David Mountain
Senior Visiting Fellow in GI Science
David is a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Information Science. His research interests include location-based services, mobile search, modelling movement behaviour, visualization, virtual and augmented reality environments, and many other topics within the fields of mobile computing and GI science. David now works full-time on projects outside City University, predominantly as Technical Director of the tech startup company, Placr and the consultancy Where Consulting.
Recent publications
- Mountain DM (in press) From Location-Based Services to Location-Based Learning: Challenges and Opportunities for Higher Education. In Teaching Geographic Information Science and Technology in Higher Education (Eds, Unwin D, Tate N, Foote K & Dibiase D). Wiley.
- Mountain DM (2011) The dimensions of context and its role in mobile information retrieval. SIGSPATIAL Special, 3(2), 71-77
- Mountain DM, Myrhaug HI and Goker A (2009) Mobile search. In Information Retrieval: Searching in the 21st Century (Eds, Goker A, Graham M and Davies J) London, Wiley.
- Brown D Mountain D & Wood J (2009) Automated and Subjective Terrain Feature Extraction: A Comparative Analysis. GIS Research UK, University of Durham, UK. 1-3 Apr 2009.
- Jurisch A and Mountain DM (2008) Evaluating the Viability of Pictometry Imagery for Creating Models of the Built Environment. In Gervasi O and Gavrilova ML (Eds.), Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2008. Perugia, Italy, June 30 - July 3, 2008, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.
- Mason AE, Mountain DM and Raper J (2008) Surveying by motion tracking: the application of GIS, camera tracking and animation software to model 3D subterranean landscape from video imagery. GIS Research UK, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2-4 Apr 2008.
- Mountain DM and MacFarlane A (2007) Geographic information retrieval in a mobile environment: evaluating the needs of mobile individuals. Journal of Information Science 33(5).
- Mountain DM and Liarokapis F (2007) Mixed reality (MR) interfaces for mobile information systems. ASLIB Proceedings, 59 (4/5), 422-436.
Useful Links
- My publications
- The giCentre at City
- Placr
- First Location Bank - Placr spin out from the MetaPos project
- School Browser: Placr web app for exploring school performance league tables
- Where Consulting
- MOVE project
- Dagstuhl Representation, Analysis and Visualization of Moving Objects Seminar
- London Tube Dashboard
- UK Travel Options: mobile app for live travel information