Toward the participatory human-centred community an exploration of cyber-physical public design for urban experience

Abstract

With the development of information technology, designing urban experience faces an unprecedented challenge: the combination of cyber information and physical facilities. Cyber-Physical Social System (CPSS) forms the connection between virtual and physical objects, public and private, activeness and passiveness, leading an innovative way to explore human-centred design practice in the context of city and community. The challenges faced by urban communities and extend the design practice of SPSS in combination with public participation community design and Living Lab method. Through three practical cases and related evaluation feedbacks, this study presents a Cyber-Physical Public Design (CPPD) model of a human city. The CPPD model is constructed based on CPSS with the human-centred concept. By combining physical touch points with virtual information world, it is possible to collect data on residents’ lives and improve the city's public facilities and space design, rebuild the urban communities to better meet the needs of the public.

Keywords

• software engineering
• user interfaces
• human computer interaction
• human factors
• information technology
• user centred design
• participatory human-centred community
• urban experience
• information technology
• unprecedented challenge
• cyber information
• physical facilities
• CPSS
• virtual objects
• physical objects
• activeness
• passiveness
• human-centred design practice
• urban communities
• public participation community design
• human city
• human-centred concept
• physical touch points
• virtual information world
• cyber-physical social system
• cyber-physical public design model