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Thursday, September 18, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
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Rethinking Indoor Localization and Tracking: A Conversational Approach to Positioning
People spend much of their time in large indoor environments such as work and school campuses, shopping malls and commercial complexes, transit hubs such airports and train stations, and cultural spaces like museums and art galleries, where the ability to localize and track user movement is critical for navigation and context-aware services. While GPS supports positioning outdoors, it cannot be used indoors, and existing alternatives either require costly infrastructure or suffer from issues such as drift and scalability. This proposal investigates a different perspective: treating the user as a sensor. Instead of relying solely on devices, the work shows how people’s natural descriptions of their surroundings can serve as lightweight, conversational inputs to achieve indoor positioning. Three strands of research form the basis of this proposal: (1) Conversational Localization, which studies whether user-provided descriptions can support one-shot indoor positioning; (2) Conversational Tracking, which integrat…
Subtitle: PhD Dissertation Proposal by Smitha SHESHADRI. Contact: scisseminars@smu.edu.sg. Speaker Details:
Smitha SHESHADRI
PhD Candidate
School of Computing and Information Systems
Singapore Management University, Smitha SHESHADRI is a PhD candidate in Computer Science. Her research focuses on Human–Computer Interaction and Indoor Spatial Intelligence, with an emphasis on conversational, user-as-sensor approaches to localization and tracking. RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=ynmKyZpakUeiQ_Bq_WdGTejbEKPlArBJhZomj91naG9UOUYwRDdaUTlEV0M3QkJGRlkwMjlVT1U5OS4u. Type: Seminars & Workshops. Subject: Information Technology & Systems. Audience: Public. Current Student. Academic Community.
Friday, September 19, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Meeting room 5.1, Level 5. SMU SCIS 1, Singapore 178902.
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MITB Virtual Information Session (Singapore)
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Saturday, September 20, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
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