Thanks a lot, Alan for the info and clarity. Cheers. Bin Penn wrote: > Bin, > > that was an article in New Scientist: > Locating, locating, locating > * 29 November 2006 > * Kate Ravilious > * Magazine issue 2579 > > http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19225791.800-locating-loca > ting-locating.html > > A rather partial account of what I actually said to the journalist by the > way... she particularly wanted shopping to be Levy flight like. I said I > suspected that to be unlikely (only a hunch, no data) but my reason was too > involved for her to recount, so she implied that I agreed with her... gnash > teeth! :-) > > My paper on shopping on which this was based is: > > http://www.spacesyntax.tudelft.nl/media/Long%20papers%20I/alan%20penn.pdf > > Alan > > > >> Hi, I once read that paper, but failed to find it again. Could you >> anyone there give me some clue? That paper is about human movement >> behavior (but not quite sure on that). The author (some freelance >> writer) interviewed several experts, one of whom is Alan Penn. That >> article also cited one of Alan's master student work about IKEA's >> tracking patterns.... that article also mentioned random walk etc.. >> Alan, do you have any idea on that article? thanks. >> >> Cheers. >> >> Bin >> >> -- >> -------------------------------------------------------- >> Bin Jiang >> Division of Geomatics >> Dept. of Technology and Built Environment >> University of G$B|;(Ble, SE-801 76 G$B|;(Ble, Sweden >> Phone: +46-26-64 8901 Fax: +46-26-64 8828 >> Email: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.hig.se/~bjg/ >> -------------------------------------------------------- >> >> NordGISci: http://www.hig.se/~bjg/NordGISci/ >> NordGISci2007: http://www.hig.se/~bjg/NordGISci2007/ >> ICA Workshop: http://www.ggy.uga.edu/people/faculty/xyao/Workshop2007/ >> > >