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Innovation in smart city systems is based on the principle that devices, places and everyday things can each be enabled to serve people in a real-time and responsive manner. This chapter presents a novel approach to the design of smart city systems that takes into account not only technical installations in a future Internet of Things environment, but also the power of human storytelling in an always-on networked world. It is only when environments are both sensor-driven and socially-aware that a more holistic, and therefore more useful, urban narrative can emerge in the future Internet context. The present chapter proposes a new narrative-aware design framework and applies it to a hypothetical city scenario in order to highlight its main components and the benefits it may offer to a future Internet city’s actors.
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Srivastava, L., Vakali, A. (2012). Towards a Narrative-Aware Design Framework for Smart Urban Environments. In: Álvarez, F., et al. The Future Internet. FIA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7281. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30241-1_15
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