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With the increasing use of the Internet for getting information, transacting business and interacting with people, a wide range of activities in everyday life can now be undertaken in cyberspace. As traditional models of accessibility are based on physical notions of distance and proximity, they are inadequate for conceptualizing or analyzing individual accessibility in the physical world and cyberspace (hereafter referred to as hybrid-accessibility). To address the need for new models of space and time that enable us to represent individual accessibility in the information age, there are at least three major research areas: (a) the conceptual and/or behavioral foundation of individual accessibility; (b) appropriate methods for representing accessibility; and (c) feasible operational measures for evaluating individual accessibility. With the recent development and application of GIS methods in the study of accessibility in the physical world (e.g., Forer 1998, Hanson, Kominiak, and Carlin 1997, Huisman and Forer 1998, Kwan 1998, 1999a, 1999b, Miller 1991, 1999, Scott 1999, Talen 1997, Talen and Anselin 1998), it is apparent that GIS have considerable potential in each of these research areas. As shown in some of these studies, a focus on the individual enabled by GIS methods also reveals the spatial-temporal complexity in individual activity patterns and accessibility through 3D visualization or computational procedures.
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Kwan, MP. (2000). Human Extensibility and Individual Hybrid-accessibility in Space-time: A Multi-scale Representation Using GIS. In: Janelle, D.G., Hodge, D.C. (eds) Information, Place, and Cyberspace. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04027-0_14
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