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    Commonsense notions of proximity and direction

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    WORBOYS, MICHAEL; DUCKHAM, MATT; KULIK, LARS
    Date
    2004
    Source Title
    Spatial Cognition and Computation
    Publisher
    Springer Verlag
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Kulik, Lars; Duckham, Matt; WORBOYS, MICHAEL
    Affiliation
    Engineering: Department of Geomatics
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    Document Type
    Journal (Paginated)
    Citations
    Worboys, M., Duckham, M., & Kulik, L. (2004). Commonsense notions of proximity and direction. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 4(4), 285-312.
    Access Status
    Open Access
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/33594
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    © 2004 Springer Verlag. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com

    Abstract
    It is desirable that formal theories of qualitative reasoning should be informed by the ways in which humans conceptualize the spaces in which they live. The work described in this paper uses data provided in experiments with human subjects to derive some regularities in such conceptualizations. The data concerns human conceptualization of proximity and direction within a university campus. The results are analyzed using several approaches. In particular, the relationship between geometric and human conceptual models of the space is explored; the structure and regularities of combinations of proximity and direction relations are examined; and the issue of granularity in vague spatial relations is considered. Overall, the results show that while individual differences between humans are important, there are striking regularities in the population’s notions of distance and direction in the space. The paper concentrates primarily on the formal foundations of commonsense notions of proximity and direction, but also identifies links to more applied domains, such as mobile and location-aware navigation systems.
    Keywords
    qualitative spatial reasoning; vagueness; granularity; near; left

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