What Smart Campuses Can Teach Us about Smart Cities: User Experiences and Open Data

Vasileva, Roza; Rodrigues, Lucelia; Hughes, Nancy; Greenhalgh, Chris; Goulden, Murray; Tennison, Jeni

doi:10.3390/info9100251

What Smart Campuses Can Teach Us about Smart Cities: User Experiences and Open Data

Vasileva, Roza; Rodrigues, Lucelia; Hughes, Nancy; Greenhalgh, Chris; Goulden, Murray; Tennison, Jeni

Authors

Roza Vasileva

Prof LUCELIA RODRIGUES Lucelia.Rodrigues@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Sustainable & Resilient Cities

Dr NANCY HUGHES Nancy.Hughes@nottingham.ac.uk
Senior Ux Researcher

CHRIS GREENHALGH CHRIS.GREENHALGH@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Computer Science

MURRAY GOULDEN MURRAY.GOULDEN@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Associate Professor

Jeni Tennison

Abstract

Universities, like cities, have embraced novel technologies and data based solutions to improve their campuses with ‘smart’ becoming a welcomed concept. Campuses in many ways are small-scale cities. They increasingly seek to address similar challenges and to deliver improved experiences to their users. How can data be used in making this vision a reality? What can we learn from smart campuses that can be scaled up to smart cities? A short research study was conducted over a three-month period at a public university in the United Kingdom, employing stakeholder interviews and user surveys, which aimed to gain insight into these questions. Based on the study, the authors suggest that making data publicly available could bring many benefits to different groups of stakeholders and campus users. These benefits come with risks and challenges, such as data privacy and protection and infrastructure hurdles. However, if these challenges can be overcome, then open data could contribute significantly to improving campuses and user experiences, and potentially set an example for smart cities.

Citation

Vasileva, R., Rodrigues, L., Hughes, N., Greenhalgh, C., Goulden, M., & Tennison, J. (2018). What Smart Campuses Can Teach Us about Smart Cities: User Experiences and Open Data. Information, 9(10), 251-264. https://doi.org/10.3390/info9100251

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Oct 6, 2018
Online Publication Date	Oct 12, 2018
Publication Date	Oct 12, 2018
Deposit Date	Nov 24, 2018
Publicly Available Date	Nov 26, 2018
Electronic ISSN	2078-2489
Publisher	MDPI
Peer Reviewed	Not Peer Reviewed
Volume	9
Issue	10
Pages	251-264
DOI	https://doi.org/10.3390/info9100251
Keywords	Smart City, Smart Campus, Open-Data
Public URL	https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1306068
Contract Date	Nov 24, 2018