Previous research suggests that individuals tend to form spatial habits (i.e., placing objects in consistent locations in space) when interacting with objects in the environment (Zhu & Risko, in press). However, it remains unclear how such spatial habits develop over time. One hypothesis suggests that spatial habit formation may involve a process of stabilization whereby individuals’ spatial be...

Human preferences are found to be characterized by a neglect of impacts occuring in the future or at a distance. Concerning the spatial dimension, diffusion of pollution may justify this reduced concern. There are many cases, however, where spatial discounting is not justified. Such cases increase in importance with eased world trade, when consumers become responsible for impact increasingly lo...

Spatial analysis is key to the formulation and evaluation of physical planning initiatives. The current thesis combines various forms of spatial analysis and many newly available and highly detailed spatial data sets in a series of studies related to different spatial-planning issues. Open-space preservation is the most common objective of the studied policy interventions, but concern for other...

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Vision-based human affect analysis is an interesting and challenging problem, impacting important applications in many areas. In this paper, beyond facial expressions, we investigate affective body gesture analysis in video sequences, a relatively understudied problem. Spatial-temporal features are exploited for modeling of body gestures. Moreover, we present to fuse facial expression and body ...