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Falko Schmid

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Personal Information

Title Dr.-Ing.
Function Postdoctoral Researcher
Office 4.14
Phone 64284
eMail schmid

Profession

About me

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the IRTG Semantic Integration of Geospatial Information and the Transregional Collaborative Research Center Spatial Cognition. My goal is to improve the understanding of maps and the interaction with geographic data on small mobile devices. I aim to develop specialized maps and interaction techniques that are efficient for a specific task. During the last years I mainly gained expertise in the fields of small display cartography, schematization, mobile wayfinding assistance, volunteered geographic information, and cognitive representation and reasoning about space. My further research is concerned with the improvement of social interaction and communication in intelligent environments.

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Interests

The main goal of my research is to enhance mobile wayfinding assistance. I am interested in geographic information visualization beyond the traditional map. I develop schematic maps, highly specialized maps that are adapted to the task, the environment, and the user. schematic maps contain less information but are at the same time more efficient. The selected information is really relevant for a specific task in a specific environment for a given user. My work is based on research in the areas of spatial cognition, wayfinding behavior, place theory, geo-semantic analysis, human-computer-interaction, trajectory analysis, qualitative spatial reasoning and representation. My papers contribute to small display cartography, mobile mapping, spatial cognition, location based services, ubiquitous computing, human-computer interaction, and moving object databases.

Research Projects

IRTG Semantic Integration of Geospatial Information
http://irtg-sigi.uni-muenster.de/

Initial Training Network GeoCrowd
http://www.geocrowd.eu/

Research Center on Spatial Cognition
http://www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de/

Publications

To Appear

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    SpARTA: A Spatially Aware Reasoning and Tracking Algorithm
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    Proceedings GIZeitgeist

2011

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2009

2008

2007

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    2007
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    Formulating, Identifying, and Analyzing Individual Spatial Knowledge
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    Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW 2007)
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    pages 655-660
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    IEEE Computer Society
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    Los Alamitos, CA, USA
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    2007
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    Personalized Maps for Mobile Wayfinding Assistance
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    Proceedings of the 4. Internat. Symposium on Location Based Services & TeleCartography
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    ed. E. Mok, G. Gartner
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    Department of Land Surveying & Geo-Informatics, HongKong Polytechnic University
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    HongKong
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    2007
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    Customizing Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Calculi
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    Proceedings of the 20th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-07)
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    Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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    2007
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    Personalized Wayfinding Assistance, International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (Cosit) 2007, Melbourne, Australia
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    2007
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    Route Aware Maps, GI-Days 2007, Münster, Germany

2006

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    2006
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    Extracting Places from Location Data Streams
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    UbiGIS 2006 - Second International Workshop on Ubiquitous Geographical Information Services
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    2006
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    Utilizing Previous Spatial Knowledge for Personalized Wayfinding Assistance
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    Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Ubiquitous Pervasive and Internet Mapping (UPIMap 2006)
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    Seoul, Korea
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    2006
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    Personalized Wayfinding Assistance
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    Proceedings of Spatial Cognition Doctoral Colloquium at KI2006
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    vol. 3-88722-667-4
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    ed. Universität Bremen (Ed.)
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    Universität Bremen