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GeoLapse. A Digital Space-Based and Memory-Related Time-Capsule App

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Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2015 (ICCSA 2015)

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The paper explores the relationship between space and time through the memory based experience of serendipity. GeoLapse – the name of the prototypal mobile app – is based on the idea of allowing users to send messages located in space and – simultaneously or asynchronously – in time aimed to create a sort of digital time-capsule.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza Dell’Ateneo Nuovo 1, 20126, Milan, Italy

    Letizia Bollini, Giulia Busdon & Annalisa Mazzola

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  1. Letizia Bollini
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  1. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

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  2. University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

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  3. Covenant University, Canaanland, Nigeria

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  4. University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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  7. Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

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  8. Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan

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Bollini, L., Busdon, G., Mazzola, A. (2015). GeoLapse. A Digital Space-Based and Memory-Related Time-Capsule App. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2015. ICCSA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9156. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21407-8_48

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