After successful completion of the course, students are able to:
- Have an overview of the research fields within LBS.
- Describe the basic principles of outdoor and indoor positioning.
- Understand the concepts of context-awareness, user-centered design, usability, and privacy.
- Understand the basic components of mobile navigation systems.
- Understand the basis of GPS tracking.
- Understand the basis of automated driving.
- Have some hands-on experiences on LBS research.
We will cover different aspects of LBS, such as positioning, modelling and communication/presentation. In addition to lectures, students will work in group to design LBS applications or dealing with LBS-related research topics.
- Theoretical lectures
- Discussion of case studies
- Group supervision during the semester
- 2 presentation sessions to allow the students to defend their projects