International Symposium

GeoAnalytics, gIV

 

Symposium Theme

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GeoAnalytics

 

Geovisual Analytics (GeoAnalytics) is an emerging interdisciplinary field that integrates perspectives from Visual Analytics, Information Visualization and GeoVisualization and leverage human-computer interaction, perception and cognitive science. Appropriate GeoAnalytics methods help identify relevant geospatial information, data, and knowledge by supporting analytical process that demands integrated and sophisticated interactive tools that aid the user to manage, process visualize and interact with large information spaces, and that are specifically designed to provide support for geoanalytical reasoning. Often the activities that GeoAnalytics is directed toward involve recognizing relevant information in large spatio-temporal and multivariate datasets that make what is relevant difficult to determine using traditional methods.

There is evidently much room for synergy between two distinct domains such as GeoVisualization and Information Visualization and associated applications areas such as environmental, logistics, meteorology, social science, education, energy, decision support and others. This is particularly so in the context of the Visual Analytics research agenda. This symposium is meant to attract the attention of a research community interested in the emerging field GeoAnalytics and the synergies between Geovisualization and Information Visualization through presentations and discussion of applications, techniques and novel approaches supporting research efforts focus on such questions as:

·         How to visualise spatio-temporal and multivariate data in a way that supports clear understanding of the problem, finding reasonable ways to solve it, seeing pros and cons of each possible solution, and understanding the tradeoffs between various options;

·         How to help users to understand and properly utilise synergies between geo- and information visualization;

·         What other techniques and approaches could appropriately complement the visualisation in helping people to investigate problem situations and arrive at sound and well-grounded decisions;

·         How to externalise and manage the knowledge gained;

In particular we request reflective contributions in the following areas:

·                     examples of inter-disciplinary collaboration

·                     use and novel application of :

-         GeoAnalytics  methods for spatial and temporal data;

-         Synergy of geovisual and computational approaches;

-         Visualisation support for multi-criteria decision analysis and optimization;

-         Collaborative visualisation & participatory spatial decision making;

-         Visual support for individual and team analytical reasoning and sense making;

-         Methods to visualize and exploit heterogeneous information of varied quality;

-         Methods for capturing observations and findings in the course of analysis, for documenting, organising, and navigating discoveries, and for supporting knowledge construction;

-         GeoAnalytics support for spatial and spatio-temporal data mining and statistics;

-         Knowledge-based visualisation design;

-         HCI issues of geovisual analytics;

·                     case studies in :

          Decision-centred GeoAnalytics

          Education

          Related application domains (as described above)

·                     evaluation :

          Formal evaluations

          Evaluation methodologies

·                     theoretical work that documents or supports any synergies including :

          Software architectures

Theoretical frameworks

          Typologies

 

gIV08 Advisory and Liaising committee:

Mikael Jern, NVIS Norrköping Visualization Centre, Linköping University, Sweden

Heidrun Schumann, University of Rostock, Germany

Sara Fabrikant, University of Zurich, Switzerland
 

Submission procedures: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV09/PAPERS.htm

 

Further information: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV09/

http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV09/gIV09.htm

 
All gIv09 enquiries should be addressed to:
 
Mikael Jern
Norrköping Visualization and Interaction Studio
Department of Science and Technology, Sweden
mikje@itn.liu.se
All other enquiries and submissions should be addressed to:
Conference Co-ordinator