animation of runner seeing themselves on a tagged jumbo-tron (David)
35. Stadium Ending
    Precedents (Jae)
    Story board from runner & spectator perspective (Jae & Sarah)
36. Party Marathon  & Parallel Events
    Animation of rolling party (Kristen)
    street level view of how the party marathon works (Kristen)
    Instant detour (Kristen)
37. Temporal Trending Topography
        3 Layered graphic (framework) (Karl)
        Precedents from MIT (Karl)
        Visualization of what it would look like during a Bull’s Game (fixed location)(Zach, Dan, Karl)
        Visualization of what the marathon would look like (rolling location) (Zach, Dan, Karl)
        *All the data can be utilized by the city to plan events better in the future (talking point)
38. City App with heat map
    Small Events/Unplanned Events (Karl)
    Social connection, music (layers) (Karl & Dave)
    THE MARATHON (other layer) (Karl)

THE END?
or is it….
   
   
   
    Model/Projection Team—
        Construction Crew-Sarah, Kevin, Josiah, Sam, Ru Yuan do by mid crit-week
        Animation Crew-Dave, David, Karl, Zach, Dan,

        Projection—physical projections, construction, and animations
            -Animations for Model
            -Directional signs projected on model (N,S, E, W, Street Names)            -Call outs (buildings, interventions, etc)
            -(1 +)Scramble animation at intersection
            -(1 +)Traffic flowing through the intersection
            -Using the model as a heat map
            -Showing the marathon rolling through the intersection on the model/Traffic Tivo


       

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