Project Tags: Digital Society and Smart Cities

Morshed: A personalized and multimodal ubiquitous indoor navigation system

Reliable indoor navigation remains an unsolved problem. Despite extensive academic research and rapid advances in sensing and artificial intelligence, there is still no practical indoor navigation solution that matches the…

Desert futures design studio – Reimagining the countryside

The Desert Futures Design Studio is an interdisciplinary, non-credit pilot that brings together students and faculty from across Education City to reimagine Qatar’s desert and rural landscapes as thriving, livable…

Adaptive multimodal sensing for context-aware intelligent monitoring

Smart environments equipped with heterogeneous sensors—wearables, cameras, microphones, and ambient devices—generate continuous streams of multimodal data that can enable intelligent monitoring of human health, behavior, and well-being. However, current multimodal…

Revolutionizing vertical greenwalls: Utilizing agricultural waste hydrogel and symbiotic soil pellets for water efficiency and nutrient management with greywater irrigation

This project presents an innovative solution to tackle the urgent issues of climate change and urbanization through the implementation of “enhanced vertical greenwalls.” The objective is to enhance water conservation,…

Semi-decentralized platform governance: A qualitative study

Over the last decade, firms that own digital platforms (e.g., Meta, Amazon, Alphabet) have dominated the list of most valuable global firms. Driven by the proliferation of their platforms that…

Smartedge: Towards deployable edge-based indoor context aware systems

We propose SmartEdge, an integrated architecture and system that leverages IoT devices, beyond the edge, to enable next generation deployable, compute intensive, and privacy preserving contextaware applications. SmartEdge will enable…

Unleashing the power of social commerce in the C2C platforms: A cross cultural analysis

Social media are widely acknowledged as having enabled many recent social, economic, and political transformations. These media, which include Facebook, Instragram, YouTube, Second Life, and Twitter, have become established as…

Centrality measures on graphs

In studying networks (be they social networks, road networks, communication networks, etc.) one is often interested in measuring the relative importance of various nodes and arcs and identifying the most…

Green information systems for smarter cities: Opportunities and challenges for sustainable development

The rapid increase in global population have contributed to a massive strain on urban areas. While the antecedents of such strain could be attributed to economic necessity, many social and…

Large-scale, personal and mobile sensor networks and their applications in Qatar

Different science and engineering communities are currently planning, developing, and deploying the next generation of large-scale sensor-based observing systems. These systems enable us to understand at local, regional, and global…