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William Mackaness
• Institute of Geography
• [email protected]
• PhD: The application of artificial intelligence
techniques in automated cartography
– Can we automate the process of design?
– Methods of evaluation in autonomous design?
– Cognitive ergonomics - what level of autonomy is
achievable in interactive environments?
– Shape grammars, spatial syntax, semiotics?
Research
• Qualitative reasoning in retail site location (allegorical
reasoning)
• Dialogue systems in support of situational awareness
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Verbal description of space
Automatic characterisation of space
Personalisation and contextualisation of information
EARS
• Map Generalisation
– Automatic derivation of multi scale products from single detailed
databases
– Intelligent zoom
– Pattern recognition
Informatics
Geography
• Information management
• scientific study of the
locational and spatial
variation in both physical
and human phenomena
on Earth
• study of natural & artificial
systems
• …that sense, store
process and
communicate information.
Geoinformatics
• develops and uses
information science
infrastructure to address
problems in the
geosciences
• …and the
interdependencies
between them
• Reasoning /
communicating ideas about
space, and spatial process
• ....visually / non visually
• Synthetic and real space –
interactions and behaviours
of humans in response
Informatics   Geography
• Behaviour and Response in real and synthetic
worlds
• Communicating geographic information (visual/
non visual form)
– in virtual and real worlds
– in support of AR systems
• Automatic creation of descriptions of space
(space syntax, formalisation of form-function
relationships/ architecture)
• Representing and acquiring geographic
information (Robitics)