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Qi Ying delivered a presentation titled “Mobile Eye Tracking Outdoors” at the very well attended Eye Tracking Interest Group Zurich (ETIZ) meet-up held at ETH Zentrum on Monday, November 18, 2024, organized by Prof. Christoph Hölscher and colleagues.
Together with Profs. Kathleen Stewart (U. Maryland), Meiliu Wu (U. Glasgow), and Simon Scheider (U. Utrecht), Sara Fabrikant shared professional experiences and personal perspectives on the online and distributed early career panel (http://sdss2024.spatial-data-science.net/index.html) lead by the SDSS general chair, Prof. Krzysztof Janowicz and team (U Wien) at the hybrid SDSS24.
Invited talk at the workshop “Geovisualisation: Interfaces and Interactions,” organized by the (Carto)graphies et (Géo)visualisation de données research action (AR99 of the GdR CNRS MAGIS), held at the Université Gustave Eiffel, October 4, 2024.
The 16th Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024) was held in Québec City, Canada, from September 17-20, 2024. Established in 1993, COSIT is a biennial international conference series concerned with theoretical aspects of space and spatial information. The GIVA group had extensive participation at COSIT 2024 where group members presented the following work:
The 9th International Conference on Spatial Cognition (ICSC 2024), devoted to “Segmentation and Binding in Spatial Cognition,” was held in Rome from September 9-13, 2024. The GIVA group attended the ICSC and presented the following work:
Qi Ying has been invited to give a presentation on "Spatial knowledge acquisition in mobile map-assisted navigation: a real-world longitudinal study" at the European Cartographic Conference – EuroCarto 2024, on 10 September 2024 in Vienna (Programme).
Tumasch Reichenbacher and Qi Ying have been invited to give a presentation at the ICA Workshop on AI, Geovisualisation, and Analytical Reasoning on 7 September 2024 in Warsaw (Programme)
Special Issue in Cartography and Geographic Information Science (CaGIS)
A special issue was put together to recognize Prof. Barbara Buttenfield's 35+ years of contributions to Cartography and GIScience. It containis five co-authored articles by her former students, collaborators, and GIScience scholars who were influenced by her work, including GIVA members.
DSI Strategy Lab 2023—Position Paper
In times of artificial intelligence, exchange and reflection are likely to take on more importance in teaching. Universities also need to find out which cannot be replaced by AI, according to the Digital Society Initiative at UZH
How Do In-Car Navigation Aids Impair Expert Navigators’ Spatial Learning Ability?
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
The positive effect of blue luminescent pathways on urban park visitor’s affective states: A virtual reality online study measuring facial expressions and self-reports
Urban Analytics and City Science
The influence of landmark visualization style on task performance, visual attention, and spatial learning in a real-world navigation task
Spatial Cognition & Computation
Fixation-related potentials during mobile map assisted navigation in the real world: The effect of landmark visualization style
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
Instead of blindly following Google Maps, we should have a different kind of navigation system that helps us learn from the environment as we go, argues Sara I. Fabrikant. Ahead of her Robert Blumberg Distinguished Lecture in Cognitive Science at the University of Riga, she talked about the intricate interplay between digital navigation tools and human cognition.
A study on the aptitude of color hue, value, and transparency for geographic relevance encoding in mobile maps
Cartography and Geographic Information Science
Mental health challenges and digital platform opportunities in patients and families affected by pediatric neuromuscular diseases - experiences from Switzerland
DIGITAL HEALTH, Volume 9: 1–11
How does your viewing perspective matter for decision-making with flood risk maps?
Cartography and Geographic Information Science
Adaptivity as a key feature of mobile maps in the digital era
Front. Commun. 8:1258851.
Challenges and best practices for digital unstructured data enrichment in health research: A systematic narrative review
PLOS Digit Health 2
On October 13, 2023 we celebrated four of GIVA's proud new Masters in Geography: Patrick Luchsinger (left), Sebastian Marti (right) in the picture together with Tumasch Reichenbacher (middle), including Inga Birkhölzer and Stéphanie Wismer who unfortunately could not be found for the picture taking at graduation day. We wish them all the best for the future! This includes congratulatory wishes from afar from Sara Fabrikant, currently on research leave in Tokyo, Japan.
Limiting the reliance on navigation assistance with navigation instructions containing emotionally salient narratives for confident wayfinding
Journal of Environmental Psychology
A Space-Time Model for Demand in Free-Floating Carsharing Systems
Journal of Advanced Transportation
Neuroadaptive mobile geographic information displays: an emerging cartographic research frontier
International Journal of Cartography
Was bedeutet die Digitalisierung für mobile Karten? Warum sehen sich Kartenapps so ähnlich? Unterstützen sie uns optimal bei unserer Mobilität?
Neuroadaptive LBS: towards human-, context-, and task-adaptive mobile geographic information displays to support spatial learning for pedestrian navigation
Journal of Location Based Services
From pandemic to endemic: Spatial-temporal patterns of influenza-like illness incidence in a Swiss canton, 1918–1924
Economics & Human Biology, vol. 50
Great fun talking to Frank Richter & Jessica Reust in their brand new DIZH "Schampar Digital" Series on the digital transformation about map assisted navigation, spatial learning, & spatial cognition. https://t.ly/9b69x - Swiss German only.
Landmark Sequence Learning from Real-World Route Navigation and the Impact of Navigation Aid Visualisation Style
Journal of Cognition, vol. 6(1), no. 41: 1–8
For her outstanding and sustained contributions to the discipline worthy of inspiring young scientists in Geoinformatics or Geographic Information Science, and for having accomplished significant advances in research and education.
On May 24, GIVA organised a field trip with 25 students from the Bachelor and Master curriculum to Berne. In the morning, we learned how swisstopo collects topographic data and how the maps are produced and printed. Later we had the chance to explore modern geovisualisation tools.
Landmark Visualization on Mobile Maps – Effects on Visual Attention, Spatial Learning, and Cognitive Load during Map-Aided Real-World Navigation of Pedestrians
(Fabrikant / Gartner / Lanini-Maggi / Richter / Weibel)
Human spatial navigation in the digital era—effects of landmark depiction on mobile maps on navigators’ spatial learning and cognitive load during assisted navigation
(Fabrikant / Gramann / Weibel )
How does the design of landmarks on a mobile map influence wayfinding experts’ spatial learning during a real-world navigation task?
Cartography and Geographic Information Science
On March 3, 2023 we celebrated four of GIVA's proud Masters in Geography. We wish them all the best for their future!
From left to right: Tumasch Reichenbacher, Nicolas Morf, Florian Sturzenegger, Jana Bracher, Anna-Lena Burren, Sara I. Fabrikant
Using spontaneous eye blink-related brain activity to investigate cognitive load during mobile map-assisted navigation
Frontiers in Neuroscience, Sec. Neural Technology, Volume 17 - 2023
Checking the pulse of society
What can tweets reveal about our mental health? Oliver Grübner explored this question with two colleagues from different disciplines and faculties. Together they have now won the UZH Postdoc Team Award
Reproducibility and Scientific Integrity of Big Data Research in Urban Public Health and Digital Epidemiology: A Call to Action
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(2), 1473
A global portrait of expressed mental health signals towards COVID-19 in social media space
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Volume 116, February 2023, 103160
on epidemics, space & inequality – past and present.
The symposium was held at the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (IEM) organized by PD Dr. Kaspar Staub.
The effect of landmark visualization in mobile maps on brain activity during navigation: A virtual reality study
Front. Virtual Real., 15 November 2022
Digital platform uses for help and support seeking of parents with children affected by disabilities: A scoping review
J Med Internet Res 2022;0(0):e0)
The Effect of Abstract vs. Realistic 3D Visualization on Landmark and Route Knowledge Acquisition
Armand Kapaj got the Award for the "Best Short Paper" at the 15th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory
Eye Blink-Related Brain Potentials During Landmark-Based Navigation in Virtual Reality
Bingjie Cheng presented the research work on eye blink-related brain potentials during landmark-based navigation in virtual reality at the COSIT 2022 in Kobe.
Social media mining under the COVID-19 context: Progress, challenges, and opportunities
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Tappigraphy: continuous ambulatory assessment and analysis of in-situ map app use behaviour
Journal of Location Based Services
Opportunities and challenges of using social media big data to assess mental health consequences of the COVID‑19 crisis and future major events
Discover Mental Health
Virtual Reality as a Tool for Political Decision-Making? An Empirical Study on the Power of Immersive Images on Voting Behavior
Frontiers in Communication
An augmented reality study for public participation in urban planning
Journal of Location Based Services
Mental Health and Treatment Considerations for Urban Populations
Comprehensive Clinical Psychology (2nd Edition), Volume 9, 2022, Pages 291-303
Small Area Variation of Adherence to Clinical Recommendations: An Example from Switzerland
SAGE
https://doi.org/
Detecting Suicide Ideation in the Era of Social Media: The Population Neuroscience Perspective
Front. Psychiatry
https://doi.org/
Ethical issues of collecting, storing, and analyzing geo-referenced tweets for mental health research
Digital Health
https://doi.org/
Adapting mobile map application designs to map use context: a review and call for action on potential future research themes
Cartography and Geographic Information Science
https://doi.org/
The impact of landmark visualization style on expert wayfinder’s cognitive load during navigation.
Abstracts of the International Cartographic Association 2021, International Cartographic Conference, Dec. 14-18, 20201, Florence, Italy,
Take that Flood: Does your Perspective Matter?
Abstracts of the International Cartographic Association 2021, International Cartographic Conference, Dec. 14-18, 20201, Florence, Italy,
Perform various floating catchment area methods to calculate a spatial accessibility index (SPAI) for demand point data. The distance matrix used for weighting is normalized in a preprocessing step using common functions. https://cran.r-project.org/
The coronavirus primarily affects our bodies, but it also has massive impact on our mental health. GIUZ researchers use Twitter content to detect emotional stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
From September 30 – October 2, 2021 the DSI Community Mobility and UZH Innovation Hub organised the Innovathon 2021: The Digitalization of Mobility
On September 29, 2021 Dr. Sara Lanini-Maggi with Dr. Ian Ruginski and Prof. Dr. Sara Fabrikant presented their research on emotional navigation instructions and their impact on spatial learning and map use while navigating unfamiliar environments at GIScience conference:
The influence of landmark visualization style on expert wayfinders’ visual attention during a real-world navigation task.
11th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Sep. 27–30, 2020/1, Poznan, Poland.
Modeling Patterns in Map Use Contexts and Mobile Map Design Usability
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf.
https://doi.org/
Effect of cognitive load on spatial learning during navigation: a virtual reality study
International Neuroergonomics Conference 2021, Sep. 11-15, 2021.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Fakultät für Mathematik
How will navigation systems of the future make us smarter?
When we move through a city today, we often focus more on our smartphone screen than on the road while finding our way. Does this mean we're losing the important ability to orientate ourselves?
Assessing how visual search entropy and engagement predict performance in a multiple-objects tracking air traffic control task
Elsevier
https://doi.org/
Toward flexible visual analytics augmented through smooth display transitions
Visual Informatics
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Real-time geospatial surveillance of localized emotional stress responses to COVID-19: a proof of concept analysis
Health and Place
https://doi.org
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Space-Time Dependence of Emotions on Twitter after a Natural Disaster
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health
https://doi.org
Does diet map with mortality? Ecological association of dietary patterns with chronic disease mortality and its spatial dependence in Switzerland
British Journal of Nutrition
https://doi.org
Harm Avoidance and Mobility During Middle Childhood and Adolescence among Hadza Foragers
Human Nature (2021) 32:150–176
https://doi.org
Can Big Data Be Used to Monitor the Mental Health Consequences of COVID-19?
Int J Public Health
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Geografische Daten der Schweiz für alle verfügbar
Tagesschau vom 21.03.2021
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Geospatial Analysis of COVID-19: A Scoping Review
Munazza Fatima 1, Kara J. O’Keefe, WenjiaWei, Sana Arshad and Oliver Gruebner
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health
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Public Health Interventions, Epidemic Growth, and Regional Variation of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Outbreak in a Swiss Canton and Its Greater Regions
Annals of Internal Medicine
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Susceptibility of domain experts to color manipulation indicate a need for design principles in data visualization
Markus Christen, Peter Brugger, Sara Irina Fabrikant
PLOS ONE
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Unser Gehirn ist wie ein Muskel. Wir müssen es benutzen, damit es leistungsfähig bleibt. Je mehr wir Navigationssysteme nutzen, desto schlechter können wir uns selbständig in der Welt zurechtfinden.
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How do you navigate to a place you have never been to before? Do you look for clues in the environment, or do you follow the blue dot on your navigation system? Landmarks help us to learn the layout of a traveled space.
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What if you could immerse yourself and experience a future transport system in a realistic looking virtual environment through your VR goggles, instead of reading about it in a printed booklet before casting your vote?
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Do you remember how to get to your favorite coffee shop? What is the shortest path to your best friend's apartment? For this you need to rely on your navigation and spatial learning abilities.
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Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Dariusz Gotlib, Prof. Dr. Georg Gartner, Dr. Tumasch Reichenbacher
The Smart Cities journal is currently looking for submissions to a special issue on 'Use of Location-Based Information for Smart Governance‘
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Dr. Ian T. Ruginski, Bingjie Cheng, Armand Kapaj, Department of Geography, University of Zurich
Millions of international citizens make decisions with and navigate using mobile phones, as GPS-enabled smartphone devices have become increasingly available to the general public.
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The Impact of 3D Virtual Environments with Different Levels of Realism on Route Learning: A Focus on Age-Based Differences
(Çöltekin / Fabrikant / Weibel / Wiener)
Walk and Learn: Effects of Human-Centered Navigation Systems on Pedestrians’ Navigation Behavior
(Richter / Fabrikant / Weibel)
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Last autumn, many people could not quite understand the choice of my Master's thesis topic "The Spanish Flu in the Canton of Berne". Three months and a pandemic outbreak later, however, things are quite different.
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Michelle Korporaal's MSc thesis summarized in the paper "Effects of Uncertainty Visualization on Map-Based Decision Making Under Time Pressure" informs us that uncertainty visualization influences our decision making with maps.
Feel free to check out the paper for other interesting findings.
Congratulations Michelle, Ian, and Sara!
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Prof. Dr. Sara Fabrikant and her co-authors have published an article on "Digital health and the COVID-19 epidemic: an assessment framework for apps from an epidemiological and legal perspective" in Swiss Medical Weekly. Congratulations, Sara!
Link to the published paper: https://smw.ch/article/doi/smw.2020.20282
Are you interested in carrying out a PhD? We are happy to invite applications for a doctoral research position at the research group "Geovisual analytics and digital transformation" led by Dr. Tumasch Reichenbacher. The PhD project is embedded in the larger context of the UZH Digital Society Initiative and aims at understanding mobility patterns and geographic information usage behaviour in varying mobile decision-making contexts from a digital transformation perspective. For more information regarding the position and how to apply please see the official advertisement.
With great pleasure, we announce that Sascha Credé has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis “The Benefits of Global Landmarks for Spatial Learning under Stress” on November 13th, 2019. GIVA would like to thank him for writing and maintaining the GIVA website for years, and for setting up the experiment participant portal, aside from doing his Ph.D. Congratulations from the GIVA group and every success in your future career!
The picture shows Sascha during the Ph.D. graduation ceremony (from left to right: Dean of Faculty of Science Roland Sigel, Sascha Credé, Sara Irina Fabrikant).
GIVA is glad to welcome Dr. Ian Ruginski as new member of the team! Ian is a senior scientist who studies visual perception, navigation, and spatial cognition from an interdisciplinary perspective. He joined us from the University of Utah, where Ian received his PhD in Psychology focusing in Cognition and Neural Science (CNS) and worked as a postdoctoral fellow on the Spatial Cognition and Navigation project. In his empirical work, Ian has investigated different methods of uncertainty visualizations, emotion and spatial learning, and individual differences in spatial cognition. In his recent research, Ian is particularly interested in individual differences in spatial abilities, including how these are affected by geographic information display use.
Ian, we’re thrilled to have you on board !
