Collective spatial awareness

Author

Allen, Stuart M. ; Chorley, M.J. ; Colombo, G.B. ; Jones, C.B. ; Tanasescu, V. ; Whitaker, R.M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Inf., Cardiff Univ., Cardiff, UK

fYear

2013

fDate

9-13 June 2013

Firstpage

209

Lastpage

214

Abstract

Enquiring about and understanding what is going on around ourselves is a fundamental and natural human behaviour. The psychological concept of sense of place considers our individual perceptions of particular locations at particular times. In addition to the immediate properties of our environment, it is also strongly dependent on our individual traits, purpose and relationships as they evolve and adapt over time. In this paper we examine how new approaches to participatory ICT can support heightened levels of sense of place through the development of a parallel concept for collective spatial awareness in ICT systems. We discuss how this could be used as the basis for autonomous processing, acquisition and exchange of spatially relevant information and knowledge.

Keywords

information retrieval; mobile computing; ICT systems; autonomous information acquisition; autonomous information exchange; autonomous information processing; collective spatial awareness; parallel concept; participatory ICT; sense-of-place concept; spatially relevant information; spatially relevant knowledge; Bars; Conferences; Educational institutions; Oceans; Social network services; Tag clouds; Visualization; human mobility; keyword extraction; location-based services; sense of place;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications Workshops (ICC), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCW.2013.6649230

Filename

6649230