Synopsis

The abundance of data has promoted a technology-centric view of a Smart City. Human Smart Cities emphasise the role of citizens, their needs and a bottom-up approach to urban development and improving the quality of lives of citizens. In this talk, examples of how digital technologies have been used to visualise data to enhance knowledge and raise awareness among citizens to engage them in their communities and neighbourhoods will be presented. In addition, experiences from an European project on Human Smart Cities, MyNeighbourhood, will be shared.

Speaker

Dr. Sobah Abbas Petersen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and a Senior Research Scientist at SINTEF Digital. Her current research focus includes urban ecosystems, interaction technologies for citizen engagement, data management and visualisation in smart and sustainable cities. She has experience in co-design processes, gamification and working with NGOs, public authorities, industry and a variety of user groups. She also has experience in applying the Living Lab approach for sustainable transformations at the neighbourhood scale.

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