Urbai 2013

1st Workshop on Urban Applications and Infrastructures

Aim

The leverage of digital networks and mobile technology with sensing capabilities is making possible to develop technology that enables cities to provide better urban services. For instance, to empower citizens to participate in public-life and decision-making, and to enable to trace human behavior and mobility patterns to inform the urban design process. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum to gather technology experts and practitioners contributing towards the assessment, development, and deployment of Ubiquitous and Ambient Intelligence (AmI) on the urban domain. The workshop will act as a forum to present and discuss recent results and on-going research. The expected results are twofold: to find out how the emergence of the Ubiquitous and AmI paradigms influence the future of urban smart environments and to promote interdisciplinary collaboration on the subject.

Topics

We encourage researchers to submit their work emphasizing applications, experience reports, methodologies and architectures aiming to address some of the following topics (but not limited to):
- Urban Analytics and Modeling
- Urban Interactive Visualizations
- Urban Planning
- Urban Transport Planning and Enhancement
- Citizen Mobility
- Urban Crowd-sensing
- Citizen Data Collection Accuracy and Trust
- Civic and Urban Engagement of Citizens
- Urban Lifestyles: mHealth, public healthcare, retail & commerce, transportation, public safety, crowd management, etc.
- Social Networking in Urban Settings
- Disaster Recovery
- Human Factors in the Design or Evaluation of Applications

Program (Brasilito I y II, Riu Guanacaste)

15:00-15:20 Welcome - URBAI Chairs
  Infrastructures
15:20-15:40 "Enabling Citizen-empowered Apps over Linked Data" Diego López-De-Ipiña, Sacha Vanhecke, and Oscar Peña
15:40-16:00 "An Ontology-Driven Framework for Resource-Efficient Collaborative Sensing" Brayan Luna-Nuñez, Rolando Menchaca-Mendez ,and Jesus Favela
  Mobility patterns
16:00-16:20 "The Citizen Road Watcher – Identifying Roadway Surface Disruptions Based on Accelerometer Patterns" Fernando Martinez, Manuel Ricardo Carlos-Loya, and Luis Carlos Gonzalez-Gurrola
16:20-16:40 "Risky Driving Detection through Urban Mobility Traces: A Preliminary Approach" Luis Carlos Cruz, Manuel Domitsu, Adrian Macias, Luis-Felipe Rodríguez, and Luis A. Castro
16:40-17:00 Coffee Break
  Behavior change
17:00-17:20 "Participatory Sensing for Improving Urban Mobility" Miguel Angel Ylizaliturri-Salcedo, Saul Delgadillo-Rodriguez, J. Antonio Garcia-Macias and Monica Tentori
17:20-17:40 "Ambient Urban Games for Reducing the Stress of Commuters Crossing the Mexico-US Border" Marcela Rodriguez, and Cecilia Curlango-Rosas
  Big Data
17:40-18:00 "Sentiment characterization of an urban environment via Twitter" Victor Martinez and Victor Gonzalez
18:00-18:20 "User Statistics and Traffic Analysis of Public Internet Access in Buses" César Cárdenas, and Fernando Camacho
  Closing Plenary
18:20-19:00 Raúl Cárdenas Osuna (keynote Speaker),ToroLab, Tijuana Mexico

Program committee

  • Antonio García Macías, CICESE, Mexico
  • Antonio Gomez-Skarmeta, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
  • Diego de Ipiña, University of Deusto, Spain
  • Maria Victoria moreno, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
  • Ramón Brena, ITESM, Mexico
  • Rolando Menchaca, IPN, Mexico
  • Victor González, ITAM, Mexico

Questions?

Should you have any question, please feel free to drop us a line or two at luis.caztro@itson.edu.mx and marcerod@uabc.edu.mx.