Review: Young People, Place and Identity

Stabilizing homeless young people with information and place

In this paper we examine how information—particularly, its organization and presentation—and “space” (i.e., a physical location) can be combined to create a particular “place” (i.e., a location adapted to a particular purpose) for engaging and stabilizing homeless young people, aged 13–25. Over 10 months, we used a participatorydesign research approach to investigate how an alliance of nine ser...

Place-Dependent People Tracking

People typically move and act under the constraints of an environment, making human behavior strongly place-dependent. Motion patterns, the places and the rates at which people appear, disappear, walk or stand are not random but engendered by the environment. In this paper, we learn a non-homogeneous spatial Poisson process to spatially ground human activity events for the purpose of people tra...

On PlaceMark: Collaborative Authoring, Place, and Identity

Network Localities : Identity , Place , and Digital Media

Addressing debates about culture and globalization , this paper looks at how identity and place is produced through and within digital media infrastructures. “Network locality” describes affiliation that spans geography through media technology, but is grounded in concrete places, practices, and material relations. The contrast between global flows and local practice and identity is the wrong s...

Pnm-13: Young People and Infertility Related toAirpolution