http://liftlab.com/think/fabien/2007/10/07/representing-spatio-temporal-traces/ Fabien Girardin Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:53:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 http://liftlab.com/think/fabien/2007/10/07/representing-spatio-temporal-traces/#comment-320250 joss Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:57:22 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/fabien/2007/10/07/representing-spatio-temporal-traces/#comment-320250 It seems indeed important to cross traces with usage : a vertical approach might reveal some patterns that would be otherwise disappear in the amount of data. Your catchbob data are meaningful in respect to the experiment, and would they be unlabelled and lost in the middle of the traces left by all the people walking around, their marginal informational value would be very limited. Some subjective data would also be interesting : as Paul Dourish points out in <a href="http://www.isr.uci.edu/~jpd/publications/2006/cscw2006-space.pdf" rel="nofollow">Re-Space-ing Place</a> notions of space and place are highly subjective and contingent on the people, their activities, etc... Similar traces might cover different perceptions of the journey. It seems indeed important to cross traces with usage : a vertical approach might reveal some patterns that would be otherwise disappear in the amount of data. Your catchbob data are meaningful in respect to the experiment, and would they be unlabelled and lost in the middle of the traces left by all the people walking around, their marginal informational value would be very limited.
Some subjective data would also be interesting : as Paul Dourish points out in Re-Space-ing Place notions of space and place are highly subjective and contingent on the people, their activities, etc… Similar traces might cover different perceptions of the journey.

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