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A Collaborative Mobile Cultural Mapping Workshop & Exhibition at ISEA 2015

Today I attend A Collaborative Mobile Cultural Mapping Workshop & Exhibition at ISEA 2015 The workshop started with the participants introducing themselves and briefly talked about their own research interests. Next, Dr. Martha Ladly took over to give a quick…
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Social Media as Instrument for Civic Engagement and Political Pressure: A Cartography of #TransitReferendum in Vancouver

Conventionally, civic engagement takes forms as deliberative and decision making processes, such as elections, referendums, and public consultations. However, civic engagement does not reduce the single act of vote, recognized as the “democratic duty.” Rather, the debate about collective issues…
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Visualizing of Human Spatial Movements From a Personal Perspective

Leibniz (1646-1716) once observed that all things “are, like ‘rivers, in a perpetual flux; small parts enter and leave them continually,’” suggesting that “‘the very substance of things’ consists in ‘their force to act and be acted upon’” (as cited…
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Effectiveness and Efficiency of Time Representation of Human Spatial Movement on Geographic Maps

At first glance, human spatial flow seems to be chaotic: endless vectors of movement coming and going to an infinite number of places. Movements are transitory and temporary, which makes difficult to understand and analyze their nature and rules. But…
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