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Our paper ‘Mining the Co-Existence of POIs in OpenStreetMap for Faulty Entry Detection‘, written by Alireza Kashian, myself, Abbas Rajabifard, and Yiqun Chen, has been accepted for the academic research stream ath this year’s Locate conference. The paper outlines Alireza’s … Continue reading →

Our paper ‘Are We There Yet? Spatial Cognitive Engineering for Situated Human-Computer Interaction‘, authored by myself, Martin Tomko, and Arzu Coltekin, has been accepted for the workshop on Cognitive Engineering for Spatial Information Processes, which will be held with COSIT in … Continue reading →

Our paper ‘Defensive Wayfinding: Incongruent Information in Route Following’ written by Martin Tomko and me has been accepted for this year’s Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT). The conference will be held on October 12-16 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The Department of Geography, University of Zurich, is offering a new specialized Master’s program in Geographic Information Science (GIScience) as of this fall semester. A bit of short notice maybe, but more information including how to apply can be found … Continue reading →

ACM Computing Reviews has published a review of our book ‘Landmarks – GIScience for Intelligent Services’.

Google Scholar now claims that my work has been cited 1000 times.

Alireza Kashian got a paper accepted at the Joint International Conference on Geospatial Theory, Processing, Modelling and Applications (organized among others by ISPRS) to be held in Toronto, CA, in early October. The paper is about RoadPlex: A Mobile VGI … Continue reading →

Landmarks are crucial elements of human understanding of and communication about space. And they pose a major challenge for computational systems. Stephan Winter and I have written a book — Landmarks – GIScience for Intelligent Services — summarizing research on … Continue reading →

Our paper Up, Down, Turn Around: Assisted Wayfinding Involving Level Changes, written by Stephany Bigler, Annina Brügger, Fiona Utzinger, and myself has been accepted as full paper for this year’s Spatial Cognition conference to be held in Bremen, Germany, in September. … Continue reading →

We got a paper accepted at this year’s GIScience conference in Vienna, Austria. Our paper Wayfinding Decision Situations: A Conceptual Model and Evaluation presents a model for decision point complexity that accounts for the structure of the intersection, the action to be … Continue reading →