Structural salience of landmarks for route directions

Alexander Klippel*, Stephan Winter

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Abstract

This paper complements landmark research with an approach to formalize the structural salience of objects along routes. The aim is to automatically integrate salient objects - landmarks - into route directions. To this end, two directions of research are combined: the formalization of salience of objects and the conceptualization of wayfinding actions. We approach structural salience with some taxonomic considerations of point-like objects with respect to their positions along a route and detail the effects of different positions on the conceptualization process. The results are used to extend a formal language of route knowledge, the wayfinding choreme theory. This research contributes to a cognitive foundation for next generation navigation support and to the aim of formalizing gcosemantics.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsA.G. Cohn, D.M. Mark
Pages347-362
Number of pages16
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2005 - Ellicottville, NY, United States
Duration: 14 Sept 200518 Sept 2005

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3693 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2005
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityEllicottville, NY
Period14/09/0518/09/05

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