Humanizing the Sustainable Smart City
Objective
The research team’s ambition is to develop a new research area in urban development (studies). Well-being in smart cities is the defined research area, focusing on interactions of human-machine-computers or “cyber-physical-human systems” based on human decision-making on an institutional, individual and neurological abstraction level. The smart city of the future is our main application area, as these are complex cyber-physical-human systems. The project will develop a framework for capturing interactions and dynamics in these systems and demonstrate the applications in user case studies.
Background
The health condition of a human being is the basis of individual and social well-being. The driving force for human-social behaviour and many choices individuals make is the desire for well-being, which will manifest in the future of smart cities. Networks, human agents, cyber agents, and physical infrastructure perform feedback and interactions in smart cities. Smart cities can efficiently and sustainably increase human well-being.
Cross-disciplinary collaboration
The research team represents the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS, KTH), the School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM, KTH) and the School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE, KTH).
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Contacts
Hedvig Kjellström
Professor, Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning at KTH, PI of research project Humanizing the Sustainable Smart City (HiSS), Digital Futures Faculty
+46 8 790 69 06hedvig@kth.se
Vladimir Cvetkovic
Professor, Resources, Energy and Infrastructure at KTH, Co-PI of research project Humanizing the Sustainable Smart City (HiSS), Digital Futures Faculty
+46 8 790 62 90vdc@kth.se
Karl H. Johansson
Professor, Division of Decision and Control Systems at KTH, Director of Digital Futures, Member of the Executive Committee, Member of the Strategic Research Committee, Co-PI of research project Humanizing the Sustainable Smart City (HiSS), Digital Futures Faculty
+46 73 404 73 21kallej@kth.se
Pawel Herman
Associate Professor, Computer Science, Division of Computational Science and Technology at KTH EECS, Co-PI: Humanizing the Sustainable Smart City (HiSS), Former Co-supervisor: Intelligence through reasoning, Digital Futures Faculty
+46 8 790 65 13paherman@kth.se
Cecilia Katzeff
Associate Professor, Strategic Sustainability Studies at KTH, Co-PI of research project Humanizing the Sustainable Smart City (HiSS), Working group Trust, Digital Futures Faculty
ckatzeff@kth.se
Marco Molinari
Researcher, Unit of Applied Thermodynamics and Refrigeration at KTH, Co-PI of research project Humanizing the Sustainable Smart City (HiSS), Co-PI: Industry 5.0 research towards a circular economy and community building, Digital Futures Faculty
+46 8 790 74 68marcomo@kth.se
Mikael Skoglund
Professor and Head of Department, Division of Information Science and Engineering at KTH, Member of the Executive Committee, Associate Director Fellows, ICT TNG Director, Working group Cooperate, Co-PI: PERCy, Co-PI: Humanizing the Sustainable Smart City (HiSS), Main supervisor: Fast Distributed Learning based on Adaptive Gradient Coding with Convergence Guarantees, Digital Futures Faculty
+46 8 790 84 30skoglund@kth.se
Angela Fontan
Postdoctoral researcher at the Division of Decision and Control Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Postdoc of research project Humanizing the Sustainable Smart City (HiSS)
angfon@kth.se