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The D-scent Project
Background Police and security services will benefit from new research aimed at improving the investigation of criminal and terrorist activity. The d-scent project aims to develop techniques that combine technologies for geographical positioning and analysing communication signals with forensic psychology techniques for detecting deception during interviews with suspects.
The Experiment
Researchers will investigate whether deception can be identified from suspects' movements, communications and behaviours. The experimental lab is a location based game, challenging players to construct the olympic opening ceremony whilst cutting corners - however there are terrorist cells also masquerading as workers.
Researchers will push the boundaries of both tracking and lbs technology in this framework, with data analysis providing
the basis for post-game police interrogations. Interactions will be studied by psychologists and analysed by data-mining
specialists to determine where the team participants are applying deception or where the account of their activities is true.
The Role of CGSCGS is developing the framework for the live d-scent experiments, with the game board being the university of nottingham's main campus. Initial Control Room Software has already been developed.
CGS is pushing positioning technologies via geospatial intelligence - specifically using map matching and novel dead reckoning techniques. A novel, ubiquitous delivery framework, gWeb has also been developed as part of this research, which now underpins the University's Geospatial Learning Initiative (GLI). Establishing a metadata infrastructure for the game features over the physical landscape - shops, sites and players has led to the development of the Reality Markup Platform (RAMP), which is now being extended into a cross-campus metadata framework. Project Partners:
- Geospatial Science - CGS, University of Nottingham
- Software Engineering - CS, University of Nottingham
- Forensic Psychology - Psychology, University of Leicester
- Comms Analysis - CS, St. Andrews
- Data Mining - CS, Leeds Metropolitan
This EPSRC funded project is led at CGS by Dr. James Goulding.
Research Areas:
• Geoinformatics & Data Modelling
• Geospatial Intelligence
• Interoperability & Standards
• Location Based Services
• Semantics & Reasoning
CGS Initiatives:
• The Persistent Test Bed
• Geospatial Learning Initiative
• Reality Markup Project
Funded Projects:
• GIS4EU
• D-scent
• Map Schematization
• OS "Future Data"
• Disaster Management
• GIGAS Interoperability
• The e-soter Platform
• SWIMA
• Eye Tracking