Creating Web Representations for Places

Creating Visual Summaries for Geographic Regions

Queries for place names represent a hefty chunk of Web image searches. Generic image retrieval solutions do not use any geographic information to improve the results for queries with place names, while systems like Flickr Places [3] or Panoramio [11] exploit raw georeferencing information to illustrate places. In this paper, we present a method for generating informative and diversified visual ...

Uniform Web presence architecture for people, places, and things

The Cooltown vision is that people, places, and things have a web representation and that many useful services can be offered by creating a tighter link between the real world entity and its virtual representation. We defined a horizontal and uniform software architecture for building a Web presence for people, places and things. This architecture enables the dynamic generation of Web contents ...

Computer-mediated communication as a virtual third place: building Oldenburg's great good places on the world wide web

The sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined the term ‘third place’ or ‘great good places’ to describe the public spaces used for informal social interaction outside of the home and workplace. Oldenburg’s conceptualization has been used consistently to describe the communication of computer-mediated contexts such as chatrooms and multiuser environments. This analysis examines the accuracy, utility and ...

Book Review: Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Effective Public Places

1st International Symposium: Global Cities and Cosmopolitan Dreams, Barcelona, Spain, May 2015

The digital revolution has often been associated with the blurring of geographical boundaries, as it has led to new forms of territorial recognition and (un)differentiation. As physical distances have vanished, barriers have become more ambiguous and increasingly conditioned by the subjective experience of digital reconfigurations of actual and fictional places. At the same time, urban spaces h...