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Santa Guzmán, Luis Fernando (Date of defense: 2018-11-30)
This doctoral dissertation proposed several statistical approaches to analyse urban dynamics with aiming to provide tools for decision making processes and urban studies. It assumed that human activity and human mobility ...
Benítez Páez, Manuel Fernando (Date of defense: 2018-11-22)
This book presents a user-centric framework that local open data authorities can use it to improve the ongoing initiatives towards a bottom-up approach. In an open data atmosphere where the accessibility of data portals ...
Trilles Oliver, Sergio (Date of defense: 2015-07-14)
En esta tesis se utiliza como hilo conductor el ciclo de vida de cualquier contenido geoespacial, que coincide con el ciclo de los datos proporcionados por sensores. Para ello, se presentan cuatro etapas que son: adquisición, ...
Smid, Marek (Date of defense: 2018-11-29)
Urban systems are not only major drivers of climate change, but also impact hotspots. The processes of global warming and urban population growth make our urban agglomerations vulnerable to chain reactions triggered by ...
Beltrán Fonollosa, Arturo (Date of defense: 2013-07-23)
El interés de los usuarios en la información con contexto geográfico hace que esta juegue un papel fundamental en la sociedad haciendo que la cantidad y variedad de recursos georreferenciados disponibles en la web aumente ...
Naranjo Zolotov, Mijail (Date of defense: 2018-11-29)
This thesis contributes to a better understanding of the determinants of e-participation adoption in the urban contexts at individual level. The dissertation first carries out a review of the existing literature following ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...