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In her article published on Friday, November 16, 2018 in The Conversation, USC Spatial Sciences Institute Lecturer Jennifer Bernstein makes the case that “Yes, GPS apps make you worse at navigating – but that’s OK.”
Bernstein posits that people are less likely to remember a route when they use guided navigation. Without their device, regular GPS users take longer to negotiate a route, travel more slowly and make larger navigational errors. While physical navigation...

PHP Doctoral Student Douglas Fleming Wins Glovin Award
Douglas Fleming, a third-year student in the Population, Health and Place Ph.D. program, has been awarded The 2018 Irving and Jeanne Glovin Award.
Established by the Oskar Schindler Humanities Foundation, the Glovin Award fosters research into the meaning and underlying principles for “good human conduct.”  Through this award, the Oskar Schindler Foundation strives to stimulate scholarly work that...

Yao-Yi Chiang’s Spatial Computing Lab continues award-winning streak
On November 9, 2018, Yuanbin Cheng, a M.S. student in computer science on the Spatial Sciences Institute’s Spatial Computing team, took the third place award for student research competition at the 26th ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic...

Zhejiang Province Delegation Visits USC Spatial
On October 25, 2018, the USC Spatial Sciences Institute hosted a delegation of 24 Geographic Information Science (GIS) leaders visiting from Zhejiang, China, a province in Eastern China which has the historic city Hangzhou as its capital....