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Transforming Space into Place: Some Interactions in an Urban Plaza

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New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (JSAI-isAI 2012)

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This paper is concerned with relationships between space, place, and social interaction, exploring possibilities of moving from the analysis of the spatial organization of encounters and interacting ensembles to an understanding of how, in and through their interaction in a space, people transform it into a jointly experienced, meaningful, and memorable place. This exploration is conducted through the analysis of interactions of four different interacting units in a single space, the front of a church in a city in Colombia. They include a person talking on a cell-phone, a pair of children, a group of children, and a loving couple.

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  1. Dept. of Communication Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, A-1105, Austin, TX, 78712, USA

    Jürgen Streeck

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  1. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

    Yoichi Motomura

  2. Tohoku University, Kawauchi 41, 980-8576, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan

    Alastair Butler

  3. Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1 Bunkyo-ku, 122-8610, Tokyo, Japan

    Daisuke Bekki

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Streeck, J. (2013). Transforming Space into Place: Some Interactions in an Urban Plaza. In: Motomura, Y., Butler, A., Bekki, D. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI-isAI 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7856. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39931-2_16

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