TY - GEN
T1 - How do people's concepts of place relate to physical locations?
AU - Zhou, Changqing
AU - Ludford, Pamela
AU - Frankowski, Dan
AU - Terveen, Loren
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Advances in GPS and wireless networking technologies have enabled a new class of location-aware applications, including location tracking [10,2], location-enhanced messaging [3,9], location-based gaming(www.botfighters.com), and navigation aids for the visually impaired [12]. However, these applications typically represent places quite simply, as a geographical point or a point plus radius. We conducted an experiment that showed that this simple representation is not expressive enough to represent the full range of people's everyday places. We also present a set of more complicated physical shapes that our subjects found sufficient to cover their places. These results identify representational requirements for location-aware systems, have implications for systems that aim to acquire place representations, suggest enhanced applications, and open up interesting avenues for future research.
AB - Advances in GPS and wireless networking technologies have enabled a new class of location-aware applications, including location tracking [10,2], location-enhanced messaging [3,9], location-based gaming(www.botfighters.com), and navigation aids for the visually impaired [12]. However, these applications typically represent places quite simply, as a geographical point or a point plus radius. We conducted an experiment that showed that this simple representation is not expressive enough to represent the full range of people's everyday places. We also present a set of more complicated physical shapes that our subjects found sufficient to cover their places. These results identify representational requirements for location-aware systems, have implications for systems that aim to acquire place representations, suggest enhanced applications, and open up interesting avenues for future research.
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U2 - 10.1007/11555261_70
DO - 10.1007/11555261_70
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33645988558
SN - 3540289437
SN - 9783540289432
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 886
EP - 898
BT - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
T2 - 1st International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2005
Y2 - 22 July 2005 through 24 July 2005
ER -