Ana Aguiar, IT Senior researcher and Professor at UP, participated as keynote speaker at the 2023 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), April 26-28, 2023, Istanbul, Türkiye, with the lecture “Wireless Systems for Sustainable and Active Mobility”.
The adoption of healthy and environmentally friendly transportation modes is a major contributor to the reduction of urban mobility’s carbon footprint. This talk offered a different perspective and discusses how wireless systems can support the use of healthier and more environmentally friendly transportation modes: buses, bikes and walking. WiFi deployments on public buses make travelers’ trips more amenable, but usability can use be improved by smarter mechanisms. Bicycles are increasingly used for commuting. Connecting bicycles to one another and other vehicles enable services from safety to infotainment that improve the attractiveness of cycling as a commuting mode. Finally, the talk discusses the exploratory design of a human-machine interface for warning pedestrians on a smartphone.
This research was carried out within the scope of projects Generation Mobi, S2MovingCity, MobiWise, and FLOYD.
Bio:
Ana Aguiar is Assistant Professor with Habilitation at the University of Porto (UP), senior researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT), and leader of IT Porto. Her research focuses on wireless and mobile systems for sustainable mobility, including connected assisted driving and, IoT systems and performance evaluation, and data mining spatial-temporal data. She is adjunct coordinator of the Center of Competences for Future Cities at UP. She led the VOCE project on voice stress detection and participated in over 20 R&D projects, working with academic and industry partners. She published more than 80 journal and conference articles, is a reviewer for reputed conferences and journals, and area editor for Elsevier Computer Communications and Pervasive and Mobile Computing. She is an expert with the EC and was the CTO of CooDriver GmbH between 2016 and 2018.