Stephan Winter

Biographic Data

ID132488
NAMEStephan Winter
GIVEN NAMESStephan
FAMILY NAMEWinter
SIGNATUREWINTER S
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Melbourne
ORCID0000-0003-1371-0370
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS43
TOTAL CITATIONS79
WORKS AS AUTHOR43
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6

  • A CityGML extension for 3D modeling of pedestrian mobility space

    Open AccessBahram Saeidian, Ehsan Hamzei et al.ARTICLECities2026

    This paper presents a conceptual model of pedestrian mobility spaces in 3D city models. While conceptual models can be specified in various ways, we use standard elements of CityGML and an Application Domain Extension (ADE): The Pedestrian ADE extends CityGML 3.0 to incorporate key parameters related to the physical, legal, and regulatory aspects of pedestrian mobility environments. For this, the extension introduces new feature classes for verti…

  • Dealing With Uncertain Futures

    Open AccessSigne E Filler, Berend Barkela et al.ARTICLEScience Communication2026References: 5

    This article systematically reviews research on public engagement with models of future developments, such as pandemic forecasting or climate change projections. It examines how different actors and stakeholders interpret (often motivated) and communicate (often strategically) scientific uncertainties. So far, lay decision-makers have been studied mostly as receivers. They can handle uncertainty best when expressed in numbers, such as probabiliti…

  • The influence of threat and right-wing authoritarianism on the selection of online (dis)information—a conceptual replication and extension of Lavine et al. (2005)

    Open AccessLea‐Johanna Klebba, Stephan WinterARTICLEHuman Communication Research2025

    Over the decades, communication research has investigated the situational and personal conditions under which people particularly prefer attitude-consistent over attitude-inconsistent content (confirmation bias). In a central study, Lavine et al. (2005) [Lavine, H., Lodge, M., & Freitas, K. (2005). Authoritarianism, threat, and motivated reasoning. Political Psychology, 26(2), 219–244.] examined how right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and threat ca…

  • Strong Foundations and Forward-Thinking in Turbulent Times

    Drew P Cingel, Drew Cingel et al.ARTICLEMedia Psychology2025

  • Melbourne’s parking dynamics and traffic flow

    Open AccessHamid Bagha, Farhana Choudhury et al.ARTICLETransportation2025

  • Liturgical Order, Cultura Dei and the Normative Function of Ritual Power

    Open AccessStephan WinterARTICLEOxford Journal of Law and Religion2024

    This article examines the coronation ritual of King Charles III as an aspect of the cultura Dei using Jürgen Bolten’s cultural theory, particularly his concept of ‘fuzzy culture’. The coronation shows how the normative force of the cultura Dei can be used to promote religious pluralism beyond the Judeo-Christian traditions of the Church of England. Using the concept of cultura Dei, as discussed by Bolten, frames the discussion of the coronation a…

  • A matter of trust? Analyzing the relationship between attitudes toward Covid‐19 countermeasures and right‐wing ideology in Germany

    Open AccessLea‐Johanna Klebba, Stephan WinterARTICLEAnalyses of Social Issues and…2024

    The COVID‐19 pandemic has divided societies, especially regarding vaccine mandates. While research suggests that political ideology plays a crucial role in whether people support or oppose COVID‐19 countermeasures, the relationship between these attitudes and political ideology remains unclear, with varying results across different countries. The present research focuses on right‐wing authoritarianism (RWA) in Germany, examining its role as a pre…

  • Strategic allocation of landmarks to reduce uncertainty in indoor navigation

    Open AccessReza Arabsheibani, Jan‐Henrik Haunert et al.ARTICLEComputers Environment and Urban…2024

    Indoor navigation systems often rely on verbal, turn-based route instructions. These can, at times, be ambiguous at complex decision points with multiple paths intersecting under angles that are not well distinguished by the turn grammar used. Landmarks can be included into turn instructions to reduce this ambiguity. Here, we propose an approach to optimize landmark allocation to improve the clarity of route instructions. This study assumes that …

  • Indoor view graph

    Open AccessEhsan Hamzei, Laure De Cock et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning B Urban…2024

    This paper presents a graph model that simultaneously stores route and configurational information about indoor spaces. Existing indoor information models either capture route information to compute shortest paths and to generate route descriptions (i.e., answering how-to-get-to questions), or they store configurational information about objects and places and their spatial relationships to enable spatial querying and inference (i.e., answering w…

  • Cognitive mapping of indoor environments

    Zhicheng Zhan, Haosheng Huang et al.ARTICLECartography and Geographic…2024References: 2

    Indoor navigation networks provide an effective solution for modeling indoor environments for navigational purposes. In comparison to pure geometric structures, network structures that are aligned with the user's cognitive map are perceived as more intuitive. However, there has been limited research conducted on constructing indoor navigation networks that align with user's cognitive maps. Human route descriptions contain valuable insights into h…

  • Automatic translation of human route descriptions into schematic maps for indoor navigation

    Alper Şen, Zhicheng Zhan et al.ARTICLECartography and Geographic…2024References: 2

    People create route descriptions based on their mental maps to provide route guidance, which represents their knowledge of the environment. Recent studies have attempted to model navigation knowledge from human route descriptions to facilitate route communication. However, they mainly focus on outdoor environments and do not address the representation of human descriptions of indoors in the form of schematic maps through the automatic extraction …

  • Moral Comments in Social Media

    Open AccessVanessa Hirschhäuser, Stephan WinterARTICLEMass Communication & Society2024Cited by: 1References: 7

  • Biographically Anchored Liturgies as a Starting Point for Liturgical Formation

    Open AccessStephan Winter, Lisa KühnARTICLEReligions2024References: 5

    The liturgical professional development project for pastoral workers and clergy in the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart has been developed in collaboration with the Department of Liturgical Studies at the University of Tübingen. The concept of biographical learning is the innovative element that explores a new type of liturgical formation (Bildung) where the learning content explores the participant's unique biography of learning, faith developmen…

  • Granularity of origins and clustering destinations in indoor wayfinding

    Open AccessKimia Amoozandeh, Stephan Winter et al.ARTICLEComputers Environment and Urban…2023

  • Forecasting fine-grained sensing coverage in opportunistic vehicular sensing

    Open AccessWenyan Hu, Stephan Winter et al.ARTICLEComputers Environment and Urban…2023

  • Spatial Causality

    Open AccessKamal Akbari, Stephan Winter et al.ARTICLEGeographical Analysis2023

    The growing interest in causal inference in recent years has led to new causal inference methodologies and their applications across disciplines and research domains. Yet, studies on spatial causal inference are still rare. Causal inference on spatial processes is faced with additional challenges, such as spatial dependency, spatial heterogeneity, and spatial effects. These challenges can lead to spurious results and subsequently, incorrect inter…

  • Map-Matching Error Identification in the Absence of Ground Truth

    Open AccessSubhrasankha Dey, Martin Tomko et al.ARTICLEISPRS International Journal of…2022

    Map-matching of trajectory data has widespread applications in vehicle tracking, traffic flow analysis, route planning, and intelligent transportation systems. Map-matching algorithms snap a set of trajectory points observed by a satellite navigation system to the most likely route segments of a map. However, due to the unavoidable errors in the recorded trajectory points and the incomplete map data, map-matching algorithms may match points to in…

  • Space decomposition based on visible objects in an indoor environment

    Open AccessKimia Amoozandeh, Stephan Winter et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning B Urban…2022

    When a person moves, the set of objects in their visual range changes. Hence, the set of objects perceived from a specific range of locations may be considered as a signature (possibly non-unique) of this region and be used for the localization of this person. In the case of fixed objects, the number of regions with a set of specific visible objects is limited. A verbal description containing references to elements of this set of visible objects …

  • The effects of trait-based personalization in social media advertising

    Open AccessStephan Winter, Ewa Maslowska et al.ARTICLEComputers in Human Behavior2021

  • Exploring the viability of walk-sharing in outdoor urban spaces

    Open AccessDebjit Bhowmick, Stephan Winter et al.ARTICLEComputers Environment and Urban…2021

  • Opinionleaders

    Stephan Winter, German Neubaum et al.ARTICLEInformation Communication & Society2021

    Social media have become forums of discussions on political and societal debates in which individual users may forward information or influence others. While prior studies either employed network analyses or surveys to identify opinion leaders and their characteristics, the present investigation combines these two approaches to address the relationship between observable and self-perceived influence. For this purpose, a retweet network of Twitter…

  • Toward identifying the critical mass in spatial two-sided markets

    Open AccessZahra Navidi, Kai Nagel et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning B Urban…2020

    Unlike their nonspatial counterparts, spatial multi-sided platforms are matchmaking platforms with an additional layer of complexity: their customers expect to meet in space, not only virtually. This additional challenge will be studied in this paper in the context of a two-sided ride-sharing platform, which serves drivers and passengers. As with any two-sided platform, there is an interdependence between both groups of customers: More drivers ar…

  • Making sense of credibility in complex information environments

    Andrew J Flanagin, Stephan Winter et al.ARTICLEInformation Communication & Society2020

    An experiment using a representative sample of US. Internet users in the context of online encyclopedias is conducted to understand how the type of information source (expert-generated, user-generated, or hybrid [both expert- and user-generated]) and message sidedness (one- versus two-sided) affect perceived information credibility. Additionally, individual differences in cognitive styles, including need for cognition and flexible thinking, are h…

  • Social Norms and Selectivity

    Magdalena Wojcieszak, Stephan Winter et al.ARTICLEMass Communication & Society2020Cited by: 13References: 23

    Given the polarizing effects of exposure to like-minded political information and the alleged societal benefits of exposure to diverse and dissimilar perspectives, we examine how to promote the selection of balanced and counter-attitudinal political content, thereby minimizing affective polarization. Two online experiments on American partisans (N = 389 and N = 1378) tested the influence of social norms promoting open-mindedness. Study 1 focused …

  • Perception of Religious Brothers and Sisters and Lay Persons That Prayers Go Unanswered Is a Matter of Perceived Distance from God

    Open AccessArndt Büssing, Stephan Winter et al.ARTICLEReligions2020Cited by: 1References: 16

    Background: Sometimes prayer life can be difficult even for very religious persons, who may experience phases of "spiritual dryness", which may have a negative effect on their well-being. Methods: To address this topic, we analyzed three contrasting groups of persons (religious brothers and sisters (RBS), n = 273; Catholic lay persons (CLP), n = 716; other lay persons (OLP), n = 351) with standardized measures and investigated how often indicator…