In-situ communication and labeling of places

Abstract. An increasing number of applications is based on the concept of personally meaningful places detected in individual trajectory data. This class of applications will only be accepted if the individual effort of labeling places is reduced to a minimum and the proposed place labels are meaningful. To allow for either the automatic generation of place concepts and corresponding labels, or the maintenance of a collaborative place database, we require better understanding of how people concep-tualize their familiar environments in-situ, thus while being in the place. In this paper we present the results of an in-situ place labeling study. Our results suggest that the harmonization of diverse labels for person-ally meaningful places is possible and the operators for the automatic computation of place names are seizable.