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A/PROF STEPHAN WINTER



Contact Details

Organization: Geomatics
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Email:
Homepage: http://www.geom.unimelb.edu.au/winter.html
Work: 8344 7875
Fax: 9347 2916
Room: 211
Level: 02
Building: Engineering Block B
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
human orientation, wayfinding and navigation Australia, Western Europe, United States of America
spatial cognitive engineering Australia, United States of America, Germany, Austria
geosensor networks Australia
intelligent transportation systems Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States University of California - Santa Barbara Exchange, Research
Germany Universitaet Bremen Exchange, Research
Austria Technical University Vienna Research
Germany University of Muenster Exchange, Research, Teaching
United States University of Maine Exchange, Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Diplom Ingenieur University of Bonn 31-Dec-1990
Doktor des Ingenieurwesens University of Bonn 31-Dec-1997
Habilitation (tenure) Technical University Vienna 31-Dec-2001

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member ACM SIGSPATIAL 01-Aug-2000
Member IEEE ITS Society 01-Jan-2004
Member SSI Chair Victorian Spatial Information and Cartography Commission 01-Jan-2004
Member ISPRS Co-Chair WG II/1 01-Jan-1990

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) ISPRS U. V. Helava Award 01-Jul-2008
Scholarship Hanse Institute for Advanced Studies 01-Oct-2007

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Intelligent Self-Organizing Transport Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008
SMART LOCATION SENSORS FOR EMERGENCY RESPONDERS Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage International Awards 01/01/2008
Agent-based Modelling for Honeybee Epidemiology Principal Supervisor RURAL INDUSTRIES R & D CORPORATION Postgraduate Scholarships 30/01/2008

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
CRC SPATIAL INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION Chief Investigator CRC FOR SPATIAL INFORMATION 10/02/2004
CRC 3.3 Access to Spatial Data Chief Investigator CRC FOR SPATIAL INFORMATION 10/02/2004
MODEL OF LANDMARKS IN ROUTE INSTRUCTIONS - SENSIS Chief Investigator SPATIAL INFORMATIONS SYSTEMS LIMITED 22/01/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • A New Direction: Routing by Landmarks


    Year: 2009
    Journal: GeoInformatics
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 58-59
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  • Pragmatic Construction of Destination Descriptions for Urban Environments


    Year: 2009
    Journal: Spatial Cognition and Computation
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-29
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  • Variable Granularity in Route Directions


    Year: 2009
    Journal: Spatial Cognition and Computation
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 64-93
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  • Does Place Have a Place in Geographic Information Science?
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Spatial Cognition and Computation
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 171-173
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  • Spatial Intelligence: Ready for a Challenge?
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Spatial Cognition and Computation
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 138-151
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  • Urban granularities - a data structure for cognitively ergonomic route directions
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Geoinformatica
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 223-247
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Decentralized Time Geography for Ad-Hoc Collaborative Planning


    Year: 2009
    Event name: COSIT 2009 - 9th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory
    Conference Publication: Spatial Information Theory (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
    Volume: 5756
    Page numbers: 436-452
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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Publications in 2008

Books

Book Chapters

  • Peer-to-Peer Shared Ride Systems
    Year: 2008
    Book: GeoSensor Networks (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
    Publisher: Springer Verlag
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  • The "Spatial Turing Test"
    Year: 2008
    Book: Colloqium for Andrew U. Frank's 60th Birthday - Geoinfo Series
    Publisher: Department of Geoinformation and Cartography, Technical University Vienna(Vienna)
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  • Towards a Conceptual Model of Talking to a Route Planner
    Year: 2008
    Book: Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
    Publisher: Springer Verlag
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Journal Articles

  • Queries for historic events in geosensor networks


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Location Based Services
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 177-193
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  • A dialog-driven process of generating route directions
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 233-245
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  • Experiential hierarchies of streets
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 41-52
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  • Landmark hierarchies in context
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Environment and Planning B - Planning & Design
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 381-398
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  • What is the Value of Spatial Information?
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Position
    Volume: -
    Issue: 35
    Page numbers: 1-4
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Publications in 2007

Books

  • Spatial Information Theory
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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Publications in 2006

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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Focalizing Measures of Salience for Wayfinding


    Year: 2005
    Book: Map-based Mobile Services
    Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg(Heidelberg)
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Journal Articles

  • GI for the public: The terrorist attack in London
    Year: 2005
    Journal: GeoInformatics
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 18-21
    Publisher: CMedia Productions(Emmeloord)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A high-Level Cognitive Framework for Route Directions
    Year: 2005
    Event name: SSC 2005 Spatial Intelligence, Innovation and Praxis: The National Biennial Conference of the Spatial Science Institute.
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of SSC 2005 Spatial Intelligence, Innovation and Praxis: The National Biennial Conference of the Spatial Science Institute.
    Page numbers: 311-320
    Publisher: Spatial Sciences Institute(Melbourne)
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  • Reconstruction of Scenes From Geo-Referenced Web Resources
    Year: 2005
    Event name: SSC 2005 Spatial Intelligence, Innovation and Praxis: The National Biennial Conference of the Spatial Science Institute.
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of SSC 2005 Spatial Intelligence, Innovation and Praxis: The National Biennial Conference of the Spatial Science Institute.
    Page numbers: 523-531
    Publisher: Spatial Sciences Institute(Melbourne)
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  • Shared Ride Trips in Large Transportation Networks
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Symposium on Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access
    Conference Publication: Symposium on Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access
    Publisher: Department of Geography, University of Utah(Salt Lake City)
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    URL - open access http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00001061/
  • Shared Ride Trips with Geosensor Networks
    Year: 2005
    Event name: GI-Days 2005
    Conference Publication: Geosensornetzwerke - von der Forschung zur praktischen Anwendung
    Page numbers: 135-146
    Publisher: Verlag Natur & Wissenschaft(Solingen)
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    URL - open access http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00001037/
  • Structural salience of landmarks for route directions
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Spatial Information Theory. International Conference, COSIT 2005
    Conference Publication: Spatial Information Theory. International Conference, COSIT 2005.
    Volume: LNCS 3639
    Page numbers: 347-362
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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  • Summarizing GPS trajectories by salient patterns
    Year: 2005
    Event name: AGIT 2005
    Conference Publication: Angewandte Geoinformatik 2005
    Volume: XV
    Issue: 823
    Page numbers: 11-20
    Publisher: Wichmann Verlag(Heidelberg)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Selection of Salient Features for Route Directions


    Year: 2004
    Journal: Spatial Cognition and Computation
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 113-136
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  • Communication about Space
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Transactions in GIS
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 291-296
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Shifting the Focus in Mobile Maps
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Ubiquitous, Pervasive, and Internet Mapping (UPIMAP) 2004
    Conference Publication: UPIMap 2004
    Page numbers: 153-165
    Publisher: International Cartographic Association(Tokyo)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Route Adaptive Selection of Salient Features


    Year: 2003
    Book: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
    Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg(Heidelberg)
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  • Web Mapping a la Cuisine


    Year: 2003
    Book: Proceedings of Angewandte Geographische Informationsverarbeitung XV
    Publisher: Wichmann Verlag(Heidelberg)
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Journal Articles

  • Formal Information Modeling for Standardisation in the Spatial Domain
    Year: 2003
    Journal: International Journal of Geographical Information Science
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 721-741
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Enriching Wayfinding Instructions with Local Landmarks


    Year: 2002
    Book: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
    Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg(Heidelberg)
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  • Hierarchical Topological Reasoning with Vague Regions


    Year: 2002
    Book: Spatial Data Quality
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd(London)
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  • Route Specifications with a Linear Dual Graph


    Year: 2002
    Book: Advances in Spatial Data Handling
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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Journal Articles

  • Modeling Costs of Turns in Route Planning


    Year: 2002
    Journal: Geoinformatica
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 345-361
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Neighborhood Relations Between Fields with Applications to Cellular Networks


    Year: 2001
    Journal: Geoinformatica
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 127-144
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Weighting the Path Continuation in Route Planning
    Year: 2001
    Event name: 9th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
    Page numbers: 173-176
    Publisher: ACM Press(New York)
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