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This report provides in a relative condensed format the results of small-scale study undertaken in Lisbon during the
Meeting of the CyberParks Project (www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/tud/Actions/TU1306). CyberParks is a COST Action
coordinated by the Universidade Lusófona at the CeiED - Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and
Development. The Project aims at creating a research platform on the relationship between Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) and the production of public open spaces, and their relevance to sustainable urban
development. The impacts of this relationship are being explored from social, ecological, urban design and technological
perspectives.
Based on the supposition that the participants of the Meeting are tourists visiting Lisbon, a survey was carried out on
the topic how people actually use and how they would use public spaces. This survey is also the first approach to the
case study areas chosen in Lisbon: Parque Quinta das Conchas and Jardim da Estrela. Both green spaces will be subject
of further studies in the forthcoming years.
This study employed (1) a questionnaire for measuring the user’s experience and preferences, and (2) two different
tracking devices that utilise GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems), in our case the GPS for satellite positioning
technologies. It also presents the results of a study on the relevance of wi-fi in Lisbon’s public spaces. Even considering
that the surveys in Lisbon’s green spaces are a first exercise within the work programme of CyberParks they show
important outcomes. On the one hand, regarding the technologies used and their potential for research and on the
other hand the findings about Lisbon’s green spaces. It should be noted that the conducted surveys and the gathered
data are statistically not representative, but can be characterised as an empirical case and as a showcase, as how
tourists tend to use a green space. The results shows that surveys benefit from multiple research methods and from
combining insights. |
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