Robert Goodspeed
University of Michigan
43 Papers
86 Citations
Robert Goodspeed is an academic researcher from University of Michigan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Computer science & Urban planning. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 37 publications. Previous affiliations of Robert Goodspeed include Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Smart cities: moving beyond urban cybernetics to tackle wicked problems
TL;DR: It is argued that viewing urban problems as wicked problems allows for more fundamental solutions than urban cybernetics, but requires local innovation and stakeholder participation, and therefore the last section describes institutions for municipal innovation and IT-enabled collaborative planning.
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Planning support systems and smart cities
Stan Geertman,Joseph Ferreira,Robert Goodspeed,John Stillwell +3 more
- 01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: This study aims to classify disaster risk management for natural disasters into three stages—normal times, disaster outbreak times, and times of recovery and reconstruction—to introduce the results of development and operation of social media GIS during each of these three stages.
Using Exploratory Scenarios in Planning Practice
Uri Avin,Robert Goodspeed +1 more
TL;DR: It is observed that to directly inform a plan, regardless of the specific approach taken, exploratory scenarios in urban planning must incorporate stakeholder values and not only rely on expert judgment and analysis.
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User acceptance of location-tracking technologies in health research: Implications for study design and data quality
Jean Hardy,Tiffany C. Veinot,Xiang Yan,Veronica J. Berrocal,Philippa Clarke,Robert Goodspeed,Iris N. Gomez-Lopez,Daniel M. Romero,V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran +8 more
TL;DR: A 28-day field study comparing 21 chronically ill people's acceptance of two leading, consumer-focused location-tracking technologies deployed for research purposes indicates that only smartphone-based tracking is up to the challenge.
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Sketching and learning: A planning support system field study
TL;DR: The results from a field study evaluating the performance of a planning support systems used for sketch planning as part of a land use planning project in metropolitan Austin, Texas, USA show high levels of learning and dialog quality and the performance outcomes are significantly related to participants’ identity as a planner and meeting attendance.
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