Hi,

I am researching about how to represent spatial concepts in tactile maps that should be easy to use, i.e. easy to understand. I have found some mails about tactile maps in the archive of the ACESSIBUILT list. Thus I thought this accouncement might be interesting for some of you: There will be a workshop about (tactile, visual or audio) maps to foster the interaction between researchers and practitioners at the Spatial Cognition Conference this year:

              Workshop on Spatial Knowledge Acquisition
                       with Limited Information Displays

                 In conjunction with Spatial Cognition 2012
                      Bavaria, Germany, 31. August 2012

                           http://maps4vips.info/skalid/

We invite you to join SKALID 2012 - The international workshop on Spatial Knowledge Acquisition with Limited Information Displays, held in conjunction with Spatial Cognition 2012 at Abbey Kloster Seeon in Bavaria, Germany, at August 31, 2012.

The workshop focuses on the challenges and opportunities of geographic spatial knowledge acquisition from visual, haptic, and multimodal maps with limited information displays. As we envisage it here, limited information displays are characterized by the restriction in size or resolution of the interface. One example are maps displayed on small screens of smartphones or navigation systems. Another example are haptic maps for orientation providing a coarse overview of environmental relations such as for complex railway stations or street networks.

The goal of this workshop is to investigate commonalities and differences of visual, haptic, and multimodal maps and the related spatial knowledge acquisition processes by approaching the topic from different backgrounds such as geography, spatial cognition, cartography, computer science, mobility research, human-computer interaction and psychology.

This workshop seeks for contributions including (but not limited to) the following topics:
- Navigation support with haptic, vibro-tactile, visual and any other limited information displays
- Hybrid-Cartography: bridging survey representations and route representations, or physical, static maps and virtual, interactive maps
- Psychological, ethnographic or sociological findings about the usage of limited information interfaces
- Measures, psychological studies and empirical results of the usability of limited information interfaces
- Novel information visualization algorithms for geographic information with limited information interfaces
- Formal or psychophysical models of spatial complexity measures
- Concepts and findings regarding the information architecture, the interaction design and the usability related to limited information displays

Find the detailed CfP at http://www.maps4vips.info/skalid/CfP.shtml
PDF Version of the detailed CfP: http://maps4vips.info/skalid/CfP.pdf


== DATES ==

Submission of papers:        until July 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance: from July 25, 2012
Camera-ready version:       until August 15, 2012
Workshop:                            August 31, 2012


== SUBMISSIONS ==

We will accept various types of submissions to this workshop:
- work-in-progress
- completed research
- case studies
- position papers, and
- concepts or technology prototypes

Contributions advancing practical or conceptual challenges, creative new ideas, and critical questions triggering discussion and debate are highly welcomed.

For details about the formatting and about the conference management system see http://maps4vips.info/skalid/Submission.shtml


== WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ==

- Christian Graf, University of Bremen
(http://cosy.informatik.uni-bremen.de/staff/christian-graf)
- Dr. Falko Schmid, University of Bremen
(http://cosy.informatik.uni-bremen.de/staff/falko-schmid)
- Prof. Dr. Nicholas Giudice, University of Maine
(http://spatial.umaine.edu/faculty/giudice/)

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== PROGRAM COMMITTEE ==

- Prof. Susane Boll, Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg
- Prof. Stephen Hirtle, University of Pittsburgh
- PD Dr. Christoph Hoelscher, Universitaet Freiburg
- Dr. Andreas Hub, Universität Stuttgart
- Prof. Alexander Klippel, Penn State University
- Prof. Amy Lobben, University of Oregon
- Prof. Dan Montello, University of California
- Martin Pielot, OFFIS Oldenburg
- Prof. Martin Raubal, ETH Zurich
- Dr. Kai Florian-Richter, The University of Melbourne
- Prof. Holly Taylor, Tufts University
- Prof. Gerhard Weber, Technische Universitaet Dresden
- Prof. Stephan Winter, The University of Melbourne

Find more information @ http://maps4vips.info/skalid 

Cheers
Christian

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