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CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Mining tourist information from user-supplied collections
Tourist photographs constitute a large part of the images uploaded to photo sharing platforms. But filtering methods are needed before one can extract useful knowledge from noisy ...
Adrian Popescu, Gregory Grefenstette, Pierre-Alain...
COSIT
2009
Springer
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SeaTouch: A Haptic and Auditory Maritime Environment for Non Visual Cognitive Mapping of Blind Sailors
Abstract. Navigating consists of coordinating egocentric and allocentric spatial frames of reference. Virtual environments have afforded researchers in the spatial community with ...
Mathieu Simonnet, Dan Jacobson, Stephane Vieillede...
COSIT
2009
Springer
133views GIS» more  COSIT 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
A Metric Conceptual Space Algebra
Abstract. The modeling of concepts from a cognitive perspective is important for designing spatial information systems that interoperate with human users. Concept representations t...
Benjamin Adams, Martin Raubal
COSIT
2009
Springer
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Grounding Geographic Categories in the Meaningful Environment
Abstract. Ontologies are a common approach to improve semantic interoperability by explicitly specifying the vocabulary used by a particular information community. Complex expressi...
Simon Scheider, Krzysztof Janowicz, Werner Kuhn
COSIT
2009
Springer
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Evaluating the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Visual Variables for Geographic Information Visualization
We propose an empirical, perception-based evaluation approach for assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of longstanding cartographic design principles applied to 2D map displa...
Simone Garlandini, Sara Irina Fabrikant