CfP: Workshop on Spatial Knowledge Acquisition with Limited Information Displays (August 31, 2012)

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Call for Papers

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/)

Please send all inquiries to skali...@maps4vips.info

== 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