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CALL FOR PAPERS

Springer - GeoInformatica
Special Issue on
Map Interaction

https://www.springer.com/?SGWID=0-102-2-1465748-preview&dynamic=true

Submission Deadline: 28 February 2016


Spatial information has become the backbone of countless applications,
services, and research endeavors at various scales. We use spatial
information to find our ways outdoors and indoors, to identify
locations, to
reason about spatial relations, to analyze the environment, to plan
buildings and land use, to create the infrastructures and services of
smart cities of the future, or to realize autonomous vehicles. The
ubiquitous availability of spatial information enables exciting
possibilities but also creates important challenges across all
domains: How can we efficiently make use of spatial data? How can we
identify information that really matters, e.g. during wayfinding in
indoor and outdoor environments? How can we understand spatial
relationships? How can we enable a broad range of people to easily
specify complex spatial queries? How can we ensure that buildings are
correctly specified?

In many cases, users directly or indirectly interact with (complex)
spatial information to achieve their goals in different domains and in
various contexts such as decision‐making, location‐based services or
GIS. Consequently, well‐designed interactions with spatial data are a
key step towards obtaining meaningful answers to the questions and
problems that arise in these contexts. If the interaction is intuitive
and efficient, spatial interfaces also become enjoyable in addition to
being reliable tools.

The purpose of this special is to solicit high quality research papers
that advance the state of the art in interacting with maps and
geospatial information in general. We invite submission reporting on
original research addressing topics including but not limited to:
- Map Interaction
- Spatial User Interfaces and Interaction Techniques
- Human‐Computer Interaction with Spatial Information and Representations
- Interactive Spatial Visual Analytics
- Spatial Visualization Techniques
- Multi‐modal Spatial Interfaces
- Tangible Interfaces for Spatial Information
- Interaction Design for Small, Large, Shared or Ambient Displays
- Algorithms for Interactive and Dynamic Maps
- Multi‐user Interaction, Cooperation, Collaboration

The list of topics above is indicative – further topics are welcome if
they clearly relate to interaction with spatial information. We are
explicitly looking for submissions from diverse domains and
disciplines including (but not limited to):
- Cartography
- Location‐Based Services
- Geography
- Architecture
- Smart Cities
- Health
- Disaster Management
- Volunteered Geographic Information/Crowdsourcing

All papers will undergo the same rigorous GEIN review process. Please
refer to the GEIN website for detailed instructions on paper
submission. Please choose “Special Issue: Map Interaction” as the
Article Type.


Schedule
Paper Submission: 28 February 2016
Acceptance Notification: 7 April 2016
Final Paper Submission: 29 April 2016


Guest Editors
Dr.‐Ing. Christian Kray, Institute for Geoinformatics, University of
Münster, Germany
   (c.kray@uni‐muenster.de)
Dr. Falko Schmid, GuidingPeople, Bremen, Germany
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Holger Fritze, Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster, Germany
   (h.fritze@uni‐muenster.de)


Paper Submission
Authors are encouraged to submit high quality, original work that has
neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals.
All open submissions will be peer reviewed subject to the standards of
the journal. Manuscripts based on previously published conference
papers must be extended substantially. Springer offers authors,
editors and reviewers of GeoInformatica a web-enabled online
manuscript submission and review system. Our online system offers
authors the ability to track the review process of their manuscript.
Manuscripts should be submitted to: http://gein.edmgr.com. This online
system offers easy and straightforward log-in and submission
procedures, and supports a wide range of submission file formats.


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Holger Fritze
Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi), University of Muenster, Germany
Situated Computing and Interaction Lab (sitcom),
http://sitcom.uni-muenster.de/