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You Are Here 2:
2nd Workshop on Spatial Awareness and Geographic Knowledge
Acquisition with Small Mobile Devices
In conjunction with the International Conference on Spatial
Cognition 2010,
Mt. Hood / Portland, Oregon, August 15, 2010
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~schmid/yah2/
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1. The best papers of YAH2 will be invited to contribute to
a Special Issue hosted by JLBS (www.informaworld.com/jlbs
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2. We are very proud to announce two student travel
scholarships each worth 250€. Please visit our website for details http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~schmid/yah2/
You Are Here 2 in a Nutshell
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Deadline: Up to 12 pages until May 15th, 2010
Workshop Date: August 15th, 2010
Topics: Mobile Maps, Interaction with Maps, Spatial
Awareness, Geographic Knowledge Acquisition
Topic
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Geographic information is nowadays ubiquitously available:
Internet, car navigation systems, and various mobile devices have access to
geographic data. The visualization of and the interaction with this data
effects the cognitive processing of the information. It has been shown that
turn-by-turn instructions turn off the brains of users, prevent them from
learning the environment, and can be the cause of bizarre accidents.
Straightforward map visualizations and awkward interaction, on the other hand,
may not help and often lead to corrupted knowledge acquisition and
misinterpretation of the surrounding environment.
It is plausible to assume that when everyday access to and
usage of spatial information (e.g. wayfinding, searching, locating) finally
migrates to mobile devices, people will eventually never access survey
representations of their environment on large scale displays such as maps or
large screens.
However, it is representations, which communicate
configurational and contextual information of an environment, that most easily
allow for the establishment of correct and coherent mental representations
beyond sequences of turns or entities of vista spaces. Due to the inherent
richness, large-scale geographic information is not suitable for being
displayed on the small screens of mobile devices.
If we want to avoid life-long dependency on navigation
devices and foster adequate knowledge acquisition, we will have to develop new
and task specific visualizations and corresponding interaction primitives. They
will allow the efficient communication and manipulation of complex spatial
knowledge on multiple levels of granularity.
The development of visualizations of and interaction with
geographic information, especially with respect to communicating complex
configurations and to foster spatial knowledge acquisition is still rather
unexplored. Coupled with task specific interaction, that efficiently shortcuts
the inherent queries, we can expect the development of adequate representations
and interaction primitives: adequate for small displays, adequate to understand
spatial information, and adequate in retrieving answers for spatial queries.
Topics focus on but are not limited to:
• Novel information visualization algorithms for
geographic information
• Novel task specific interaction primitives or query
summaries
• Ingredients to create spatial awareness
• Small display cartography
• Large maps versus small multiples
• How is map information integrated across different
levels of granularity/scales
• Map gestures and other summary graphics
• Ontology guided map schematization
• YAH maps in the light of new information technology
• Social aspects of spatial awareness
• The influence of visual clutter; why presenting more
information does not mean a better understanding of places
• Advising schematization algorithms for small scale
displays
• Individual differences and familiarity
• Measures and empirical results for spatial awareness
and interaction usability
Workshop Keynote Speakers
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Colin Ellard, http://www.colinellard.com/
Dan Montello, http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~montello/
Important Dates
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• Submission until May 15th, 2010
• Notification of acceptance from Jun 15th, 2010
• Camera-ready papers due to July 15th, 2010
• Workshop on August 15th, 2010
Submission Details
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Please submit up to 12 pages (in Springer LNCS format as
PDF) via the EasyChair conference system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=yah2
Submissions can be position statements, work in progress, or
completed work. All submissions will be reviewed by the committee. Accepted
papers will be given 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion
at the workshop.
Organizers
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Stephen C. Hirtle, University of Pittsburgh
Alexander Klippel, Penn State University
Falko Schmid, University of Bremen
Committee
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Pragya Agarwal
Suchith Anand
Julie Dillemuth
Juergen Doellner
Georg Gartner
Christoph Hoelscher
Christian Kray
Antonio Krueger
Lynn Liben
Dan Montello
Avi Parush
Martin Raubal
Kai-Florian Richter
Christoph Stahl
Stephan Winter
Xiaolong Zhang
We look forward to receiving your contributions and active
participation.
Best wishes,
Suchith Anand
Dr
Suchith Anand
Centre for Geospatial Science
The Nottingham Geospatial Building
University of Nottingham NG7 2 TU
Tel: (0)115 82 32750
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm
http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/
http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/
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