Kai-Florian Richter

I have received a School of Engineering Global Engagement Strategic Mobility Grant for a project on Assisting People Under Stress: Using Mobile Devices in Evacuation, which I will work on jointly with Toru Ishikawa from the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Our paper Supporting extraction of knowledge about environmental objects and events from geosensor data authored by Susanne Bleisch, Matt Duckham, Allison Kealy, myself, Stephan Winter, Stuart Kininmonth, Alexander Klippel, Patrick Laube, Jarod Lyon, David Medyckyj-Scott, and Tim Wark has been accepted for this year’s Autocarto conference. This paper will set the scene for our ARC Discovery Project  “From environmental monitoring to management”.

We are organizing an International Workshop on Place-Related Knowledge Acquisition Research at this year’s Spatial Cognition conference in Kloster Seeon, Germany.

The organizing committee is Stephan Winter, William Mackaness, Krzysztof Janowicz, myself, and Maria Vasardani. Check the website for more details!

We are partner in a project of the EU FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES program. The project mSAFE: mobile Smart Applications for Evacuation will deliver advances in the understanding of cognition under stress, real-time semantic querying and mobile human-computer interaction. Partners in this project are the University of Bremen, Germany (lead); the University of Zurich, Switzerland; the University of Melbourne, and La Trobe University. The project will commence in September 2012.

This week, Stephan Winter and me are presenting some of our work in the context of the ‘Talking About Place’ project and of Landmarks in OSM at the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Conference in Wellington, New Zealand.

I am now officially a Chief Investigator of the ‘Talking About Place‘ Linkage project. The Australian Research Council has approved my application for becoming a CI.

The paper ‘Get Me out of Here: Collaborative Evacuation Based on Local Knowledge’ written by Stephan Winter, myself, Mingzheng Shi and Heng-Soon Gan has been accepted for the Indoor Spatial Awareness workshop held at this year’s ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems.