William Mackaness Institute of Geography PhD: The application of artificial intelligence techniques in automated cartography –Can we automate the process of design? –Methods of evaluation in autonomous design? –Cognitive ergonomics - what level of autonomy is achievable in interactive environments? –Shape grammars, spatial syntax, semiotics?

Research Qualitative reasoning in retail site location (allegorical reasoning) Dialogue systems in support of situational awareness –Verbal description of space –Automatic characterisation of space –Personalisation and contextualisation of information –EARS Map Generalisation –Automatic derivation of multi scale products from single detailed databases –Intelligent zoom –Pattern recognition

Informatics Information management study of natural & artificial systems …that sense, store process and communicate information. Geography scientific study of the locational and spatial variation in both physical and human phenomena on Earth …and the interdependencies between them Geoinformatics develops and uses information science infrastructure to address problems in the geosciences Reasoning / communicating ideas about space, and spatial process....visually / non visually Synthetic and real space – interactions and behaviours of humans in response

Informatics   Geography Behaviour and Response in real and synthetic worlds Communicating geographic information (visual/ non visual form) –in virtual and real worlds –in support of AR systems Automatic creation of descriptions of space (space syntax, formalisation of form-function relationships/ architecture) Representing and acquiring geographic information (Robitics)