The future of urban computing - Nicolas Nova

Will more technology will improve urban life?

Nicolas Nova is researcher at the Media and Design Lab at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne and one of the editors of the annual LiftConference. An expert on user experience and interface design, his research focuses on urban computing, so on how people use technology infrastructure in cities and urban environments. He says that the future of cities it is not about technology, it is about human needs, about what people want. In this interview he explains examples of the intelligent use of urban computing, like "Real-time Rome", a project realized by the MIT in the Italian capital.

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• infonomia
• urban
• computing
• medialab
• technology
• user
• experience
• EPFL
• Lausanne

[Mirweissangin]

This guy should definitely grow a mustache 8-[D