Dr. Pragya Agarwal
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Location-based services, social networks, spatial cognition, spatial reasoning and representation, places and sense of place, semantics and spatial ontologies
Pragya is a Reader in ImaginationLancaster. With a degree in Architecture and a PhD in Geographic Information Science, her research activities have always been inter-disciplinary. Her primary interests have been to find innovative ways to capture, analyse and visualise people's behaviour at the confluence of spaces and technology. This is especially pertinent in the light of recent developments in location-based, as well as adaptive and ubiquitous technologies. Pragya is on programme committees for many international conference and seminar series, and has published well-cited papers on place and sense of place.
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Out of the box: The cognitive impacts of in-car navigation system use
This research is aimed at establishing the cognitive impacts of in-car navigation systems, by analysing the impact on attention while driving, information visualisation and delivery and the way that spatial information is processed.
Mapping sense of space in ubiquitous environments
This research is aimed at examining the role of locations and spatial designs in determining people's navigation and flows, and use of pervasive and ambient technologies to mine and map such interactions in space and time.
Agarwal, P. and Skupin A. (2008) Self-Organising Maps: Applications in Geographical Information Science, Wiley Europe.
Agarwal, P. (2008) Geospatial Semantic Web: Personalisation, in Shekhar, S. and Xiong, H. (Eds) Encyclopedia of GIS, Springer, Berlin
Agarwal, P., Bera,R., Claramunt,C. (2007) Inferences of Social and Spatial Communities over the World Wide Web in Arno Scharl, Klaus Tochtermann (Eds.) The Geospatial Web: How Geobrowsers, Social Software and the Web 2.0 are Shaping the Network Society, Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing Series, London: Springer
Agarwal, P., Bera,R., Claramunt,C. (2006) A social and spatial network approach to the investigation of research communities over the World Wide Web. 4th International Conference on GI Science 2006, Raubal,M., Miller,H., Frank A., Goodchild,M. (ed.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Muenster, Germany:Springer, 4197, 1-17
Agarwal, P. (2005) Ontological considerations in GIScience, International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS), Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 501 - 535.
Agarwal, P. (2005) Topological operators for ontological distinctions: disambiguating the geographic concepts of place, region and neighbourhood, Spatial Cognition and Computation, Vol 5, Issue 1, pp 69-88.
Agarwal, P. (2005) 'Sense of place' as a place indicator: establishing 'sense of place' as a cognitive operator for semantics in place-based ontologies, in Mark, D.M. and Cohn, A.G. (eds.) Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT) 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 3693, pp. 96-114, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Agarwal, P. (2004) Contested nature of 'place': knowledge mapping for resolving ontological distinctions between geographical concepts, In Egenhofer, M., Freksa, C., Harvey, M. (Eds.) Third International Conference GIScience 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, LNCS 3234, pp. 1-21.
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