ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses feedback loop by influence of city contexts and digital contents in the design of intuitive urban interfaces. The drive toward urbanization has become one of the defining trends of the twenty-first century. Cities are already the de facto habitat of humankind, with data showing that more than 54% of humanity lives in urban environments. Urban interaction is a large extent an emerging field, and, as pointed out by Blackler and Hurtienne, "for very new technology which has none of its own conventions, a metaphor which relates to something that is familiar to the users would need to be applied". Hespanhol and Tomitsch presented an analysis of interactive design strategies for intuitive interaction, using as examples urban interventions developed during their research as well as those developed by others. Designs of large interactive public environments have traditionally resorted to three main strategies for input mechanisms: mobile devices, consoles, and gesture-based full-body interactions.
