The concept of relevance in mobile maps

Reichenbacher, Tumasch

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-36728-4_18

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“…These criteria can be identified as part of the 'horizon' involved in the 'interpretational relevance' as defined by Saracevic (1996). The same criteria have later been encoded in the concept of 'physical relevance' by Reichenbacher (2005Reichenbacher ( , 2007. As such, for this work and particularly for the experiments (see Sections 4 and 5), we are concerned with an egocentric perspective (see Raper 2007) of representing and assessing the relevance of geographic information.…”

Section: Criteria Of Relevance In Gisciencementioning

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Criteria of geographic relevance: an experimental study

Sabbata

Reichenbacher

2012

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

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The relevance of geographic information has become an emerging problem in geographic information science due to an enormous increase in volumes of data at high spatial, temporal, and semantic resolution, because of ever faster rates of new data capturing. At the same time, it is not clear whether the concept of relevance developed in information science and implemented for document-based information retrieval can be directly applied to this new, highly dynamic setting. In this study, we analyze the criteria users apply when judging the relevance of geographic entities in a given mobile usage context. Two different experiments have been set up in order to gather users' opinions on a set of possible criteria, and their relevance judgements in a given scenario. The importance ascribed to the criteria in both experiments clearly implies that a new concept of relevance is required when dealing with geographic entities instead of digital documents. This new concept of 'Geographic Relevance' is highly dependent on personal mobility and user's activity, whose understanding may in turn be refined by the assimilation of 'Geographic Relevance' itself.

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Section: Criteria Of Relevance In Gisciencementioning

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Criteria of geographic relevance: an experimental study

Sabbata

Reichenbacher

2012

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

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“…With the development of mobile devices, information retrieval models are now looking for more personalized ways to explore and make relevant recommendations within the mobile space. The notion of relevance has subsequently been developed into the field Geographic Relevance (GR) [3,4], to help adapt existing models to the mobile environment.…”

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Contextualized Relevance Evaluation of Geographic Information for Mobile Users in Location-Based Social Networks

Sun

Fan

2015

IJGI

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Abstract:The relevance of geographic information to mobile users must be evaluated by taking into account the usage context. This paper assumes that emerging Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs) contain contextual information rich enough to be used in order to contextualize such an evaluation process. This assumption is demonstrated through an exploratory analysis of a Foursquare check-in dataset, which reveals the impacts of two contextual factors-temporal and spatial-on mobility patterns. This paper then proposes an approach that may be used to contextualize the evaluation of geographic information's relevance. The proposed algorithm links a priori relevance to the contextualized relevance using the hidden impacts of contextual factors. Improved performance from the experiments carried out confirms the validity of the proposed approach, as well as the benefits of utilizing contextual information within the relevance evaluation process.

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“…A good design presents as much information as needed for focus and as little as required for context [25]. Four major interface schemes have been identified for focused and contextual views [4]: zooming, focus+context, overview+detail, and cue techniques.…”

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An interaction framework for level-of-abstraction visualization of 3D geovirtual environments

Semmo

Döllner

2014

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Interacting With Maps

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Figure 1: Touch-based interaction using our framework with the pinch-to-zoom metaphor to parameterize the level of abstraction of 3D geospatial objects in a region of interest for focus+context visualization.ABSTRACT 3D geovirtual environments constitute effective media for the analysis and communication of complex geospatial data. Today, these environments are often visualized using static graphical variants (e.g., 2D maps, 3D photorealistic) from which a user is able to choose from. To serve the different interests of users in specific information, however, the spatial and thematic granularity at which model contents are represented (i.e., level of abstraction) should be dynamically adapted to the user's context, which requires specialized interaction techniques for parameterization. In this work, we present a framework that enables interaction interfaces to parameterize the level-of-abstraction visualization according to spatial, semantic, and thematic data. The framework is implemented in a visualization system that provides imagebased rendering techniques for context-aware abstraction and highlighting. Using touch and natural language interfaces, we demonstrate its versatile application to geospatial tasks, including exploration, navigation, and orientation.

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The concept of relevance in mobile maps

Cited by 22 publications

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Criteria of geographic relevance: an experimental study

Criteria of geographic relevance: an experimental study

Contextualized Relevance Evaluation of Geographic Information for Mobile Users in Location-Based Social Networks

An interaction framework for level-of-abstraction visualization of 3D geovirtual environments

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