Publications

At Human Centered Cities Lab, we publish our work through various ways including peer-reviewed academic journals and conferences, blog posts, and press-related articles.  

  • [Journal – Under review] Y. Hakiminejad, E., Pantesco, and A. Tavakoli, “Public Transit of the Future: Enhancing Well-being through Designing Public Transportation Spaces”, Under Review, Read Preprint Here, 2024
  • [Journal] A. Tavakoli, I.P. Douglas, H. Y. Noh, J. Hwang, S.L. Billington, “Psycho-behavioral Responses to Urban Scenes: An Exploration through Eye-tracking”, Cities, 156, 105568, 2024
  • [Journal] A. Tavakoli, X. Guo, T. D. Chen, and A. Heydarian, “Unveiling the Impact of Cognitive Distraction on Cyclists’ Psycho-Behavioral Responses in an Immersive Virtual Environment,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2024.

  • [Conference] S. Sabeti, A. Tavakoli, A. Heydarian, and O. Shoghli, “MAD-IVE: Multi-Agent Distributed Immersive Virtual Environments for Vulnerable Road User Research—Potential, Challenges, and Requirements,” in Computing in Civil Engineering 2023, 2024, pp. 1113–1120.

  • [Conference] B. Altaf, A. Tavakoli, E. Bianchi, J. Landay, and S. L. Billington, “Leveraging Immersive Virtual Environments for Occupant Well-Being Analysis,” in Computing in Civil Engineering 2023, 2024, pp. 85–92.

  • [Conference] E. Bianchi, A. Tavakoli, and S. L. Billington, “Using Computer Vision and Parametric Design Software to Quantify Nature Dose in Indoor Built Environments,” in Computing in Civil Engineering 2023, 2024, pp. 93–101.

  • [Journal] A. Tavakoli, N. Lai, V. Balali, and A. Heydarian, “How are drivers’ stress levels and emotions associated with the driving context? A naturalistic study,” Journal of Transport & Health, vol. 31, pp. 101649, 2023.

  • [Journal] B. Li, A. Tavakoli, and A. Heydarian, “Occupant privacy perception, awareness, and preferences in smart office environments,” Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 4073, 2023.

  • [Journal] X. Guo, A. Tavakoli, A. Angulo, E. Robartes, T. D. Chen, and A. Heydarian, “Psycho-physiological measures on a bicycle simulator in immersive virtual environments: how protected/curbside bike lanes may improve perceived safety,” Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, vol. 92, pp. 317–336, 2023.

  • [Conference] B. Li, A. Tavakoli, A. Wang, N. Kaur, L. Barnes, A. Doryab, and A. Heydarian, “Measuring Success, One Sensor at a Time: A Sensing Infrastructure for Longitudinal Workspace Behavior Monitoring,” in Proc. 10th ACM Int. Conf. on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, 2023, pp. 413–420.

  • [Conference] A. Tavakoli and A. Heydarian, “The impact of surrounding road objects and conditions on drivers’ abrupt heart rate changes,” in Proc. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, vol. 66, no. 1, 2022, pp. 1345–1349.

  • [Journal] A. Tavakoli and A. Heydarian, “Multimodal driver state modeling through unsupervised learning,” Accident Analysis & Prevention, vol. 170, pp. 106640, 2022.

  • [Journal] A. Tavakoli, S. Kumar, X. Guo, V. Balali, M. Boukhechba, and A. Heydarian, “Harmony: A human-centered multimodal driving study in the wild,” IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 23956–23978, 2021.

  • [Conference] A. Tavakoli, S. Kumar, M. Boukhechba, and A. Heydarian, “Driver state and behavior detection through smart wearables,” in 2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2021, pp. 559–565.

  • [Conference] A. Tavakoli, M. Boukhechba, and A. Heydarian, “Leveraging ubiquitous computing for empathetic routing: A naturalistic data-driven approach,” in Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021, pp. 1–6.

  • [Journal] A. Tavakoli, V. Balali, and A. Heydarian, “How do Environmental Factors Affect Drivers’ Gaze and Head Movements?” 2021.

  • [Journal] B. D. Bowes, A. Tavakoli, C. Wang, A. Heydarian, M. Behl, P. A. Beling, and J. L. Goodall, “Flood mitigation in coastal urban catchments using real-time stormwater infrastructure control and reinforcement learning,” Journal of Hydroinformatics, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 529–547, 2021.

  • [Conference] C. Wang, B. Bowes, A. Tavakoli, S. Adams, J. Goodall, and P. Beling, “Smart Stormwater Control Systems: A Reinforcement Learning Approach,” in ISCRAM 2020 Conf. Proc.-17th Int. Conf. on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 2020, pp. 2–13.

  • [Conference] A. Tavakoli, M. Boukhechba, and A. Heydarian, “Personalized driver state profiles: A naturalistic data-driven study,” in Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation: Proc. AHFE 2020 Virtual Conf. on Human Aspects of Transportation, July 16-20, 2020, USA, 2020, pp. 32–39.

  • [Conference] A. Tavakoli, A. Ashrafi, A. Heydarian, and M. Behl, “The internet of wasted things (iowt),” in Proc. 8th Int. Conf. on the Internet of Things, 2018, pp. 1–3.

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