Impact of ICT-Mediated Collective Awareness on Urban Mobility

Kashif Zia, Alois Ferscha, Ahmad Din, Khurram Shahzad, Awais Majeed

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Abstract

Purpose This paper studies the influence of information and communication technologies on human reasoning and decision making. It investigates the potential impact of ambient intelligence on change in pedestrian mobility behavior, using a large city-scale scenario. Methods This work establishes an interplay between social and technological aspects of awareness by augmenting a model-driven framework of a realistic information eco-system. A distributed multi-agent system is developed to model a real-life urban mobility environment. The model is then simulated using a large scale parallel computing platform. Results Evaluation results revealed that the quality of information in ambient-assisted environments increases when compared with those without ambient intelligence. Conclusion We conclude that there is a positive correlation between the extent of information being shared in a socially-inspired information eco-systems and the level of collective awareness in an urban mobility scenario.
Original languageEnglish
Article number10
Number of pages23
JournalComplex Adaptive Systems Modeling
Volume4
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2016

Fields of science

  • 102 Computer Sciences
  • 102009 Computer simulation
  • 102013 Human-computer interaction
  • 102019 Machine learning
  • 102021 Pervasive computing
  • 102022 Software development
  • 102025 Distributed systems

JKU Focus areas

  • Computation in Informatics and Mathematics
  • Engineering and Natural Sciences (in general)

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