Chao Li - Research

<BODY BACKGROUND="images/bkground1.jpg"> <P><BR> <FONT FACE="Arial" COLOR="#800000" SIZE="+2"><I><B>Research</B></I></FONT><I><BR> </I></P> <P><FONT FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000">Research Interests:<BR> <BR><FONT SIZE="-1"><IMG SRC="images/blueball.gif" WIDTH="14" HEIGHT="14"> GIS<BR> <IMG SRC="images/blueball.gif" WIDTH="14" HEIGHT="14"> Spatial information usage in mobile contexts<BR> <IMG SRC="images/blueball.gif" WIDTH="14" HEIGHT="14"> Urban wayfinding, spatial cognition<BR> <IMG SRC="images/blueball.gif" WIDTH="14" HEIGHT="14"> Location-Based Services<BR> <IMG SRC="images/blueball.gif" WIDTH="14" HEIGHT="14"> Virtual environments<BR> <IMG SRC="images/blueball.gif" WIDTH="14" HEIGHT="14"> Technology mediated geographies<BR> <IMG SRC="images/blueball.gif" WIDTH="14" HEIGHT="14"> Spatial data preparation and integration</FONT></FONT></P> <P><IMG SRC="images/density3d-Li.jpg" WIDTH="450" HEIGHT="322"><BR> <BR><FONT FACE="Arial" COLOR="#000000"><B>Recent publications:</B><BR> <BR><FONT SIZE="-1">2007, <I>Location-Based Services and Geo-Information Engineering.</I> (Brimicombe, A.J. & Li, C.). Wiley, Chichester. (forthcoming) <A HREF="ab-LBSbook.htm" TARGET="MainFrame"><IMG SRC="images/abstract.gif" ALT="abstract" ALIGN="ABSBOTTOM" WIDTH="60" HEIGHT="20" BORDER="0"></A><BR> <BR> 2006, The UK geography of the E-Society: A national classification. (Longley, P., Webber, R., Li, C.) <I>Environment and Planning A</I> (in Press) <A HREF="ab-epa1.htm" TARGET="MainFrame"><IMG SRC="images/abstract.gif" ALT="abstract" ALIGN="ABSBOTTOM" WIDTH="60" HEIGHT="20" BORDER="0"></A><BR> <BR> 2006, User preferences, information transactions and Location-Based Services: a study of urban pedestrian wayfinding. (Li, C.) <I>Computer Environment and Urban Systems</I>. 30(6): 726-740. <A HREF="ab-CEUS.htm" TARGET="MainFrame"><IMG SRC="images/abstract.gif" ALT="abstract" ALIGN="ABSBOTTOM" WIDTH="60" HEIGHT="20" BORDER="0"></A><BR> <BR> 2006, A Test Environment for Location-Based Services Applications. (Li, C. & Longley, P.) <I>Transactions in GIS</I> 10(1): 43-61. <A HREF="ab-TGISv10p43.htm" TARGET="MainFrame"><IMG SRC="images/abstract.gif" ALT="abstract" ALIGN="ABSBOTTOM" WIDTH="60" HEIGHT="20" BORDER="0"></A><BR> <BR>2006, Geodemographic classifications, the digital divide and understanding customer uptake of new technologies. (Longley, P., Ashby, D., Webber, R. and Li, C.) <I>BT Technology Journal</I> 24(3): 67-74. <A HREF="ab-bttj.htm" TARGET="MainFrame"><IMG SRC="images/abstract.gif" ALT="abstract" ALIGN="ABSBOTTOM" WIDTH="60" HEIGHT="20" BORDER="0"></A><BR> <BR> 2004, The impact and penetration of Location-Based Services. (Shiode, N., Li, C., Batty, M., Longley, P. & Maguire, D.) In <I>Telegeoinformatics: Location-Based Computing and Services.</I> (eds. Karimi & Hammad), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL: 349-366. <A HREF="ab-telecom.htm" TARGET="MainFrame"><IMG SRC="images/abstract.gif" ALT="abstract" ALIGN="ABSBOTTOM" WIDTH="60" HEIGHT="20" BORDER="0"></A><BR> <BR> 2003, The handheld revolution: towards ubiquitous GIS. (Li, C. & Maguire, D.) In <I>Advanced Spatial Analysis: The CASA book of GIS </I>(eds. Longley & Batty), ESRI Press, Redlands, CA: 193-210. <A HREF="ab-casabk.htm" TARGET="MainFrame"><IMG SRC="images/abstract.gif" ALT="abstract" ALIGN="ABSBOTTOM" WIDTH="60" HEIGHT="20" BORDER="0"></A><BR> <BR></FONT><B>Conference papers</B>:<BR> <BR><FONT SIZE="-1">2006, Modeling Context Aware Interaction for Wayfinding using Mobile Devices. (Li, C. and Willis, K.) <I>Proceedings of the Mobile HCI06</I>, pp97-100. <A HREF="ab-mHCI06.htm" TARGET="MainFrame"><IMG SRC="images/abstract.gif" ALT="abstract" ALIGN="ABSBOTTOM" WIDTH="60" HEIGHT="20" BORDER="0"></A><BR> <BR> 2006, Dynamic Aspects of Interaction in Wayfinding Tasks. (Li, C. and Willis, K.) <I>Spatial Cognition 2006</I>, Bremen, Germany<BR> <BR> 2006, Understanding Spatial Information Usage in a Mobile Context. (Li, C.) <I>Proceedings of the GISRUK06,</I> pp157-161. <A HREF="ab-gisruk06.htm" TARGET="MainFrame"><IMG SRC="images/abstract.gif" ALT="abstract" ALIGN="ABSBOTTOM" WIDTH="60" HEIGHT="20" BORDER="0"></A><BR> <BR> 2005, Urban Wayfinding Using Mobile Technologies. (Li, C.) CUPUM05, London. <A HREF="ab-cupum05.htm" TARGET="MainFrame"><IMG SRC="images/abstract.gif" ALT="abstract" ALIGN="ABSBOTTOM" WIDTH="60" HEIGHT="20" BORDER="0"></A><BR> <BR> 2004, GIS and Geodemographics: a national classification of ICT usages. (Li, C, Longley, P., Webber, R., Farr, M.) <I>Proceedings of the GISRUK04,</I> pp223-225. <A HREF="ab-gisruk04.htm" TARGET="MainFrame"><IMG SRC="images/abstract.gif" ALT="abstract" ALIGN="ABSBOTTOM" WIDTH="60" HEIGHT="20" BORDER="0"></A><BR> <BR>2004, GIS and cyberspace: virtual London and the e-society. Envisioning cyber-geospace and spatially enabled e-government: <I>Proceedings of the 8th International Seminar on GIS</I>. Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements: 93-105 (P A Longley, M Batty, M. de Smith, S. Evans, M Farr, A Hudson-Smith, C Li, A Slingsby, R Webber). <BR><BR> 2003, EURESCO conference, Germany, Research into Mobile Wayfinding Services Using Immersive Virtual Reality.<BR> <BR></FONT><B>Theses:</B><BR> <BR><FONT SIZE="-1">PhD: Urban Wayfinding using Mobile Devices: an investigation of spatial information transactions and interaction. (University College London) <A HREF="ab-phd.htm" TARGET="MainFrame"><IMG SRC="images/abstract.gif" ALT="abstract" ALIGN="ABSBOTTOM" WIDTH="60" HEIGHT="20" BORDER="0"></A><BR> <BR> MSc: An Exploratory Study of Generalisation of GIS Data Layers using Object-Oriented Modelling. (University College London) <A HREF="ab-msc.htm" TARGET="MainFrame"><IMG SRC="images/abstract.gif" ALT="abstract" ALIGN="ABSBOTTOM" WIDTH="60" HEIGHT="20" BORDER="0"></A><BR> <BR> Masters in Engineering: A microprocessor-controlled laser alignment system as applied in engineering survey (Tsinghua University, China) <BR> <BR></FONT></FONT></P> </BODY>