the public spaces in our today’s lives involve many sorts of activities, and the design of such spaces requires a wide range of studies. one of the critical studies in our country, due to its climatic variety, is about the thermal comfort of public outdoor spaces. this article has been conducted to investigate about possible architecture and landscape architecture design measurements which coul...

Public spaces are interactive by the very fact that they are designed to be looked at, walked around, and used by multitudes of people on a daily basis. Architects design such spaces to create physical scenarios for people to interact with, but this interaction will usually be one sidedthe physical space does not usually change or react. In this paper we present three interaction design project...

For my doctoral research I am exploring the potential and challenges of large display information visualizations in public settings such as museums. The combination of information visualization as a means to represent abstract data and interactive display technologies, shows great potential for engaging visitor experiences. However, public spaces with their diverse audience and distractions int...

Traditional dynamic arts have much to offer and it is time to explore how the elements and techniques from stage performances could contribute to interaction design. We try to apply performance techniques and elements from dynamic art forms in the design process of interactive art installations for public spaces. Currently we try not to identify new technologies; instead we investigate how the ...

In this paper, we present a mobile communication and display device that learns gesture and color information collected by the user. We introduce the design prototype of a display that combines multi-modal sensing, embedded adaptive algorithms and a flexible color display. We propose an approach to the exchange of inter-personal information through transient public interfaces.

The project uses Hong Kong as an testing example to figure out the possibilities of combine digital space with physical public spaces, thus further reinforcing the social interaction. As the society of Hong Kong now is tending to be digitalized, the existing physical public space, which was designed in the past can not reflect changing and digitalizing society anymore. This makes the physical p...

This paper provides a discussion of issues relating to public places, urban planning and community crime prevention. The first part of the paper examines the social nature of public space from the point of view of ownership, uses and users, urban design and regulation. The second part of the paper explores the application of crime prevention approaches and techniques to the planning and managem...

SUMMARY With the introduction of information and communication technologies into our homes and the different physical and communicative expressions this implies for our living spaces the concepts of being private and of being public becomes crucial. In this paper we introduce the design pattern language, developed by Christopher Alexander in the 1970s, in order to handle these problems systemat...