20.09.2024GIVA at COSIT 2024, Québec, Canada - Best Poster Award, Presented Papers, and more!

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:

Mona Bartling, Zhengfang Xu, and Sara Fabrikant received the COSIT 2024 Best Poster Award for Dr. Bartling’s lead FWF-funded research "From map-supported route planning to map-assisted navigation: a VR-based study to assess context-aware mobile map adaptation.” Congratulations!
Donatella Zingaro presented the paper "Exploring the Relation Between Sense of Direction and Spatial Anxiety in Everyday Mobile Map App Use," co-authored with Tumasch Reichenbacher, Mona Bartling, and Sara Fabrikant. Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.15.
Donatella Zingaro also participated in the COSIT Doctoral Mentoring Program, where she presented her PhD project.
Armand Kapaj presented the paper "Long-Term Landmark and Route Memory Retention Acquired in a Real-World Map-Aided Navigation Task," co-authored with Christopher Hilton (Department of Psychology and Ergonomics,TU Berlin) and Sara Fabrikant. Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.13.
Armand Kapaj presented the already-published article in the Spatial Cognition and Computation journal in 2024, titled "The influence of landmark visualization style on task performance, visual attention, and spatial learning in a real-world navigation task," co-authored with Christopher Hilton, Sara Lanini-Maggi, and Sara Fabrikant. Read the full journal article here: https://doi.org/10.1080/13875868.2024.2328099.
Armand Kapaj, Gabriele Filomena (University of Liverpool, UK), Toru Ishikawa (Toyo University, Japan), Ed Manley (University of Leeds, UK), and Angela Schwering (University of Muenster, Germany) organized and held a thematic session at COSIT 2024 on Conducting Empirical Research across Spatial Cognition and GIScience: Progress and Outlook. The thematic session was held in coordination with the International Cartographic Association Commission on Obiqutiuous Mapping (chair: Toru Ishikawa, vice-chairs: Angela Schwering and Armand Kapaj, see ICA Commissions). Special thanks to Sara Fabrikant, Sabine Timpf (University of Augsburg, Germany), and Daniel Montello (University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA), who served as panelists during the discussion round and provided their valuable feedback.

COSIT 2024 Awards

Mona Bartling, Zhengfang Xu, and Sara Fabrikant received the COSIT 2024 Best Poster Award for Dr. Bartling’s lead FWF-funded research "From map-supported route planning to map-assisted navigation: a VR-based study to assess context-aware mobile map adaptation.” Congratulations!
COSIT 2024 Paper Presentations

Donatella Zingaro presenting her research paper
COSIT 2024 Paper Presentations

Armand Kapaj presenting his published journal article
COSIT 2024 Paper Presentations - Q&A

Donatella Zingaro and Armand Kapaj during the Q&A session
COSIT 2024 Paper Presentations - Q&A

Armand Kapaj during the Q&A session after presenting his paper
COSIT 2024 Doctoral Mentoring Program

Donatella Zingaro presenting her PhD project
COSIT 2024 Thematic Session

Armand Kapaj presenting a lightning talk during the co-organized thematic session
COSIT 2024 Thematic Session

Group discussions during the thematic session
COSIT 2024 Thematic Session

Sara Fabrikant among the panelists during the thematic session
COSIT 2024 Thematic Session

Sara Fabrikant among the panelists during the thematic session
GIVA COSIT delegation plus Dr. Takuya Takahashi from the GIS group enjoying a boat cruise on the Saint Lawrence River in Québec. See you at the next COSIT!