The Ubiquitous Interaction (Uix) research group couples human-computer interaction studies with design in the area of novel interfaces (mobile, ubiquitous, multimodal, mixed reality). The goal is to contribute to technology development efforts by deepening our understanding of human and technological issues relevant in the use of new technologies.
The CityWall has been developed as part of IPCity. The research goal of the IPCity project is to investigate analytical and technological approaches to presence in real life settings. Analytically, this includes extending the approaches to presence accounting for the participative and social constitution of presence, the multiplicity and distribution of events in time and space.
Technologically, this translates into developing portable environments for on-site configuration, mobile and light-weight mixed reality interfaces with the ambition to weave them into 'the fabric of everyday life'. Methodologically, this calls for moving 'out of the lab' with field trials in real settings, applying a triangulation of disciplines and methods for evaluation. These range from interpretative-ethnographic to quasi-experimental approaches and include cognitive science, social-psychological, and cultural-anthropological disciplines.
The vision of the IPCity project is to provide citizens, visitors, as well as professionals involved in city development or the organisation of events with a set of technologies that enable them to collaboratively envision, debate emerging developments, experience past and future views or happenings of their local urban environment, discovering new aspects of their city.
