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 ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    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 ...