In collaboration with Maider Llaguno-Munitxa (PostDoc. Princeton University), Prof. Doc. Elie Bou-Zeid (Princeton University Civil and Environmental Engineering), and Arman Atoyan (Arloopa). More information: must.princeton.edu

Virtual Urban Environments (VUE) is a marker based augmented reality mobile app that aims to compliment the currently available city scale environmental data. The VUE app enables a spatiotemporal visualization of all Seoul districts’ air quality data in order to make the citizens aware of their immediate microclimate while highlighting the interaction between environmental and urban parameters. The VUE app can be displayed in any space where the designated Seoul markers are visible. The markers are composed of various GIS and Remote Sensing layers of Seoul. Historical air quality data from 1986 to 2016 can be viewed through interacting with a slider and dropdown menu. Data for PM10, PM2.5, O3, S02, N02, and CO is made available. Furthermore, the app enables real time data to be visualized over the city map. The setup aims to encourage the viewer to make correlation between the historical and real-time air quality data, while viewing the complexity of urban and geographic layers.