Future Cities: people

Dr Konstantinos Ampountolas 

  • Traffic flow modelling and simulation
  • Network management and control
  • Traffic signal control in large-scale urban road networks
  • Pervasive sensing and monitoring of traffic congestion and gridlock
  • Intelligent transportation systems
  • Optimal control systems

Konstantinos.Ampountolas@glasgow.ac.uk

Professor Stephen Brewster

  • Interaction design for older users and users with visual disabilities, homecare systems
  • Multimodal human-computer interaction (HCI)
  • Novel multimodal interfaces for mobile devices
  • Sounds: 3D sound, Musicons and Earcons in human-computer interfaces
  • Sonification/Perceptualisation of data
  • Gestural interaction
  • Haptics: The use of force-feedback devices, tactile displays, thermal feedback and pressure input for interaction
  • User interfaces to digital cameras and 3D TVs

Stephen.Brewster@glasgow.ac.uk

Research feature:

Dr Matthew Chalmers

Dr Chalmers research examines ways in which mobile and ubiquitous computing can improve the health of a community by encouraging long-term behavioural change via games and apps. He also works with tourism bodies in Scotland to explore the ways in which mobile applications can improve the experience of their events. 

  • Human-computer interaction
  • Mobile computing
  • Ubiquitous computing
  • Computer-supported collaborative work
  • Interactive systems design theory

Matthew.Chalmers@glasgow.ac.uk

Research feature:

Professor Iain Docherty

  • Reduced carbon intensity in transport systems
  • Transport planning and investment  

Iain.Docherty@glasgow.ac.uk

Professor Ken Gibb

  • Housing markets and economics
  • Urban housing systems and economies
  • Social housing and housing policy

Ken.Gibb@glasgow.ac.uk

Dr Catherine Happer

  • The role of social media in decision-making about energy efficiency behaviours

Catherine.Happer@glasgow.ac.uk

Professor Rod Murray-Smith

  • Research into using mobile phone applications to explore new ways of navigating around the city (pedestrian and or public transport), and in ways of letting groups of people meet up
  • Mobile Human Computer Interaction
  • Machine Learning
  • Brain Computer Interaction
  • Dynamic Systems

Roderick.Murray-Smith@glasgow.ac.uk

Professor Mike Osbourne

  • The role of Big Data in education
  • Widening participation to higher education
  • Teaching and learning in higher education
  • The development of learning cities and regions

Michael.Osborne@glasgow.ac.uk

Dr Iadh Ounis

Dr Ounis has been working on the SMART project. SMART supports the development of information services for 'smart cities' by enabling the collection and combination of large social and sensor streams and making them searchable in real-time. 

  • Web and enterprise search engines
  • Large-scale information retrieval systems
  • Opinion finding and results diversification
  • Searching and mining within electronic health records
  • Social media retrieval (blog, twitter, news, etc)

Iadh.Ounis@glasgow.ac.uk

Research feature:

Prof Marian Scott

  • Developing statistical methods and models for massive datasets; including those generated in cities by a large network of sensors
  • Model uncertainty and sensitivity analysis
  • Modelling the dispersal of pollutants in the environment

Marian.Scott@glasgow.ac.uk 

Professor Vonu Thakuriah

Professor Thakuriah has a research interest in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). This involves building safe and sustainable transportation services that are reliable and cost-effective, and which address the needs of diverse populations in terms of seamless access to jobs, healthcare, social opportunities and so on.  

  • Modelling social, behavioural and economic aspects of transport
  • Big Data, Urban Informatics, Intelligent Transportation Systems and Computational Transportation Science
  • Social justice and equity in mobility
  • Innovative transport solutions (social, shared, public, intermodal, volunteered, community and active transport)
  • Developing mega-city transport issues
  • Transport planning, policy and operations

Piyushimita.Thakuriah@glasgow.ac.uk

Research feature:

Prof Triantafillou focuses on the management of big data and finding new ways to help people access information and draw useful intelligence from it.

  • Big Data Management Systems: NoSQL systems, index-based and Hadoop-style massively parallel data access, statistical structures and query processing and optimization
  • Cloud Infrastructures: Internet-wide, inter-Data Centre infrastructures, high availability and reliable storage systems
  • Crowdsourcing as a means to improve Data System Internals and Information/Knowledge Acquisition
  • Large-scale, Event-based, Publish/Subscribe Systems and Continuous Queries

Peter.Triantafillou@glasgow.ac.uk

Research feature:

 Professor Sally Wyke

  • Development and evaluation of interventions and programmes to help improve health and wellbeing
  • Interdisciplinary social science
  • Community- and primary care- based health research

Sally.Wyke@glasgow.ac.uk