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GIR
2007
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Geo-tagging for imprecise regions of different sizes
Extracting geographical information from various web sources is likely to be important for a variety of applications. One such use for this information is to enable the study of v...
Robert Pasley, Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
What is a place?: allowing users to name and define places
From working with location-based information systems we know that positioning is problematic. A different approach was tested, where users themselves were allowed to name and defi...
Petra Fagerberg, Fredrik Espinoza, Per Persson
FOMI
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Roles: A Four-Dimensional Analysis
In ontology the underlying nature of things is sought. Thus it is that the roles things play can sometimes be neglected. Some different sorts of things that get called roles: place...
Matthew West
MANSCI
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Valuing Money and Things: Why a $20 Item Can Be Worth More and Less Than $20
The study of risky decision-making has long used monetary gambles to study choice, but many everyday decisions do not involve the prospect of winning or losing money. Monetary gam...
A. Peter McGraw, Eldar Shafir, Alexander Todorov
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Finding Things In Fisheyes: Memorability in Distorted Spaces
Interactive fisheye views use distortion to show both local detail and global context in the same display space. Although fisheyes allow the presentation and inspection of large d...
Amy Skopik, Carl Gutwin