Smart City and Immersive Art Projects: A Bibliometric Analysis

This research aims to identify publications that form knowledge about modern ICT for creating immersive art projects. The analysis shows that immersive technologies change the urban experience due to interactive public art installations. Immersive art projects become iconic and symbolic elements of the smart city ecosystems. A bibliometric analysis of publications available in Scopus on immersive art projects for smart cities was carried out. As a result of the screening, 217 documents were selected for subsequent bibliometric analysis. It was found that the chosen documents belong to 20 areas of knowledge, which are grouped into technical, social, natural, formal, humanities, medicine and health care, and multidisciplinary. The content analysis of publications made it possible to identify documents related to immersive art projects in each branch of knowledge. It was found that documents already exist that present the results of immersive art projects implemented in cities such as Athens, Cardiff, Tokyo, Rome, Seoul, Qingdao, Bagerhat, and others. The selected documents are structured by type, research geography, and authors' affiliation. A “cloud” (using WordItOut) and a “diagram” (using MS Excel) were generated to visualize the frequency of keyword usage. It allowed us to establish the underrepresentation of “Immersive/Immersion, Immers Technology/Immersive Technologies, Immersive Virtual Reality, Immersive Experience” in scientific research on the smart city environment. Keywords of publications on “Smart City. Immersive” were structured by clusters, and bibliometric maps were developed using VOSviewer software. Five items described are: 1 – Immersive technologies for smart urban growth; 2 – Smart city development based on extended reality; 3 – Extended reality for sustainable smart cities; 4 – Intelligent digital ecosystems; and 5 – Urban development and growth. The findings may be the basis for further research to analyze the impact of immersive art projects on the sustainable development of smart cities.