Increasing availability of sensor-based location traces for individuals, combined with the goal of better understanding user context, has resulted in a recent emphasis on algorithms for automatically extracting users’ significant places from location data. Place-finding can be characterized by two sub-problems, (1) finding significant locations, and (2) assigning semantic labels to those locati...

Recordings of rat hippocampal place cells have provided information about how the hippocampus retrieves memory sequences. One line of evidence has to do with phase precession, a process organized by theta and gamma oscillations. This precession can be interpreted as the cued prediction of the sequence of upcoming positions. In support of this interpretation, experiments in two-dimensional envir...

today, concepts such as place attachment, sense of place, meaning of place, place identity, has devoted many studies in literature of architecture and urban design particularly in the field of environmental psychology. it is obvious that in all these concepts, various aspects of interaction between human and place and the impact that places have on people has been presented. this paper defines ...

The hippocampus is essential for spatial navigation, which may involve sequential learning. However, how the hippocampus encodes new sequences in familiar environments is unknown. To study the impact of novel spatial sequences on the activity of hippocampal neurons, we monitored hippocampal ensembles while rats learned to switch from two familiar trajectories to a new one in a familiar environm...

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina drew attention to commonplace landscape markers that create for a community a sense of place—that connection between people and places crucial to a sense of corporate and individual identity and heritage. There is a legal context for sense of place within extant federal preservation legislation. Nevertheless, many such markers with special meanings for residen...

"Sense of place" offers esource managers a way to identify and respond to the emotional and spiritual bonds people form with certain spaces. We examine reasons forthe increasing interest in he concept and offer four broad recommendations for applying sense of place to ecosystem management. By i itiating a discussion about sense ofplace, managers can build a working relationship withthe public t...

In this paper an algorithm to optimize switching sequences for a class of switched linear problems is presented. The algorithm searches for solutions which are arbitrarily close to optimal – finding the optimal solution does often require a much larger search. Both deterministic and stochastic problems are considered.

The focus of this paper is on the relationship between technology and language documentation and description. It is largely inspired by Bird and Simons (2003), or more specifically, section 4 of that paper (Bird and Simons 2003:570–2), where they suggest a general model for developing recommendations for the use of technology in the creation of linguistic resources—which I term the values-desid...

A Personal Digital Store C yberAll is a project to encode, store, and allow easy retrieval of all of a person’s information for personal and professional use. The archive includes books, CDs, correspondence (such as letters, memos, and email), transactions, papers, photos and albums, and video. In 2000, only 16 gigabytes are required to store all the media in my personal and professional life—a...