Meeting wiht PhD Advisor (May 2006)

I have presented my first “naive” models of spatial uncertainty in the context of ubicomp. There have been considered as a starting framework. While I should consolidate them, he mentioned that I should now provide a point of view. A simple one to start would be “what can we improve?”. This is probably the point of view I will take with the context of CatchBob! to submit a poster to UbiComp 2006.

Uncertainty induced by human interaction is not in the context of my work. Therefore he advised to mention in my model the excluded elements and, if the model gets too sterile, reintegrating them. I still need to take a stand on whether I should take into consideration a shared representation of location (i.e. location awareness in collaborative setting) or focus on the individual. A natural process for me would be to start focusing my models on the individuals and then enrich them with a collaboration perspective.

Starting from the model on location representation, I could investigate the dynamic of the interaction of the users with the representations and the space in the context of uncertainty. I never considered the ideas of evolution and dynamism.

He came up with the concept of “unavoidable errors” from numerical analysis and its inherence in computing.