Time geography inverted: recognizing intentions in space and time

  • Authors:
  • Peter Kiefer;Martin Raubal;Christoph Schlieder

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany;University of California, Santa Barbara, CA;University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 18th SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Mobile intention recognition is the problem of inferring a mobile user's intentions from her behavior in geographic space. Such behavior is constrained in space and time. Current approaches, however, have difficulties to handle temporal constraints. We therefore propose using the framework of time geography to formalize and visualize both spatial and temporal constraints for the mobile intention recognition problem. A new rule language is introduced which allows for modeling intentions with spatial and temporal constraints. A location-based game application demonstrates that interpreting a user's spatio-temporal behavior sequence in terms of intentions reduces ambiguity compared to mobile intention recognition without temporal constraints.