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Data-driven Personal Cartographic Perspectives — An Overview of Applied, Artistic, and Academic Visualization Projects for Egocentric Retrospective Analysis of Personal Spatia-Temporal Behavior

Datenbasierte persönliche Karten — Angewandte, künstlerische und akademische Visualisierungsprojekte zur egozentrischen retrospektiven Analyse persönlichen Raum-Zeit-Verhaltens im Überblick

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Abstract

With the continuing diffusion of Global-Positioning-System (GPS)-enabled technologies, the accumulation of spatio-temporal information is growing to unprecedented extends. Many use cases are centered around commercial data-driven services for citizens, companies, and government institutions, as well as academic research. Aside from these domains, a number of applications try to enable citizens to explore their own data, instead of merely using their data to drive a certain third-party service. This article investigates research projects and applications that explore such reflective practices on personal user-generated spatio-temporal data. The exemplars discussed in this paper all share the overall goal to provide users with new insights into their own spatia-temporal behavior.

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Mit der fortschreitenden Verbreitung von GPS-fähigen Technologien wächst die Ansammlung von raum-zeitlichen Informationen und Daten in beispiellosen Ausmaßen. Die meisten Anwendungsfälle konzentrieren sich auf kommerzielle datengesteuerte Dienste für Bürgerinnen und Bürger. Unternehmen und Regierungsinstitutionen sowie aufakademische Forschung. Abgesehen von diesen Domänen versucht eine Rei he von Anwendungen, Bürgerinnen und Bürger zu ermöglichen, ihre eigenen Oaten zu erkunden, anstatt ihre Daten nur dazu zu verwenden, Dienste von Drittanbietern zu sWtzen. Dieser Artikel untersucht Forschungsprojekte und -anwendungen, die solche reflektierenden Praktiken auf persönliche, vom Benutzer generierte raumzeitliche Daten an wenden. Die in diesem Artikel diskutierten Anwendungsfälle sind durch den Anspruch geprägt, den Nutzerinnen und Nutzer neue Einblicke in ihr eigenes raumzeitliches Verhalten zu geben.

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Meier, S., Glinka, K. Data-driven Personal Cartographic Perspectives — An Overview of Applied, Artistic, and Academic Visualization Projects for Egocentric Retrospective Analysis of Personal Spatia-Temporal Behavior. j. Cartogr. Geogr. inf. 68, 127–133 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03544555

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