[4eyes] GEOG 288MR, Winter 10: LOCATION BASED SERVICES

[Matthew Turk]

FYI - interesting seminar next quarter..

 

From: Martin Raubal [mailto:raubal at geog.ucsb.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:16 AM
To: allgrad at geog.ucsb.edu; 'allresearch at geog.ucsb.edu'
Subject: GEOG 288MR, Winter 10: LOCATION BASED SERVICES

 

Hi all,

 

The grad seminar I'll offer in Winter 2010 (Wednesday 5-8, EH5824) will be
on LOCATION BASED SERVICES, currently a hot topic at the intersection of
GIScience, Computer Science, and the Social Sciences. For all of you who are
interested, here's the course description:

 

Increased mobility has affected many areas of our daily lives, such as
travel, communication, consumerism, social behavior, and the environment.
Mobile people face challenging problems in space and time. These problems
need to be solved on the spot, such as navigating an unfamiliar city or
deciding on the fastest public transportation mode to a destination.
Location Based Services (LBS) support people in their spatio-temporal
decision-making based on information that is tied to their location. These
services allow a user to query a location from a mobile terminal, such as a
mobile phone or personal digital assistant, and to exploit spatial
information about the user's surrounding environment, such as his/her
proximity to other entities in space. In this seminar we cover both
theoretical and practical aspects of LBS. Topics include mobile
decision-making and personalization; LBS architectures and positioning; LBS
applications such as navigation services, mobile guides, emergency services,
and location based social networking; and privacy and security. The seminar
will mainly consist of readings and discussions, but students will also get
some hands-on experience in designing, using, and evaluating LBS.

 

 

It'll be my last course here at UCSB before joining ETH Zurich, so hope to
see you there!

 

Cheers,

Martin

 

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