Enabling citizen participation in urban planning by using Augmented Reality

Copyright held by the owner/author(s). CHI’20,, April 25–30, 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA ACM 978-1-4503-6819-3/20/04. https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.XXXXXXX Abstract In many German cities, there has been a lack of citizen participation in urban and regional development processes, especially as young citizens are not motivated to get involved. Therefore, an Augmented Reality-App is to be developed as a gamification aspect in order to encourage intrinsic motivation and thus contribute to increased citizen participation. This paper presents the state-of-the-art of the research project Creactive Citizen. As a human-centereddesign approach, the citizens were integrated into the design process of the AR system to ensure usability based on their user needs. For example, in order to make possible building projects comprehensible for all citizens, the focus is on visualization possibilities through Augmented Reality (AR). To ensure an exchange, voting, comments, and discussions should be made possible. Nevertheless, we have encountered some challenges that need to be further explored concerning the design process and technical AR procedures.