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Social Geoscape provides highly descriptive geographical information by using user-generated tags from a massive number of geotagged photos on the Internet to create a virtual people-friendly display that can assist user recognition of a particular location. A traditional reverse-geocoding database system provides locative information based on administrative labeling, but people often do not recognize locations or their surrounding environs from street addresses alone. To address this problem with location recognition, we have created Social Geoscape, a reverse geocoding system that enhances locative data with user-generated information and provides assistance through a mobile interface.

 

Social Geoscapeはインターネット上の緯度経度情報付きの大量の写真とそのタグを実世界での集合知とみなし,それを集積・解析することで、人々の主観的な感覚に合致したリバースジオコーディングを自動的に行う、ユーザの空間意識の可視化システムである。 現状のリバースジオコーディングでは行政的な地番に基づいて変換を行うため、モバイルアプリケーションを利用する利用者の主観的な空間意識とは必ずしも一致しない(たとえば「表参道」「ハチ公前」のような表現は地番ではないため利用不可能だった。)。ユーザはSocial Geoscapeが構築する実世界集合知を用いて、都市生活者の空間イメージが反映された地理情報を利用することができる。

 

 

Social Geoscape (2011-)

Publications:

[ACM]Koh Sueda, Henry Been-Lirn Duh, and Jun Rekimot. 2012. Social life logging: can we describe our own personal experience by using collective intelligence?. In Proceedings of the 10th asia pacific conference on Computer human interaction (APCHI '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 41-50. DOI=10.1145/2350046.2350058 (acceptance rate: 26.5%).

 

* Sueda, K., Miyaki, T., Rekimoto, J., Social Geoscape: Visualizing an Image of the City for Mobile UI Using User Generated Geo-tagged Objects, Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, 2011. MOBIQUITOUS 2011. The Eighth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems, 2011 (acceptance rate: 28%), DOI

10.1007/978-3-642-30973-1_1.

 

Visualizing Image Of The City From Geotagged Photos, IPSJ Journal Vol.52 No. 4, pp.1-10, 2011.

2010

 

Funded projects:

Easy Tagging Cam, principal investigator, Nakayama Hayao Foundation For Science & Technology and Culture, Japan (0.9M yen (US$10,000), April 2010 – October 2011)

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