I was one of the people who did these 'observations'.
We were told nothing on methodology -how do you count people over 5 minutes?
My counts had an error of about 18%, depending on whether you count for 5
minutes or 5 min 20 s (10 secs at beg & 10 sec at end). You can fit almost
anything you like to data with such high errors.
Rui
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Nick Dalton
> Sent: 09 March 2005 11:04
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Publically available standard test cases
>
>
> Don't forget the open observation exercise I held at the last space
> syntax conference.
>
> You can pick up the observation results at.
> http://www.thepurehands.org/massObs/
>
> more standard test sights and more standard observation information would
be
> very useful.
>
> sheep
>
>
>
> >For the Gassin maps on the VR website, I have actually spent a couple of
> >minutes to ask Julienne Hanson (who drew the maps) and CUP (who
> >published them) for permission to publish the digitised diagrams. Both
> >were happy for the maps to remain up for academic purposes.
> >
> >I hope this serves to encourage the use of a standard set of test cases
> >for space syntax. However, I would still like to see some observation
> >data made available. For example, within the artificial intelligence
> >community, the Anderson (1935) iris data has become a standard that is
> >freely distributed to test classification algorithms.
> >
> >Alasdair
> >
> >Rui Carvalho wrote:
> >
> >>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:15:53 +0000, Alasdair Turner <[log in to unmask]>
> >>wrote:
> >>
> >>>On vector maps: the maps on http://www.vr.ucl.ac.uk/research/axial are
> >>>high definition vectorised versions of the maps in the Social Logic of
> >>>Space. For Rui -- I am not sure whether these are supposed to be open
> >>>access or not given the copyright of Social Logic of Space rests with
> >>>CUP. (Also, sorry Bin, they don't include fig 25.)
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>Well, of course the copyright of those images rests with CUP.
> >>Strictly speaking, it seems that the VR centre is violating CUP's
> >>copyright by not stating that clearly -just joking!
> >>
> >>My point is that it is your job to negotiate with CUP to make these
images
> >>open access. The readers should be spared the red tape.
> >>
> >>Rui
> >>
> >>
> >>>Alasdair
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >--
> >Alasdair Turner
> >Lecturer in Architectural Computing
> >Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
> >UCL Gower Street LONDON WC1E 6BT
> >
> >Course Director: MSc Virtual Environments
> >MSc Adaptive Architecture and Computation
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