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Digital Health and Indoor Air Quality: An IoT- Driven Human-Centred Visualisation Platform for Behavioural Change and Technology Acceptance (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kureshi, R. R., Mazumdar, S., Mishra, B. K., Li, X., & Thakker, D. (2023, December). Digital Health and Indoor Air Quality: An IoT- Driven Human-Centred Visualisation Platform for Behavioural Change and Technology Acceptance. Presented at 4th International Conference on Distributed Sensing and Intelligent Systems (ICDSIS 2023), Dubai, UAE

The detrimental effects of air pollutants on human health have prompted increasing concerns regarding indoor air quality (IAQ). The emergence of digital health interventions and citizen science initiatives has provided new avenues for raising awarene... Read More about Digital Health and Indoor Air Quality: An IoT- Driven Human-Centred Visualisation Platform for Behavioural Change and Technology Acceptance.

Integrating Virtual Walkthroughs for Subjective Urban Evaluations: A Case Study of Neighbourhoods in Sheffield, England (2024)
Journal Article
Roychowdhury, S., Mazumdar, S., Thakker, D., Checco, A., Lanfranchi, V., & Goodchild, B. (2024). Integrating Virtual Walkthroughs for Subjective Urban Evaluations: A Case Study of Neighbourhoods in Sheffield, England. Land, 13(6), Article 831. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13060831

This study explores the correlation between residents’ subjective assessments of urban neighbourhoods, obtained through virtual walkthroughs, and objective measures of deprivation. Our study was set within a specific city in the United Kingdom, with... Read More about Integrating Virtual Walkthroughs for Subjective Urban Evaluations: A Case Study of Neighbourhoods in Sheffield, England.

Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning (2023)
Journal Article
Mazumdar, S., Thakker, D., Hayes, J., Matos, N., & Bate, P. (2023). Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning. Futures: for the interdisciplinary study of futures, visioning, anticipation and foresight, 152, Article 103197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103197

In light of severe risks of extreme conditions arising out of global warming, the push towards sustainable development and management of our resources has been a topic of immense interest globally. The UK's recent promise of reducing all greenhouse g... Read More about Towards achieving net zero by 2050 in the UK – Stakeholder perspectives in integrated urban planning.

Understanding Urban Planning Outcomes in the UK: Practitioner Perspectives in Outcome Assessment (2023)
Journal Article
Mazumdar, S., Qi, J., Thakker, D., & Goodchild, B. (2023). Understanding Urban Planning Outcomes in the UK: Practitioner Perspectives in Outcome Assessment. International Journal of E-Planning Research, 12(1), 1-40. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJEPR.326126

The planning process in the UK is a highly complex system, developed over many decades, and is in the process of rapid transitions into digital planning. Among these transformations is a desire to move from an outputs-based assessment to an outcomes-... Read More about Understanding Urban Planning Outcomes in the UK: Practitioner Perspectives in Outcome Assessment.

Using Citizen Science to Complement IoT Data Collection: A Survey of Motivational and Engagement Factors in Technology-Centric Citizen Science Projects (2021)
Journal Article
Ali, M. U., Mishra, B. K., Thakker, D., Mazumdar, S., & Simpson, S. (2021). Using Citizen Science to Complement IoT Data Collection: A Survey of Motivational and Engagement Factors in Technology-Centric Citizen Science Projects. IoT, 2(2), 275-309. https://doi.org/10.3390/iot2020015

A key aspect of the development of Smart Cities involves the efficient and effective management of resources to improve liveability. Achieving this requires large volumes of sensors strategically deployed across urban areas. In many cases, however, i... Read More about Using Citizen Science to Complement IoT Data Collection: A Survey of Motivational and Engagement Factors in Technology-Centric Citizen Science Projects.

Explainable artificial intelligence for developing smart cities solutions (2020)
Journal Article
Thakker, D., Mishra, B. K., Abdullatif, A., Mazumdar, S., & Simpson, S. (2020). Explainable artificial intelligence for developing smart cities solutions. Smart Cities, 3(4), 1353-1382. https://doi.org/10.3390/smartcities3040065

Traditional Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies used in developing smart cities solutions, Machine Learning (ML) and recently Deep Learning (DL), rely more on utilising best representative training datasets and features engineering and less on... Read More about Explainable artificial intelligence for developing smart cities solutions.

A novel application of deep learning with image cropping: a smart city use case for flood monitoring (2020)
Journal Article
Mishra, B. K., Thakker, D., Mazumdar, S., Neagu, D., Gheorghe, M., & Simpson, S. (2020). A novel application of deep learning with image cropping: a smart city use case for flood monitoring. Journal of Reliable Intelligent Environments, 6(1), 51-61. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40860-020-00099-x

Event monitoring is an essential application of Smart City platforms. Real-time monitoring of gully and drainage blockage is an important part of flood monitoring applications. Building viable IoT sensors for detecting blockage is a complex task due... Read More about A novel application of deep learning with image cropping: a smart city use case for flood monitoring.