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Talking Digital Cities: Connecting Heterogeneous Digital Cities Via the Universal Mobile Interface

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Digital Cities III. Information Technologies for Social Capital: Cross-cultural Perspectives (Digital Cities 2003)

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Digital Cities have been developed all over the world to provide regional city information. This paper proposes a new approach to integrate existing digital city systems via a universal mobile interface. The universal mobile interface integrates various media representations in connected digital city systems representing the same real city with audio semantic annotations. It is also applicable for a mobile use without developing a specific mobile interface. The demo system that connects three heterogeneous digital cities, namely, a 3D modeled virtual space, image-based virtual space, and map-based information space, successfully showed the connectivity of the universal interface. The current system provides the following functions: 1) a single and simple interface to navigate users into multiple digital cities, 2) a simultaneous walk-though into the connected digital cities, 3) audio descriptions of scenes using semantic annotation of objects in the connected digital cities, 4) prioritizing semantic annotation according to users’ needs.

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  1. JST CREST Digital City Project/Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Tomoko Koda

  2. Fuji Research Institute Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

    Satoshi Nakazawa

  3. Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Toru Ishida

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  1. Amsterdam School of Communication Research, ASCoR, University of Amsterdam & Department of Social Sciences, NIWI, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, P.O. Box 95110, 1090 HC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter van den Besselaar

  2. Digital City Research Center, JST CREST, Kawaramachi, Nijo bldg. 2F, 366 Ichino Funairi-cho, Nakagyo-ku, 604-0924, Kyoto, Japan

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Koda, T., Nakazawa, S., Ishida, T. (2005). Talking Digital Cities: Connecting Heterogeneous Digital Cities Via the Universal Mobile Interface. In: van den Besselaar, P., Koizumi, S. (eds) Digital Cities III. Information Technologies for Social Capital: Cross-cultural Perspectives. Digital Cities 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3081. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11407546_12

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