This paper envisions having an open-source web portal for detailed worldwide road network maps with rich metadata. This would be major advancement from current portals that only have road networks without important metadata, including traffic-related ...

Prior work has studied the interaction experiences of screen-reader users with simple online data visualizations (e.g., bar charts, line graphs, scatter plots), highlighting the disenfranchisement of screen-reader users in accessing information from ...

The article is devoted to most popular free online resources according to Earth Observing System research, that can be used to solve individual analytical problems in the study of geospatial images. The functions of such services as Earth Explorer, Land ...

As a form of distant reading, mapping texts allows scholars to read classical works anew. Using 17^th French theatre as a test case, we describe an easily reproducible and fully open-source workflow used for extracting and mapping place names, then reach ...

In order to meet the requirements of lightweight and precision for indoor mobile robots, this paper proposes a mapping method named as VFCDSA (Visual field constrained de-sampling algorithm) based on depth camera and 2D lidar. To save the computation, ...

Information diffusion analysis is important in social media. In this work, we present a coherent ego-centric and event-centric model to investigate diffusion patterns and user behaviors. Applying the model, we propose Diffusion Map+ (D-Maps+), a novel ...

Landslide risk zones are common in urban areas of Brazil. Around the world, studies to map landslide hazard are common and they use different methodologies; however, very few studies focus on mapping landslide risk areas. In occupied urban areas, ...

Bootstrapping efforts and scalability issues hinder large-scale deployment of indoor navigation systems. We present FollowUs, an easily-deployable (bootstrap-free) and scalable indoor navigation system. In addition to robust navigation through real-time ...

In this paper, we investigate a method of creating noise maps that take account of human senses. Physical measurements are not enough to design our living environment and we need to know subjective assessments. To predict subjective assessments from ...

The Aural Fabric is an interactive textile sonic map created to promote engagement in acoustic awareness towards the built environment. It fosters discussions on the aural environment of our cities by allowing users to experience binaural recordings ...

Although there is abundant evidence that individual differences such as cognitive abilities impact visualization effectiveness, this influence has mostly been shown for fictional tasks/scenarios. This paper extends previous findings by investigating the ...

Open data is a resource that both local governments and citizens can use for answering questions about a particular community and for innovating new products and services. In reality, there are a number of barriers to the use of open data, not least ...

Road traffic injuries are a critical public health challenge that requires valuable efforts for effective and sustainable prevention. Worldwide, an estimated 1.2 million people are killed in road crashes each year and as many as 50 million are injured. ...

The purpose of this study is to identify the current research status on linguistic decision making through visualization method. The effective information visualization tool called CiteSpace was used to dig out how the research of linguistic decision ...

MyHealthAvatar is a project designed to collect lifestyle and health data to promote citizen’s wellbeing. As a lifetime companion of citizens the amount of data to be collected is large. It is almost impossible for citizens, patients and doctors to view,...

Precise positioning of an automobile to within lane-level precision can enable better navigation and context-awareness. However, GPS by itself cannot provide such precision in obstructed urban environments. In this paper, we present a system called ...

Precise positioning of an automobile to within lane-level precision can enable better navigation and context-awareness. However, GPS by itself cannot provide such precision in obstructed urban environments. In this paper, we present a system called ...

Mobile applications (apps) have become part of our everyday life with a constantly increasing market. Of particular interest are apps aiding planning and collaboration among family members, or between co-workers. The architecture of such apps usually ...

A smart car can be defined in various dimensions. In this paper, we consider a gaze-based driver query processing system where the vehicle recognizes where the driver is looking at when she asks about roadside landmarks. By linking the tracked gaze of ...

The many advantages of line segment-based maps over occupancy grid maps and the virtues of Monte Carlo-based localization methods have motivated us to formulate a Monte Carlo-based pose tracking method on a map represented with line segments. This paper ...