An RT Component for Simulating People Movement in Public Space and its Application to Robot Motion Planner Development

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsushi Shigemura ◽  
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Yuki Ishikawa ◽  
Jun Miura ◽  
Junji Satake
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Robot Motion ◽  
Software Module ◽  
Simulation Experiments ◽  
Global Movement ◽  
Local Movement ◽  
Simulation Algorithms ◽  
People Movement ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
A Current

This paper describes a software module for simulating “people movement” in public space such as shopping centers and cafeterias. We decompose people movement into global and local, and make a model of each of them. Global movement corresponds to following a route from a current position to a destination. In local movement, a person moves toward the next subgoal while avoiding surrounding persons and obstacles. We also model behavior specific to a cafeteria, such as queuing and searching for unoccupied seats. We implement these simulation algorithms in a simulator RT component, that can be used easily for development of robot motion planners, which are also realized as RT components. Various simulation experiments show the effectiveness of the simulation algorithms and the simulator RT component.

Becoming Present, Becoming Absent: Movement and Visual Form in the Film Adaptation of Comédie

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-180
Author(s):  
David Foster
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
Visual Form ◽  
Sergei Eisenstein ◽  
Basic Framework ◽  
Global Movement ◽  
Local Movement

This article examines the use of movement and visual form in the film adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Comédie (Marin Karmitz, 1966). The article broaches the kinetic elements of the work through addressing the manner in which the diegetic motion of the film can be seen to reflect extra-diegetic cinematic processes. The sense of movement that is created through Comédie's montage is then considered at length, making use of work on this theme by two quite different (though tangentially related) theorists: Sergei Eisenstein and Jean-François Lyotard. The article then charts the film's different manifestations of formal movement, and a basic framework is proposed to explain the manner in which the film creates moments of intensity, through what is termed the ‘local movement’ of the montage, and the manner in which the film manifests an overall curve of intensity, through what is termed the montage's ‘global movement’. It is argued that each form of montagic motion is reflected in the other, and that ultimately these movements might be seen to dramatise a human drive towards, and a concomitant flight from, an impossible state of ontological totality.

Between Global and Local Contexts: The Seoul Linguistic Landscape

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kapitolina Fedorova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Historical Sites ◽  
The One ◽  
Global And Local

Multilingualism in urban spaces is mainly studied as an oral practice. Nevertheless, linguistic landscape studies can serve as a good explorative method for studying multilingualism in written practices. Moreover, resent research on linguistic landscapes (Blommaert 2013; Shohamy et. al. 2010; Backhaus 2006) have shed some light on the power relations between different ethnic groups in urban public space. Multilingual practices exist in a certain ideological context, and not only official language policy but speaker linguistic stereotypes and attitudes can influence and modify those practices. Historically, South Korea tended to be oriented towards monolingualism; one nation-one people-one language ideology was domineering public discourse. However, globalization and recent increase in migration resulted in gradual changes in attitudes towards multilingualism (Lo and Kim 2012). The linguistic landscapes of Seoul, on the one hand, reflect these changes, and However, they demonstrates pragmatic inequality of languages other than South Korean in public use. This inequality, though, is represented differently in certain spatial urban contexts. The proposed paper aims at analyzing data on linguistic landscapes of Seoul, South Korea ,with the focus on different contexts of language use and different sets of norms and ideological constructs underlying particular linguistic choices. In my presentation I will examine data from three urban contexts: ‘general’ (typical for most public spaces); ‘foreign-oriented’ (seen in tourist oriented locations such as airport, expensive hotels, or popular historical sites, which dominates the Itaewon district); and ‘ethnic-oriented’ (specific for spaces created by and for ethnic minority groups, such as Mongolian / Central Asian / Russian districts near the Dongdaemun History and Culture Park station). I will show that foreign languages used in public written communication are embedded into different frameworks in these three urban contexts, and that the patterns of their use vary from pragmatically oriented ones to predominately symbolic ones, with English functioning as a substitution for other foreign languages, as an emblem of ‘foreignness.’

Iranian Jews and Israel

2018 ◽  
pp. 63-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lior B. Sternfeld
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Jewish Intellectual ◽  
Indigenous Movement ◽  
Global Movement ◽  
Local Movement ◽  
Intellectual Elites ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the roots and effects of Zionism in Iran. It analyzes Zionism first as an indigenous movement that emerged in Iran as a response to the needs of Iranian Jews (with relation to the global movement of Zionism) and transformed itself as the needs of Iranian Jews changed in the course of the century. After 1948 and the establishment of Israel, Zionism could no longer be taken as a local movement alone. The contact with Israel and Israeli emissaries and the impact of state-sponsored Zionist activities ignited a new set of emotions and means of identification with or antagonism to Zionism, as well as a whole range of reactions in between. This chapter examines the way Israel dealt with the case of Iranian Jews, which was atypical compared with other Middle Eastern communities. In addition, this chapter examines the responses to Zionism among the non-Jewish intellectual elites in Iran.

scholarly journals SPATIAL SYNTAX AS A TOOL FOR STUDYING THE STRUCTURE AND CONFIGURATION OF PUBLIC SPACES

2021 ◽  
pp. 195-204
Author(s):  
Olena Oliynyk
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Behavioral Characteristics ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Spatial Design ◽  
Relative Characteristic ◽  
People Movement ◽  
Trafalgar Square ◽  
The Impact

The author presents the theory of spatial syntax, which is a key tool for under-standing of the structure of public space and its configuration. Spatial decisions are determining factors influencing to the behavioral characteristics of people who use public space. The author traces the use of spatial syntax as a tool for choosing a de-sign solution for the reconstruction of Trafalgar Square in London. The main interest of spatial syntax is finding the relationship between human needs and spaces. It is believed that behavioral characteristics are already embedded in the structure of spa-tial systems. Spatial syntax calls this relative characteristic of space as a configura-tion and offers the idea that it is this characteristic that shapes human behavior and thus contains social knowledge. Bill Hiller described the method of analysis of the existing scheme of use of the space of Trafalgar Square and around it, which was taken into account later by the authors of the reconstruction project. The perfect spatial design was to contain three key elements: simple, straight routes for pedestrians, which should cross the space in the middle, not at its edges; the presence of points of perception in several visual areas; availability of facilities for eating, drinking or recreation, located near the main walking routes. The analysis of Trafalgar Square showed that none of these elements was pre-sent in the decision of the square. Spatial analysis helped to find optimal design solu-tions. Spatial analysis of Trafalgar Square has shown that, although the effects of people movement are important, but not as much as the impact of space configura-tion. As the analysis of the design solution of the public space of Trafalgar Square confirms, a successful project means, first of all, reasonable spatial solutions. 

Spatial practices and narratives

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 732-754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Óscar García Agustín ◽  
Félix J. Aguirre Díaz
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Fictional Narrative ◽  
Santiago De Chile ◽  
The Social ◽  
Global Movement

The Chilean students’ rebellion emerged in 2011 within the wave of global protests. Even though it is an organized movement, with roots in a specific historical context, it shares with the global movement the use of new media technologies, the appropriation of public spaces, and the concern for democracy and equality. The movement deploys flexible forms of organization and mobilization such as flash mobs, in the case analyzed in this article, the GenkiDama for Education. The students create a narrative based on the famous Manga series Dragon Ball Z to reframe the conflict between students and government. As Manga fans, they open up participation to other less politically defined identities. The flash mob moment works as a communicative event in which the narrative is put into place and strengthens a sense of community in the streets of Santiago de Chile. To analyze the connections between the fictional narrative of Manga and the use of the public space, we draw on Michel de Certeau’s theory on spatial practices and the function of stories and place/space. Spatial practices during the flash mob challenge the social and spatial order in order to represent a symbolic victory of the students over the political system.

A Culture of Affinity

2019 ◽  
pp. 157-183
Author(s):  
David M. Struthers
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
World War I ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
World War ◽  
Internal Conflicts ◽  
Ability To Act ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Movement ◽  
Local Movement ◽  
The Unemployed

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM), and unaffiliated anarchists and sympathizers contributed to a multicentered local movement in Los Angeles between 1911 and 1917. This chapter examines events in Wheatland, California; Rangel-Cline in Texas; Los Angeles’s 1913 Christmas riot; the Army of the Unemployed in Los Angeles; and a revolutionary plot in Arizona in 1915. Los Angeles also increased its importance as a publishing center for Spanish language radical newspapers in these years. Newspapers increased Los Angeles’s visibility and significance in the global movement. The local movement successfully weathered internal conflicts before World War I-era repression reshaped its ability to act and formulate its own terms of struggle.

Emerging Christianity in Cambodia: People Movement to Christ or Playground for Global Christianity?

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-289
Author(s):  
Tobias Brandner
Keyword(s):  
Growth Factors ◽  
Khmer Rouge ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Emerging Church ◽  
Global Citizens ◽  
Local Factors ◽  
Global Christianity ◽  
People Movement ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Faith Movement

Present-day Christianity in Cambodia is less than thirty years old; virtually all traces of its earlier history were eradicated by the Khmer Rouge. The article offers a portrait of this young church and introduces mission patterns, growth factors, and challenges for this emerging church. It critically discusses the entanglement of global and local factors, as well as the diversity of mission agents engaged in Cambodia. The article concludes that churches successfully present themselves as a training ground for emerging global citizens, attracting young people to a faith movement that connects them with a global network.

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