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spatial@ucsb —perspectives for teaching and research
Full text linkThis brochure describes the intellectual basis for establishing the Center for Spatial Studies at UCSB. It highlights the role of spatial thinking across all knowledge domains
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Vertices 6—spatial@ucsb eNews
Full text linkThis issue of Vertices highlights the transition in leadership of the Center for Spatial Studies from Michael Goodchild (geographer and founder of the Center) to Mary Hegarty (psychologist and scholar of spatial cognition.Special attention is given to two educational innovations—the Center's development of what is possibly the world's first undergraduate minor in spatial studies and the introduction of a freshman seminar on Thinking Spatially in the Arts and Sciences.In addition, Daniel Montello sumarizes the results of an interdisciplinary conference at UC Merced on Exploring the Cave Experience from Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Kitty Currier has described the revival of the Center's Spatial Technology Lunch discussions
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Advancing the Spatially Enabled Smart Campus, Position Papers
Full text linkThis 2-day specialist meeting in December 2013 was conceived and organized by The Center for Spatial Studies (spatial@ucsb) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).The meeting combined “thinking big” (asking what will make campuses smarter in the future) with “acting small” (focusing on specific organizational and technological measures and their evaluation). Making our daily environments smart through technologies has been on research and political agendas for more than three decades, featuring a primary interest in the outdoor environments of cities. Smart city projects are now found throughout the world, focusing on environmental sustainability, e-governance, transportation, health, and other public goods by deploying innovative technologies for sensing, social networking, and knowledge integration. To some extent, campuses can be seen as “small cities,” raising similar concerns for their unique populations. Additionally, smart campuses have their own challenges and opportunities for support of creativity and interdisciplinary collaboration in science along with the involvement and education of technologically savvy students. Spatial thinking and computing are thought to be key enablers of smart campuses, but this case needs to be made more effectively with university administrators and domain scientists. The scope of these opportunities and challenges provided impetus for bringing together researchers and educators from multiple disciplines, campus planners, and representatives from industry, all of whom share interest in addressing issues of sustainability and knowledge infrastructures. The initial position papers from participants were distributed in advance of the meeting to help nurture discussions and collaborations
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Spatial Lightning Talks Overview
Full text linkThis document introductes the Spatial Lightning Talks, an annual event at the University of California, Santa Barbara, that brings together an interdisciplinary panel of speakers. Each is alotted three minutes to present a topic related to space—eographic or otherwise. A list of speakers and presentation titles, with links to each video on eScholarship, is included. Note that hyperlinks will only work if this document is downloaded and opened locally
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Report on the Center for Spatial Studies
Full text linkThis report summarizes the research, education, and outreach activities of the Center for Spatial Studies since its establishment in July 2007
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UCSB is Spatial
Full text linkThis brochure documents the interdisciplinary breadth of the spatial perspective for research and teaching. Although this argument focuses on UC Santa Barbara, it could be easily documented for nearly all institutions of highter learning
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Spatio-Temporal Constraints on Social Networks, Position Papers
Full text linkIn advance of the meeting, 34 researchers prepared position statements on the following kinds of questions:• What is the current state of knowledge with respect to spatiotemporal constraints on social networks and informationflows, particularly from a meta-network perspective?• How can theories of social network interaction be extended to incorporate the constraining effects of space, time, theInternet, and mass media?• Can probability distributions be developed for networks or network metrics that are parameterized by spatial andtemporal separation?• What rich sources of data can be found to calibrate and parameterize these new models?• What new metrics and models can be developed for assessing critical nodes, groups, and trails in and throughnetworks that take spatio-temporal constraints, the Internet, and mass-media effects into account?• Can we develop novel methods for visualizing the operation of spatio-temporal constraints and their effects on the flow of ideas and information through meta-networks?• What methods of inference are appropriate for detection of spatio-temporal and network constraints in crowd-sourced data, and what are appropriate metrics of uncertainty
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Vertices 2—spatial@ucsb eNews
Full text linkThis issue of Vertices features plans for developing a new inter-disciplinary undergraduate minor in spatial studies at UCSB. Campus-wide services for instruction and help with geographic information systems (GIS) are described
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Vertices 1—spatial@ucsb eNews
Full text linkThis is the first issue of Vertices, areport on the activities of the spatial studies center known as spatial@ucsb. It features details about inauguration events centered on the theme of "Connecting our Region through GIS and Geospatial Technologies.
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Spatial Information for Human Health, the 2015 Spatial Unconference, Call for Proposals
Full text linkA call for proposals to participate in the Spatial Unconference on Spatial Information for Human Health. The unconference takes place in Santa Barbara, CA, 9-11 December 2015. The deadline for submitting proposals is May 31, 2015
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