6 results on '"Franz-Benjamin Mocnik"'
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2. A grounding-based ontology of data quality measures
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Franz-Benjamin Mocnik, Amin Mobasheri, Luisa Griesbaum, Melanie Eckle, Clemens Jacobs, and Carolin Klonner
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data quality ,fitness for purpose ,data quality measure ,grounding ,taxonomy ,spatial data ,OpenStreetMap (OSM) ,Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) ,Geography (General) ,G1-922 - Abstract
Data quality and fitness for purpose can be assessed by data quality measures. Existing ontologies of data quality dimensions reflect, among others, which aspects of data quality are assessed and the mechanisms that lead to poor data quality. An understanding of which source of information is used to judge about data quality and fitness for purpose is, however, lacking. This article introduces an ontology of data quality measures by their grounding, that is, the source of information to which the data is compared to in order to assess their quality. The ontology is exemplified with several examples of volunteered geographic information (VGI), while also applying to other geographical data and data in general. An evaluation of the ontology in the context of data quality measures for OpenStreetMap (OSM) data, a well-known example of VGI, provides insights about which types of quality measures for OSM data have and which have not yet been considered in literature.
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- 2018
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3. Shared Data Sources in the Geographical Domain—A Classification Schema and Corresponding Visualization Techniques
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Franz-Benjamin Mocnik, Christina Ludwig, A. Yair Grinberger, Clemens Jacobs, Carolin Klonner, and Martin Raifer
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Shared Data Source (SDS) ,Geographical Shared Data Source (GSDS) ,visualization ,semantics ,Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) ,Ambient Geographic Information (AGI) ,Participatory Geographic Information (PGI) ,conceptual space ,Geography (General) ,G1-922 - Abstract
People share data in different ways. Many of them contribute on a voluntary basis, while others are unaware of their contribution. They have differing intentions, collaborate in different ways, and they contribute data about differing aspects. Shared Data Sources have been explored individually in the literature, in particular OpenStreetMap and Twitter, and some types of Shared Data Sources have widely been studied, such as Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), Ambient Geographic Information (AGI), and Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS). A thorough and systematic discussion of Shared Data Sources in their entirety is, however, still missing. For the purpose of establishing such a discussion, we introduce in this article a schema consisting of a number of dimensions for characterizing socially produced, maintained, and used ‘Shared Data Sources,’ as well as corresponding visualization techniques. Both the schema and the visualization techniques allow for a common characterization in order to set individual data sources into context and to identify clusters of Shared Data Sources with common characteristics. Among others, this makes possible choosing suitable Shared Data Sources for a given task and gaining an understanding of how to interpret them by drawing parallels between several Shared Data Sources.
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- 2019
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4. Reduction of Map Information Regulates Visual Attention without Affecting Route Recognition Performance
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Julian Keil, Franz-Benjamin Mocnik, Dennis Edler, Frank Dickmann, and Lars Kuchinke
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cognitive cartography ,empirical cartography ,spatial cognition ,volunteered geographic information ,landmarks ,map pictograms ,route memory ,recognition ,story telling ,Geography (General) ,G1-922 - Abstract
Map-based navigation is a diverse task that stands in contradiction to the goal of completeness of web mapping services. As each navigation task is different, it also requires and can dispense with different map information to support effective and efficient wayfinding. Task-oriented reduction of the elements displayed in a map may therefore support navigation. In order to investigate effects of map reduction on route recognition and visual attention towards specific map elements, we created maps in which areas offside an inserted route were displayed as transparent. In a route memory experiment, where participants had to memorize routes and match them to routes displayed in following stimuli, these maps were compared to unmodified maps. Eye movement analyses revealed that in the reduced maps, areas offside the route were fixated less often. Route recognition performance was not affected by the map reduction. Our results indicate that task-oriented map reduction may direct visual attention towards relevant map elements at no cost for route recognition.
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- 2018
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5. Capturing Flood Risk Perception via Sketch Maps
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Carolin Klonner, Tomás J. Usón, Sabrina Marx, Franz-Benjamin Mocnik, and Bernhard Höfle
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flood risk ,participatory mapping ,survey-based mapping ,volunteered geographic information (VGI) ,Santiago de Chile ,Geography (General) ,G1-922 - Abstract
The fact that an increasing number of people and local authorities are affected by natural hazards, especially floods, highlights the necessity of adequate mitigation and preparedness within disaster management. Many governments, though, have only insufficient monetary or technological capacities. One possible approach to tackle these issues is the acquisition of information by sketch maps complemented by questionnaires, which allows to digitally capture flood risk perception. We investigate which factors influence information collected by sketch maps and questionnaires in case studies in an area prone to pluvial flooding in Santiago de Chile. Our aim is to gain more information about the methods applied. Hereby, we focus on the spatial acquisition scale of sketch maps and personal characteristics of the participants, for example, whether they live at this very location of the survey (residents) or are pedestrians passing by. Our results show that the choice of the acquisition scale of the base map influences the amount and level of detail of information captured via sketch maps. Thus, detail base maps lead to more precise results when compared to reference data, especially in the case of residents. The results also reveal that the place of living of the respondents has an effect on the resulting information because on the neighborhood level the risk perception of residents is more detailed than the one of pedestrians. The study suggests that the integration of citizens via sketch maps can provide information about flood risk perception, and thus can influence the flood mitigation in the area.
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- 2018
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6. Interdisciplinary perspectives on place
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Franz-Benjamin Mocnik, René Westerholt, Department of Geo-information Processing, UT-I-ITC-STAMP, and Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
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InformationSystems_GENERAL ,Geography (General) ,geographic information science ,place ,place attachment ,Geography, Planning and Development ,MathematicsofComputing_GENERAL ,platial ,G1-922 ,Computers in Earth Sciences ,ITC-GOLD ,GeneralLiterature_MISCELLANEOUS ,Information Systems - Abstract
The genius loci of many places is beyond description. Beyond description in the sense that we are not able to linguistically express what it feels like to be in this place, or whatit is that ultimately makes this place. For example, how could we describe the familiarityand the sense of belonging that we usually feel when we are at home, a place of origin.Home as a place can develop a very special identity and give us love, security, and comfort,but for some may evoke anxiety and fear instead, such as in cases of domestic violence.Only when we develop personal bounds to the flat, the building, the neighbourhood, orthe city in which we live, does this feeling of home become accessible to us. Without thedistinctive everyday routine, the habitus, and the familiarity, and perhaps also withoutthe will to engage with the place, it never becomes a home. And this being elsewhere isthe feeling Dorothy Gale has when she, in the film The Wizard of Oz, is whisked away toMunchkinland in the Land of Oz. She longs for home and wants to leave Munchkinland,but as we all know, this turns out not to be an easy task. Dorothy’s famous and recitativelyrepeated saying “There’s no place like home” embodies the previously described specialaura of home to which she longs to return. Even if it remains unclear throughout the filmwhether Dorothy was only dreaming or really in the Land of Oz, this suggests again thatin many senses home is beyond compare
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- 2022
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