Workshop on Cognitive Engineering for Mobile GIS 2011

In conjunction with the Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT'11)

Belfast, Maine, USA, September 12-16th 2011.

Workshop Description & Scope

While mobile computing and Location-Based Services (LBS) have been around for more than a decade, it is just now that the availability of open source APIs and GPS-enabled smartphones make them accessible to a broader public. Citizens as sensors, location-based social networks, and lifelogs offer new, highly heterogeneous and timely sources of data that require processing and integration to develop mobile recommender and decision support systems on top of them. In contrast to desktop applications, mobile services are highly affected by contextual information such as the weather, they have reduced user interfaces, and require additional inference to extract user profiles and tasks from implicit information such as local time and location. The combination of these factors makes cognitive engineering methods to user interfaces and recommender services a promising approach. Such methods integrate cognitive and computer science approaches to the design and construction of machines. More specifically, when applying cognitive engineering to Mobile GIS, principles of human spatial cognition regarding the representation and processing of spatial and temporal aspects of phenomena, and aspects of mobile decision-making must be considered.

List of Relevant Topics

Relevant topics include but are not limited to:

  • Cognitive Engineering for a dynamic world
  • Cognitive aspects of mobile computing
  • Evaluation of cognitive engineering approaches
  • Location-based decision support systems
  • Mobile aspects of human decision-making
  • Spatial learning in a mobile context
  • Mobile Human-Computer-Interaction
  • Citizens as sensors
  • Volunteered Geographic Information for mobile devices
  • Communication of geographic information
  • Trust and provenance in mobile geographic information
  • Representing and reasoning about context
  • Semantic similarity and analogy
  • Ontology personalization
  • Semantics of geographic information
  • Mobile Semantic Web
  • Personal mobile GIS
  • Mobile sensor systems
  • Location-based services
  • Geovisualization for mobile devices

List of Accepted Papers

Program (September 12th 2011)

  • 9:00am Introduction by Krzysztof Janowicz, Martin Raubal, and Carsten Keßler
  • 9:30am Statements of Interest (5min presentation + 5min discussion)

    • Mobile Games for Spatial Knowledge Acquisition by Stephan Winter, Kai-Florian Richter, Timothy Baldwin, Lawrence Cavedon, Lesley Stirling,Matt Duckham, Allison Kealy, and Abbas Rajabifard
    • The Impact of Environmental Qualities and Individual Differences on Spatial Orientation in a Mobile Context by Rui Li, Alexander Klippel, Lynn Liben, and Adam Christensen
    • Hidden Ontologies – How Mobile Computing Affects the Conceptualization of Geographic Space by Jim Thatcher, Christoph Mülligann, Wei Luo, Sen Xu, Elaine Guidero, Alexander Savelyev, and Krzysztof Janowicz
    • Gamification and Location-based Services by Grant Mckenzie
    • Enable Location-based Services with a Tracking Framework by Mareike Kritzler
    • Personal Geographic Information Management by Amin Abdalla and Andrew U. Frank
  • 10:30am Coffee break
  • 11:00am Decide on two topics for breakout groups (based on the presentations)
  • 11:15am Breakout groups on two selected topics
  • 12:15pm Group discussion and conclusions

Workshop Format and Structure

The workshop will focus on intensive discussions setting a road-map for research on cognitive engineering for Mobile GIS. To prepare the discussion and share thoughts with the research community, participants can submit short vision statements between 4-8 pages in length. These statements of interest will be used by the program committee to select relevant topics for breakout groups. The vision statements will be presented as lightning talks of not more than 5 minutes to inspire discussion and coordinate the breakout groups. The groups will report on their outcomes, identified research topics, and how they relate to each other. We especially welcome demonstrations and will have a session for their presentation. The workshop organizers will take notes and collect feedback during the discussions and prepare a draft version of a poster that outlines the research agenda. This poster will be discussed in a final session and published online.

Submissions and Proceedings

All presented papers will be made available through the workshop web-page and published as a volume at CEUR-WS online proceedings. Submissions have to be formatted according to Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. While the workshop will focus on discussion of upcoming research, extended versions of workshop papers will be considered for a fast-track submission to a journal open-call special issue on Cognitive Engineering for Mobile GIS targeted for the first quarter of 2012.

Please upload your submission using the workshop's EasyChair web-page (closed).

Important Dates

Submission due: 10. June 2011

Acceptance Notification: 11. July 2011

Camera-ready Copies: 18. July 2011

Organizers

Programme Committee

  • Benjamin Adams, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
  • Drew Dara-Abrams, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
  • Susanne Boll, University Oldenburg, Germany
  • Boyan Brodaric, Geological Survey of Canada, Canada
  • Michael Compton, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
  • Matt Duckham, The University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Andrew Frank, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  • Brent Hecht, Northwestern University, USA
  • Stephen Hirtle, University of Pittsburgh, USA
  • Christian Kray, University of Muenster, Germany
  • Daniel R. Montello, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
  • Silvia Nittel, University of Maine, USA
  • Antti Oulasvirta, Aalto University and University of Helsinki, Finland
  • Tumasch Reichenbacher, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Kai-Florian Richter, The University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Michael Rohs, University of Munich, Germany
  • Johannes Schoening, Saarland University, Germany
  • Matthew Turk, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

 

Please feel free to contact Krzysztof for further questions.