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Participatory decision making the real potential for GIS in Sustainability
Jeff Thurston discusses the Connection of GIS to Sustainability and Matt Ball followed up with some interesting observations about GIS and its role in sustainability: I firmly believe that if we get the infrastructure part right, meaning that we invest in a core set of needed infrastructure, then we will be solving a large part […]
Viewing the “view zone” breaks down virtual barriers
October 26, 2007
Laura Pecchioli and Fawzi Mohamed have a good approach to overcoming the dual problems of integration of context information into virtual worlds and the connection of those virtual worlds to the real one. They have developed a system, ArchApp that links context information to 3d environments by means of a view zone. In their prototype […]
User generated game increases awareness of spatial environments
October 26, 2007
A demonstration stood out for me this morning at ICHIM. Hide’n’seek is a simple idea to increase engagement with user generated trails (www.hidenseek.us/). Each game becomes a weaving of memories based on experiences, clues, questions, challenges, and pictures that can allow a heightened awareness of space This gives: placed based knowledge without maps Thierry and […]
Computing for Sustainability 
December 10, 2007
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