Re-place-ing space: the roles of place and space in collaborative systems
CSCW '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
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COSIT '99 Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science
The Nature of Landmarks for Real and Electronic Spaces
COSIT '99 Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science
Measuring presence in virtual environments
CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Role of Global and Local Landmarks in Virtual Environment Navigation
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Human-Computer Interaction
HINTeractions: facilitating informal knowledge exchange in physical and social space
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Semantic categories underlying the meaning of 'place'
COSIT'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Spatial information theory
Space and places: when interacting with and in physical space becomes a meaningful experience
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
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Meanings of geographic concepts have to be grounded in real world and in human commonsense to formulate semantically-enriched geographic ontologies. Cognitive concepts, such as the notion of geographic place, have been shown to be inherently vague. This vagueness results primarily due to a lack of understanding of the modifiers linking the cognitive semantics with the real world, and because of the ambiguous ontological and semantic distinctions with similar spatial concepts. In this paper, an experimental framework is developed to demonstrate that the notion of ‘sense of place' can be operationalised as a cognitive operator to ground the meanings of place in the real world as well as in human behaviour, and for defining the ontological distinctions with other spatial and location identifiers, such as neighbourhood. The results from human subject experiments are used as a basis for extracting the key parameters associated with ‘sense of place'.