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 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 ...