Research

In route communications, people use qualitative relations and landmarks to describe places, while current navigation systems can not deal with such flexible place descriptions in natural language. My research focuses on the communication between human wayfinders and navigation systems on where questions. The goal is to interpret the semantics of place descriptions from wayfinders' context for navigation systems. This research is under the supervision of Dr. Stephan Winter. This research includes an experiment.

This research is supported by the ARC Discovery Project Intelligent Self-Organizing Transport (DP0878119).

Publications

• Winter, S.; Wu, Y., 2008: The "Spatial Turing Test". In: Navratil, G. (Ed.), Colloquium for Andrew U. Frank's 60th Birthday. Geoinfo Series, Department for Geoinformation and Cartography, Technical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria, pp. 109-116.
• Wu, Y., 2008: Opening a Dialog with Navigation Systems. In: Bertel, S.; Ragni, M. (Eds.), Doctoral Colloquium of Spatial Cognition 2008. SFB/TR8, Freiburg, Germany, pp. 9-12.
• Wu, Y.; Winter, S., 2008: Communicating with Navigation Systems about Places. In: Hölscher, C. (Ed.), Spatial Cognition 2008. Poster Proceedings. SFB/TR8, Freiburg, Germany, pp. 81-84.
• Winter, S.; Wu, Y., 2008: Towards a Conceptual Model of Talking to a Route Planner. In: Bertolotto, M.; Ray, C.; Li, X. (Eds.), Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5373. Springer, Berlin, pp. 107-123.
• Winter, S.; Wu, Y., 2008: Intelligent Spatial Communication. In: Navratil, G. (Ed.). Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, Under peer review.
• Wu, Y.-H.; Guan, L.-J.; Winter, S., 2008: Peer-to-Peer Shared Ride Systems. In: Nittel, S.; Labrinidis, A.; Stefanidis, A. (Eds.), Advances in Geosensor Networks. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin.
• Wu, Y., 2007: Agent Behavior in Peer-to-peer Shared Ride Systems. Master thesis, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 104 pp.
• Wu, Y.-H.; Guan, L.-J.; Winter, S., 2006: Types of Agents in Peer-to-Peer Shared Ride Systems. In: Nittel, S.; Stefanidis, A.; Labrinidis, A. (Eds.), 2nd International Conference on Geosensor Networks, Boston, MA, pp. 27-38.
• Wu, Y.-H.; Winter, S., 2006: Agent Behavior in Peer-to-Peer Shared Ride Trip Planning. In: Raubal, M. et al. (Eds.), Geographic Information Science. IfGI Prints. Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster, Münster, Germany, pp. 411-414.

Presentations

• Wu, Y.: Communicating with Navigation Systems about Places. Research Seminar, ASPIRE, Melbourne, Australia, 4 September 2008.
• Wu, Y.: Opening a Dialog with Navigation Systems. Research Seminar, Department of Geomatics, Melbourne, Australia, 11 September 2008.
• Wu, Y.: Opening a Dialog with Navigation Systems. Doctoral Colloquium, Spatial Cognition 2008, Freiburg, Germany, 18 September 2008.
• Wu, Y.: Towards a Conceptual Model of Talking to a Route Planner. Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems 2008, Shanghai, China, 11 December 2008.
• Wu, Y.: Types of Agents in Peer-to-Peer Shared Ride Systems. 2nd International Conference on Geosensor Networks, Boston, MA, 2 October 2006.
• Wu, Y.-H.; Guan, L.-J.; Vieira, C.; Winter, S.: An ad-hoc shared ride system in (simulated) action. Research Seminar of the Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne, 6 April 2006

Education

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