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Research Publications - GeoUsers

GeoUsers means understanding user needs: Attempts to anticipate users' future requirements for GI and the manner in which the information is presented to the user.

Title/Citation  Type of publication  File size
Davies,C.,Holt,I.,Green,J.,Harding,J.,Diamond,L. (2008). 'User needs and the implications for modelling place'. Paper presented at: International Workshop on Computational Models of Place (PLACE'08), Park City, Utah, USA, 23 September 2008. Paper 194KB
Davies, C. and Pickering, E. (2007). Experiences in the use of eyetracking for investigating geospatial cognition. Unpublished presentation at Tobii User Meeting, Frankfurt, Germany, 18 April 2007 Presentation (abstract) 31KB

Peebles, D., Davies, C. and Mora, R. (2007). Effects of geometry, landmarks and orientation strategies in the 'drop-off' orientation task. In S. Winter, M. Duckham, L. Kulik and B. Kuipers (eds.), Spatial Information Theory (pp. 390-405). LNCS, Vol. 4736. Berlin: Springer.

Peer-reviewed conference paper (full paper) 390KB

Davies, C. and Peebles, D. (2007). Strategies for Orientation: The role of 3D landmark salience and map alignment. In D. S. McNamara and J.G. Trafton (eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society (pp. 923-928). Austin, TX, USA: Cognitive Science Society.

Peer-reviewed conference poster (short paper) 680KB

Davies, C. Mora, R. and Peebles, D. (2006). Isovists for Orientation: can space syntax help us predict directional confusion? In C. Hölscher, R. Conroy Dalton and A. Turner (eds.), Space Syntax and Spatial Cognition (pp. 81-92). SFB/TR8 Monographs Volume 2. Bremen, Germany: Universität Bremen.

Peer-reviewed workshop paper 618kb

Davies, C. (2006). Getting from cognition to collection: data provision for usable models.  Unpublished paper presented at Cognitive Approach to Modelling Environments (CAME) Workshop, GI Science 2006 Conference, Münster, Germany, 20 September 2006.

Peer-reviewed (unpublished) workshop paper 154KB

Lautenschütz, A., Davies, C., Raubal, M., Schwering, A. and Pederson, E. (2007). The influence of scale, context and spatial preposition in linguistic topology. In T. Barkowsky et al. (eds.), Spatial Cognition V: International Conference, Bremen, Germany, September 2006. LNAI, Vol. 4387 (pp. 439-452). Berlin: Springer. Please note: DRAFT (submitted) version of in-press paper.

Peer-reviewed conference paper 163KB

Davies, C., Wood, L., and Fountain, L. (2005) ‘User-centred GI: hearing the voice of the customer’. In AGI ’05, People, Places and Partnerships, Annual Conference of the Association for Geographic Information. November 8-10, 2005, London, UK, AGI: B03.1

Paper 166KB

Harding, J. (2006) ‘Vector Data Quality: a data provider’s perspective’. In Fundamentals of Spatial Data Quality. R. Devillers (ed.) and R. Jeansoulin (ed.) ISTE: Chapter 8

Book chapter 396KB

Davies, C., Tompkinson, W., Donnelly, N., Gordon, L., and Cave, K. (2006) ‘Visual saliency as an aid to updating digital maps’. Computers in Human behavior [online] 22 (2006) 672-684.

Paper 359KB

Davies, C. (2005). Maps beyond diagrams: real-world spatial orientation. In T. Barkowsky, C. Freksa and M. Hegarty (eds.), Reasoning with Mental and External Diagrams: Computational Modeling and Spatial Assistance. Papers from the 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium. American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Technical Report SS-05-06 (pp. 36-40). Menlo Park, CA, USA: AAAI Press.

Peer-reviewed conference poster (short paper) 155KB

Wood, L., Williams, M., Jones, O., and Fleuriot, C. ( ) ‘Contextual geographies and children’s wireless soundscapes’.

Paper 46.1KB

Tompkinson, W., Davies, C. (2004) ‘Harnessing visual attention with machine reasoning to improve the efficiency of production procedures: an account of research in progress’. In: W5: Designing for attention workshop, 18th British HCI Group Annual Conference. September 6-10, 2004, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

Paper 427KB

Wood, L., et al. (2004) ‘Mobile Bristol ‘a new sense of place?’ project’ Mapping News 26, (Summer) 32-33

Magazine article 134KB

Byrom, G. (2003) ‘Data quality and spatial cognition: the perspective of a National Mapping Agency’ ISSDQ International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality 2003, Hong Kong

Paper 66KB

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