Jorgos Coenen

KU Leuven | ku leuven · Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning

Our built environment is becoming increasingly equipped with public displays, many of which are networked and share the same physical location. In spite of their ubiquitous presence and inherent dynamic functionalities, the presence of multiple public displays is often not exploited, such as to solve dynamic wayfinding challenges in crowded or comp...

This paper investigates a novel approach to simultaneously use the qualities of touch and mid-air gestures or floor mat interaction on a public display. We demonstrate that although the concurrent use of multiple interaction modalities appeared functionally possible and has the potential to augment a single display with both personal and public fun...

We present the design process of Like to Display, which is a Do-it-yourself public visualization kit that can be spatially distributed, which empowers citizens to display a concern. The kit includes a range of small, wireless e-ink displays that allow citizens to distribute and collect data in the public space surrounding their home. An accompanyin...

Novel social, civic or entertainment opportunities might emerge when spatially distributed public displays become interlinked in meaningful ways. Yet little is still known about the effect of intrinsic design dimensions, such as how multiple displays should be spatially arranged, how their content should be linked, and how their locations and conte...

In this demo we introduce our ongoing research on how to leverage the situated visualization of open and citizen science data within public space to inform and engage citizens. We developed an open-source toolkit, coined "Citizen Dialogue Kit" that is able to convey data visualizations on a set of interactive, wirelessly networked displays that can...

In recent years, research in the fields of Media Architecture and urban informatics have made calls to move beyond the human-centred city and towards a “more equitable multispecies city” (Van Dooren & Rose, 2012). Working towards future more-than-human cities, the design of hybrid digital-physical urban spaces - with an ethos of inclusivity and div...

Popular sports tracking applications allow athletes to share and compare their personal performance data with others. Visualizing this data in relevant public settings can be beneficial in provoking novel types of opportunistic and communal sense‐making. We investigated this premise by situating an analytical visualization of running performances o...

The proliferation of Internet-of-Things devices in urban environments empower citizens to appropriate data for civic purposes. Simultaneously, public visualization has shown to engage a wide audience with data by situating its graphical representation within the actual environment of its measurements. We thus propose a public visualization and poll...

A frequently heard complaint about hospital visits is the long waiting time. When planning to build a new ambulatory centre, the university hospital under study decided to approach this waiting in an alternative way. Instead of extended waiting areas for each consultation, they opted for one general waiting zone. Additionally, the hospital wanted t...

The material environment impacts on patients’ wellbeing and healing process. In complex and hard-to-enter healthcare settings, architects and other designers have difficulty to collect information about patients' experience; hospital boards and facility managers experience difficulties to approach their familiar environment from a patient perspecti...

For patients a hospital visit is a profound experience influenced by their mental and physical state in that moment. Various aspects of the hospital environment play a role in their experience. For most patients communicating about this expe-rience in all its complexity is a difficult task. This difficulty impedes designers’ and hospital profession...

This paper reports on a case study that investigated the potential of tangible displays as a means to communicate data-driven facts to lay people. We developed an interactive application that communicated health-related correlations on a set of Sifteo displays, and compared it to a traditional screen-based graphical interface conveying identical in...