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FIGURE 4.9
Pedestrian agents exiting a room once a fire alarm has been activated.
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(b)
FIGURE 4.10
Examples of LBS. (a) Interface to SeeClickFix and (b) interface to Waze.
are passively contributed by users of the application. More active gestures include reporting the
locations of say police vehicles or road accidents, all of which are contributed by individual users.
Through such a specialised traffic-centric service, Waze provides users with highly valuable infor-
mation, which continues to improve as the number of users grows. The success of this approach has
led to the acquisition of Waze by Google in 2013 for over 1 billion US dollars.
