Visualization, HCI and XR webinar 7 May 2024

Visualization, HCI and XR webinar 7 May 2024

When: Tuesday 7th of May 9:30-11:00 CET Where: Online, Register here for your zoom link Program:All times are in CET (Central European Time), e.g., Zurich, Switzerland 09:30-10:00 CET Trustworthy Maps? Case Studies from Managing Emergencies, Dr. Amy Griffin, Senior Lecturer RMIT University of Melbourne, Australia 10:00-10:15 Q&A Part 1 / Amy10:15-10:30 CET Gamified XR for hazard preparedness in mining, Yan Wong, (incoming) PhD candidate, researcher, University of Pretoria, South Africa10:30-10:45 CET 3D selection for point clouds in XR, Luca Fluri,…

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Our WG IV/9 events at the ISPRS congress (6-11 June 2022), Nice, France

Our WG IV/9 events at the ISPRS congress (6-11 June 2022), Nice, France

The XXIV ISPRS Congress will take place 6-11 June 2022 in Nice, France. Our working group hosting the following sessions hosting the conference (the complete programme is available here).  ORAL SESSION TUE 7th June, 11:00-12:30 Geovisualization and extended reality Projective Multitexturing Of Current 3D City Models And Point Clouds With Many Historical Images, M. Brédif Improving 3D Pedestrian Detection for Wearable Sensor Data With 2D Human Pose, V. Kamalasanan  Virtual Element Retrieval In Mixed Reality, M. Radanovic Pose Estimation Through Mask-R CNN And VSLAM In…

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Recent PhD thesis: Exploring the cognitive processes of map users employing eye tracking and EEG

Recent PhD thesis: Exploring the cognitive processes of map users employing eye tracking and EEG

As you know, we sometimes feature recently finished PhD theses here in the blog. While 2020 has been an odd year in many ways, several PhD candidates finished up their thesis, defended their thesis remotely, basically talking to a screen. Not really the best energy but we commend them all for their resilience and congratulate them for this gigantic life event. Among those was Merve Keskin, a member of our WG, and Merve has sent us the following text that…

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The three special activities at the ISPRS2020 Nice (FR): Two theme sessions & one tutorial

The three special activities at the ISPRS2020 Nice (FR): Two theme sessions & one tutorial

An active ISPRS Congress is ahead of us! Our working group will chair several regular sessions (we are the ‘area chair’ for geovisualization, virtual and augmented reality sessions), two theme sessions and offer one tutorial. Both for regular sessions and theme sessions, you are welcome to use the congress’ interface to submit your contributions by 3rd of February, 2010 start here: http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/index.php/participate-submit/. The tutorial does not require contributions but at some point you will need to sign up for it….

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Thematic session II: SimVisu

Thematic session II: SimVisu

ISPRS2020/2021 Thematic session SimVisu2020 /2021 “Visualization of complex spatio-temporal data and phenomena on earth“. 2021 deadline: 1 February 2021, submit here Organizers: Sidonie Christophe,  Arzu Cöltekin, Christopher Pettit, Victoria Rautenbach, for the ISPRS WG IV The purpose is to bring closer simulation, prediction, learning models to geovisualization and geovisual analytics, to ease the visuo-spatial reasoning on the complex data and phenomena we could observe, learn, predict and simulate. The objective of this thematic session is to make researchers have a new…

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Tutorial at the ISPRS congress: Open content for geospatial education

Tutorial at the ISPRS congress: Open content for geospatial education

An open catalogue for geospatial educational resources   Tutorial presenters: Serena Coetzee, Victoria Rautenbach, Arzu Çöltekin, Chris Pettit, Sidonie Christophe, Marguerite Madden, Ochiroo Lkhamjav Existing geospatial educational resources (e.g. electronic textbooks, tutorials, and quizzes) are not always easy to find and to integrate into an academic module, amongst others, because the required metadata is not available. As a consequence, simple search attempts do not bring us to these resources, and we miss out on some material that may be very…

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Digital twins theme session in ISPRS 2020

Digital twins theme session in ISPRS 2020

Call for papers for a thematic session at the ISPRS 2020 / 2021 Digital twins: Vision papers Organizers: Arzu Çöltekin, Chris Pettit, Sidonie Christophe and Victoria Rautenbach 2021 deadline: 1 February 2021, submit here 2020 Deadline: 3rd of February As part of the “ISPRS Olympics” (the global international congress that takes place every fourth year) ISPRS2020 in Nice, we are organizing a thematic session on Digital Twins. With the advent of better functioning and more affordable extended reality displays (virtual,…

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IJGI Journal Special Issue: “Human-Centered Geovisual Analytics and Visuospatial Display Design”

IJGI Journal Special Issue: “Human-Centered Geovisual Analytics and Visuospatial Display Design”

A few of us are involved in organizing a journal special issue, loosely linked to the three events (see the previous post) this year. If you work on geovisual analytics/geovisualization and modern cartographic considerations for visual analytics/geovis (from a “display design” perspective), this may be for you. Note that this is an open access publication, this means there’s an article processing charge of CHF1000. This is nothing to do with the guest editorial team, it’s completely managed by the journal….

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The three events of 2018

The three events of 2018

Our working group is involved in organizing three events this year. Below you will find a summary and links to relevant event pages. Feel free to spread the word! 1) Workshop on Reproducibility in Cartography https://cogvis.icaci.org/18_reproducibility.html Led by ICA’s CogViz Commission. April 27th 2018, Olomouc, Czech Republic 2) Workshop on Virtual environments as geo/spatial labs http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~arzu/sc2018ve/ At the Spatial Cognition Conference. September 5th 2018, Tuebingen, Germany 3) Theme session on Virtual & Augmented Reality: Technology, Design & Human Factors http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~arzu/arvr2018/ At the…

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New Master of City Analytics

New Master of City Analytics

I am pleased to announce the enrolment for the first intake into UNSW’s Master of City Analytics  (MCA) is now open. Core courses include Programmable Cities, GIS and Urban Informatics, Digital Cities, Geodesign, Geocomputation and Urban Data Visualisation. Please circulate this to your students and colleagues you think might be interested. https://www.be.unsw.edu.au/degrees/postgraduate-coursework/master-of-city-analytics Regards Chris Chris Pettit Professor of Urban Science Director, City Analytics Program Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre PLuS Alliance Fellow