A SENSEable Solution to Real-time Maps

摘要

Look closely at your cell phone. Watch out! It might be looking right back at you, sending information about your location to a map, where you will join other people in your town as dynamic parts of a real-time geophysical landscape. Cell phones like these are drawing the map of the future, according to the research team behind the SENSEable City Lab. The SENSEable City Lab is a research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through the school's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Armed with sensors and wireless handheld devices, Dr. Carlo Ratti and his team of researchers are pioneering a new kind of urban planning, studying cities and college campuses and mapping individuals' realtime movements to understand how new technologies will change the way people live in the future.