Advances in Extended Reality for Smart Cities—2nd Edition
A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Big Data and Augmented Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 March 2026 | Viewed by 2
Special Issue Editors
Interests: HCI; learning experience design; user experience; AI; IoT; robotics; metaverse; augmented reality; virtual reality; extended reality
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Interests: AI; smart city; AR/VR; immersive and visual analytics; semantic visualizations
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Extended reality (XR) is being sewn increasingly into the everyday fabric of life. Its applications range from entertainment to more advanced fields such as military, healthcare, surgical, educational, and cultural. Despite there being a large amount of literature on this topic, there are areas where XR has not been sufficiently explored or still lacks practical applications, such as smart cities.
Solutions developed for smart cities adopt information and communication technologies to connect people with each other and with a wide variety of city services including healthcare, transportation, and infrastructure. The main goal is to improve the quality of life for citizens, create a common conscience, and promote more sustainable and efficient economic growth.
In this field, XR can play a crucial role by creating ad hoc interfaces to connect citizens with their urban environment and foster civic participation, making it easier to access city services, understand open data, and learn about historical and social contexts, ultimately helping city operators to easily collaborate and plan despite geographical distances.
Contributions to this Special Issue are expected to push the boundaries of extended reality in smart cities, exploring how it can improve citizens’ quality of life, gradually engage them in their surrounding spaces, foster civic participation, and facilitate operations in a smart city.
Areas of interest, include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Urban planning;
- Social interactions;
- Urban experience;
- Urban transportation;
- Technology enhanced learning;
- Smart learning;
- Smart campus;
- Smart building;
- Ambient intelligence;
- IOT and environment interaction;
- Emergency management systems;
- City security management systems;
- Smart farms and industries;
- Healthcare;
- Urban sustainability.
Dr. Marco Romano
Dr. Teresa Onorati
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- augmented reality
- virtual reality
- mixed reality
- augmented virtuality
- extended reality
- smart city
- urban sustainability
- learning experience design
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