During the last years approaches to ”interactive mapping” or ”Human Augmented Mapping” with and for service robots have become of increasing interest both for robotic mapping methods and for the investigation of Human Robot Interaction. The underlying idea is to take a robot on a guided tour and explain the surroundings to it. This guided tour rises questions both regarding the technological de...

Spatial haptics is a fascinating technology with which users can explore and modify 3D computer graphics objects with the sense of touch, but its application potential is often misunderstood. For a large group of application designers it is still unknown, and those who are aware of it often have either too high expectations of what is technically achievable or believe it is too complicated to c...

Since the seminal work of Becker (1968), a large empirical literature has developed around the estimation and testing of economic models of crime. Recently, spatial interactions of crime incidents have become one of the research areas in economics in connection with the progress of spatial econometrics. But these models of crime based on aggregated data relied heavily on cross-sectional econome...

Nematic liquid crystals are excellent medium for nonlinear optics, both in three-dimensional bulk systems [1-2] as well as in waveguide structures [3-4]. The main contribution to nonlinear optical phenomena in liquid crystals arises from thermal and reorientational processes. While the thermal effect is similar to that observed in other materials, the reorientational effect is characteristic on...

1 In a collaborative project between GMAP Ltd. and EPCC, an existing heuristic optimisation scheme for strategic resource planning was parallelised to run on the data parallel Connection Machine CM-200. The parallel software was found to run over 2700 times faster than the original workstation software. This has allowed the exploration of complex business planning strategies at a national, rath...

The VICs project is exploring the development of modular, adaptable software systems for vision-based, human-computer interaction. The key idea of this approach is to use local visual interaction cues (VICs) on a video stream shared between the user and the machine. A VIC consists of a graphical representation (e.g. an icon) superimposed on the video stream (thus visible to the user), associate...

This paper presents SpatialVis, a system for logging spatial gesture interactions and a visualization interface to analyze those logs. SpatialVis overlays a gesture log visualization atop screen recordings of interaction sessions to allow for replay of experimental trials. We discuss the challenges of logging spatial interactions and recommendations for best practices.