3^rd International Symposium GeoAnalytics, gIV
Symposium Theme -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: · use and novel application of : - GeoAnalytics, geovisualization and geographical visualization methods for spatial and temporal data; - Synergy of GeoAnalytics and other research domain such as information visualization, scientific visualization, data mining or computational approaches; - Visualisation support for multi-criteria decision analysis related to spatial data; - Collaborative or Communicative GeoAnalytics; - 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 geovisual analytics design; - HCI issues of GeoAnalytics; · case studies in : Application of innovative GeoAnalytics, geovisualization, geographical visualization methods related to real-life problems Education · theoretical work that documents or supports any synergies including : Software architectures Theoretical frameworks Typologies gIV Advisory and Liaising committee <pending>: 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/IV10/PAPERS.htm Further information: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/
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All gIv 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