Quick Meeting wih PhD Advisor

Design for navigation between bus lines
We discussed the opportunity to contribute to a project on the reorganization of the Barcelona bus network. Participants would include Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona, Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona, and known private ubiquitous companies. I would be involved in design of bus line exchange modalities. One could think of recreating an metro station on a open street level. Examples include the Curitiba (Brazil) bus stops. LBS, ambient displays and NFC would be used to recreate the underground metaphor. I will to write a small proposal on the navigational aspect of such environment. It could be named “supporting navigation in bus line exchange” and I plan to suggest the investigation the access to relevant contextual information, their modalities and constraints. It made me also thing about recent Georges Amar (RATP) interview after a workshop on locative media at upFing06. He suggests that the metro stations should become place for exchange. Instead of being a constraint to fluidity, the crowd could become a resource for relations (“foule sentimentale“). On the same subject, current theme of “Les Brèves Chronos” is about “Naviguer en mobilité in situ“.

I shall pitch “new but useful” ideas as well as a few “crazy things”.

Curitiba bus stops

22@ WiFi coverage
He pointed me to a document describing the ICING city testbeds. The wireless coverage to support ubiquitous mobile wireless broadband access to the services is slim to my view. A wireless access service will cover eight concrete areas including bus stops, parking zones, and the major companies installed in the 22@ district. Well, I could take advantage of such a patchy network.

Moreover, plenty of CCTV cameras will be installed all around the district to check the traffic, plan traffic lights and create mobility matrixes (global overview of the cars movements).

Pending meetings
I have a pending visit with the Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona. The goal would be to collaborate in the data gathering and visualizing of their Mobility, accessibility and public space projects, or even agent modeling (e.g. Modeling mobility in Barcelona).

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I also have a pending meeting with Miquel Oliver to discuss the 22@ wireless coverage and possibilities for me to setup a pervasive environment for my next experiment.

Doctoral school
I need to select 2 courses for this year’s doctoral school. I plan to attend the Research Method course given to master’s students and the class on Management of Technological Innovation. Backup is Mobility and Integration of Fixed and Wireless Networks.

Digital Cinema simulation
On the business game we plan to build with INSEAD within the context of digital cinema, I could think of ways to investigate the geographically aspects of distributed/dispatched organization.