WebAndTheCity'23: 9th International Workshop on The Web and Smart Cities

This is the 9th edition of the workshop series labeled "AW4City - Web Applications and Smart Cities", which started back in Florence in 2015 and kept on taking place every year in conjunction with the WWW conference series. Last year the workshop was held virtually in Lyon, France. The workshop series aims to investigate the Web and Web...

Developing a Service Platform for Health and Wellbeing in a Living Lab Setting: An Action Design Research Approach

Smartphone controlled home environments

This master thesis “Smartphone controlled home environments” aimed the integration of gesture control in the context of Smart living. Gesture control as one of the Natural User Interface, shows a limited usage, by mainly being used in the entertainment industry. The property of gesture control was seen to be potential to contribute to smart...

A start-up process for the design of a multi-sided digital platform for social innovation

A social innovation is a novel solution to a social problem that is more effective, efficient, sustainable for which the value created accrues primarily to society as a whole rather than private individuals. Social innovations come in various forms such as (1) doing something good in/for society; (2) changing social practices and/or structure, ...

Developing a Health and Wellbeing Platform in a Living Lab Setting: An Action Design Research Study

The world’s population is rapidly aging, which affects healthcare budgets, resources, pensions and social security systems. Although most older adults prefer to live independently in their own home as long as possible, smart living solutions to support elderly people at home did not reach mass adoption, yet. To support people age-in-place a...

Main requirements of a health and wellbeing platform: Findings from four focus group discussions

Supporting the ageing population is a worldwide challenge as it causes a huge tension on societies, regarding to healthcare budgets, resources, pensions and social security systems. To support people ‘age in place’ we propose a digital matchmaking platform for health and wellbeing. Nevertheless, what should be the main purpose of such a platform...

Using Smart Controlled AC and Ceiling Fan to Save Energy

This research aimed to explore the energy savings through the use of smart control as well as ceiling fan in intelligent building. As the energy consumption of air-conditioning (AC) accounts for about 40% of total residential energy, therefore, applying smart control system to the use of AC to achieve the effects of comfy and energy savings...

Governance of smart living service platforms: State-ofthe-art and the need for collective action

Today’s smart home concepts are no longer limited to home automation, but increasingly involve smart health, energy, security and entertainment services. Such smart living services are typically offered through sector-specific service platforms that are rarely interoperable and not fully standardized. As a result, an overwhelming variety of...

Telecom and Energy, vital sectors enabling Smart Living

This thesis investigates the past, present and future of energy, telecom and household related developments aiming to pinpoint synergetic innovation possibilities. Providing overview and insights at the aggregation level above, being the sector network, is the first necessary step to reach this goal. The academic part of this thesis focuses on...