Emergency Sensing
UMaine informatics research is helping the Maine National Guard create an improved disaster relief information system. See UMaine Today
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Onsrud Speaks at Law and Technology Centers
A frequent invited speaker on law and technology topics, Professor Harlan Onsrud was featured as an invited speaker on March 5 for the opening of the new Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa. His talk on Ubiquitous Tracking: Supporting Privacy and Free Speech described emerging and likely pervasive surveillance environments […]
Read moreSpatial Information and Volunteering
Graduate students Guillaume-Hallee and Matt Dube report on the value of their spatial technology skills in aiding others through volunteerism in a short article on Spatial Information and Volunteering
Read moreBest Jobs in America
Check out the best jobs in America at http://www.focus.com/images/view/7362 You will find that many of them involve in-depth information technology skills including the top rated job in the nation. The criteria for selecting the best jobs is quite interesting. After narrowing the field of over 7000 jobs down to the top one hundred jobs using […]
Read moreJake in the News: UMaine Researchers Study Emergency Responder Technology
Jake Emerson was recently interviewed concerning his development research with emergency response technologies See the video at WLBZ News at http://www.wlbz2.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=114088&catid=3
Read moreEvidence for amodal representations after bimodal learning: Integration of haptic-visual layouts into a common spatial image.
Published: Oct 1, 2009 Author(s): Guidice, Nicholas A., Klatzky, Roberta L., Loomis, Jack M. Abstract: Participants learned circular layouts of 6 objects presented haptically or visually, then indicated the direction from a start target to an end target of the same or different modality (intra-modal versus inter-modal). When objects from the two modalities were learned separately, superior performance for […]
Read moreWorboys Selected for National Research Council Advisory Committee
Michael Worboys, chair of the Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, has been selected to serve on the Mapping Science Committee of the National Research Council, under the auspices of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. The appointment runs from Jan. 2009 through Dec. 2012. The Committee provides independent […]
Read moreSpatial learning and navigation using a virtual verbal display
Published: Jan 1, 2010 Author(s): Bakdash, Jonathan Z., Guidice, Nicholas A., Legge, Gordon E., Roy, Rudrava Abstract: We report on three experiments that investigate the efficacy of a new type of interface, called a virtual verbal display (VVD) for non-visual learning and navigation of computer-based virtual environments (VEs). Although verbal information has been studied for route-guidance, little is known about […]
Read moreNittel invited talk on Advances in Geosensor Networks at Workshop on Geospatial Information for Developing Countries at IIT Bombay, India
Dr Nittel presented an invited talk on the topic of “Advances in Geosensor Networks” at the Workshop on Geospatial Information for Developing Countries: Science and Technology at IIT Bombay, India, December 16-18, 2009. This workshop was organized by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), IIT Bombay, and Department of Computer Science, University of […]
Read moreTopological Relations from Metric Refinements
Published: Nov 1, 2009 Author(s): Dube, Matthew P., Egenhofer, Max J. Abstract: Naive Geography’s premise “Topology matters, metric refines” calls for metric properties that provide opportunities for finer grained distinctions than the purely qualitative topological relations. This paper defines a comprehensive set of eleven metric refinements that apply to the eight coarse topological relations between two regions that […]
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