Geographies of Empathy: Affective reconfigurations of Cities, Objects & Places 

    Portela, Manuel (Date of defense: 2018-11-21)

    This work addresses the development of digital technologies from the perspective of corporeal and embodied encounters. It offers a critical view of the openness and smartness of cities, at the same time that propose a novel ...

    Location data privacy : principles to practice 

    Ataei, Mehrnaz (Date of defense: 2018-11-15)

    This thesis develops and evaluates approaches to facilitate the design and development of privacy-aware LBS. This work has explicitly focused on three areas: location data management in LBS, the design of UI for LBS, and ...

    Mobile Services for Green Living 

    Pajarito Grajales, Diego Fabián (Date of defense: 2018-11-23)

    Although many cities are promoting urban cycling, they do not analyse behavioural patterns or barriers faced during cycling with geospatial technologies. This thesis, placed within the fields of geoinformatics and serious ...

    Participation & (Re)settlement : envisioning mobile services with young forced migrants 

    Bustamante Duarte, Ana María (Date of defense: 2018-11-15)

    This thesis focuses on the role and adaptation of participatory design (PD) approaches to create “safe spaces” where young forced migrants can be co-researchers on and co-designers of mobile (geospatial) services to support ...

    Place and City: merging our affective and social spatial dimension in the (smart) platial city 

    Acedo Sánchez, Albert (Date of defense: 2018-11-28)

    In this research, we highlight the need to understand and operationalize social concepts spatial dimension for a better understanding of a smart citizen-centric approach which is mainly dependent on our capability to ...

    Smart Sustainable Cities Assessment 

    Akande, Adeoluwa Stephen (Date of defense: 2020-03-13)

    There has been an exponential growth of cities in the last decade. Rural to urban migration are occurring at an unprecedented level. This is partly because cities serve as hubs of innovation offering numerous economic ...

    Spatial and spatio-temporal point patterns on linear networks 

    Moradi, Mohammad Mehdi (Date of defense: 2018-11-21)

    The last decade witnessed an extraordinary increase in interest in the analysis of network related data and trajectories. In the spatial statistics field, there are numerous real examples such as the locations of traffic ...

    Spatial modelling of air pollution for open smart cities 

    Gupta, Shivam (Date of defense: 2018-11-15)

    The thesis presents five contributions which address the issues mentioned above. The first contribution is the choice of a statistical method which can help in utilising existing open data and overcoming challenges imposed ...

    Studying user behavior through a participatory sensing framework in an urban context 

    Ngo, Manh Khoi (Date of defense: 2018-11-22)

    The thesis details the design and implementation of a multi-purpose participatory sensing framework (Citizense) based on a list of requirements extracted from the literature. This framework enables ordinary users to ...

    Supporting Public Participation through Interactive Immersive Public Displays 

    Du, Guiying (Date of defense: 2018-11-15)

    The main contributions of this thesis can be summarized as: (1) the identification of key challenges and opportunities for future research in using public displays for public participation in urban contexts; (2) two sets ...