Living in a Smart City: Reflections on the future

SAIC Mentions the class in campus newsletter:Happening at SAIC the Week of 5/16/11

Mon, 16 May 2011 09:42:27 -0500

AIADO faculty member George Aye and students in his class “Living in a Smart City” were featured online in Fast Company magazine Friday (5/6), as Aye and his class were the recipients of a $10,000 “Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation Award” from IBM. “What if the smartest solutions to urban problems don’t necessarily lie in computer science departments?” asks writer Greg Lindsay, who continues, “Shouldn’t they be teaching this stuff in architecture and planning departments as well? They are—at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago this semester. The class is the brainchild of George Aye, a professor of design at SAIC, a former IDEO consultant, and the founder of his own Greater Good Studio.” The article goes on to include quotes from SAIC students Karl Williamson, Josiah Ball, and Kristen Campbell Hansen.

Thanks to Steve Vance for capturing our ‘top down’...

Mon, 16 May 2011 00:17:26 -0500

Thanks to Steve Vance for capturing our ‘top down’ video projection of our ‘scramble crosswalk’.

Way to rock the final presentation class!!!

Wed, 11 May 2011 15:41:27 -0500

Way to rock the final presentation class!!!

Great feedback from our panelists on the Chicago Marathon...

Wed, 11 May 2011 15:22:00 -0500

Great feedback from our panelists on the Chicago Marathon project.

Q&A Part 2: Chicago Marathon

Wed, 11 May 2011 15:12:30 -0500

Q&A Part 2: Chicago Marathon

Marathon solutions abound.

Wed, 11 May 2011 15:03:21 -0500

Marathon solutions abound.

Part 2: Chicago Marathon

Wed, 11 May 2011 14:52:14 -0500

Part 2: Chicago Marathon

Getting feedback before moving on to Part 2: Chicago Marathon!

Wed, 11 May 2011 14:32:00 -0500

Getting feedback before moving on to Part 2: Chicago Marathon!

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Wed, 11 May 2011 14:02:10 -0500

Q&A session for part one of the presentation.

Wed, 11 May 2011 13:57:08 -0500

Q&A session for part one of the presentation.

The model is mind blowing! Real time traffic animations and an...

Wed, 11 May 2011 13:45:58 -0500

The model is mind blowing! Real time traffic animations and an amazing pedestrian solution via scramble crosswalks.

Live from Room 1227 at SAIC.

Wed, 11 May 2011 13:33:01 -0500

Live from Room 1227 at SAIC.

We’re off and running!! Thanks to our fantastic panel for...

Wed, 11 May 2011 13:17:16 -0500

We’re off and running!! Thanks to our fantastic panel for being here to help us out in our final presentation.

Prepping the final presentation!

Wed, 11 May 2011 09:54:23 -0500

Prepping the final presentation!

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Sun, 08 May 2011 11:04:48 -0500

Class Meeting

George Aye and Baby Aye

Class Meeting #2

Class Meeting #3

Google Making Search Results more personal -Beta

Thu, 05 May 2011 16:01:12 -0500

Google Making Search Results more personal -Beta:

Google is displaying relevant results to searches from within your social circle when you are signed into a Google account. I noticed it when it happened to me while searching

Seemed a lot like an app we developed in class the other day: a...

Mon, 02 May 2011 20:52:09 -0500

Seemed a lot like an app we developed in class the other day: a car insurance app that kept an eye on your driving so that over time, it reduced your insurance when you acted like a good driver.

But this app DOESN’T adjust your rates. So why would anyone want to use it?!

Presentation Timeline & Revised Assignments

Sun, 01 May 2011 12:23:55 -0500

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
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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
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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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