The 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on MapInteraction, held in conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS, Orlando, Florida, USA

Maps are all around us and the visual core of spatial information. We use them on the Internet, in mobile devices, navigation systems, analysis and planning tools, for information visualization, or gaming. Whenever maps are involved, it usually is not about displaying static information, but about finding, accessing, adding, or editing information. We want to inspect relationships between entities, navigate through large result sets, and identify best solutions. Whatever it is, we need to express our needs and requirements such that algorithms and data can provide the answer. However, working with maps is surprisingly awkward. Even simple queries can require a lot of interaction, the formulation of complex queries is sometimes not even possible – although we know more about the user, the context, and the task than ever before.

With MapInteract 2013 we want to explore the future of maps as fully interactive interfaces. We are seeking for contributions addressing different facets of interactivity with maps: from interaction design and studies to algorithms and data enabling interaction. The application of maps is highly diverse and we aim to to provide a forum bringing researchers and practitioners of many domains and backgrounds together.

We invite the submission of research papers and interactive demos to discuss and experience new map-based interaction techniques and modalities, algorithms involved in interaction and visualization, user studies, adaptation, research agendas, common challenges.

Programme

08:00-09:00 Breakfast

09:00-09:50 Opening Remarks & Individual Introduction

09:50-10:30 Session 1: Perceptual and Cognitive Aspects

The influence of gaze history visualization on map interaction sequences and cognitive maps
Ioannis Giannopoulos (ETH Zurich), Peter Kiefer (ETH Zurich) and Martin Raubal (ETH Zurich)

The Effects of 2D and 3D Maps on Learning Virtual Multi-level Indoor Environments
Hengshan Li (University of Maine) and Nicholas Giudice (University of Maine)

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:20 Session 2: Interacting with Geo-Visualisations

Interfacing Real Time Ozone Information
Ilyas Uyanik (University of Houston), Dan Price (University of Houston), Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis (University of Athens) and Ioannis Pavlidis (University of Houston)

Examining the Impact of Regional Familiarity and Design Characteristics on Use of a Map-based News Visualization
Mohamad.H Salimian (Dalhousie University), Stephen Brooks (Dalhousie University) and Derek. F Reilly (Dalhousie University)

GeoSpy: a Web3D Platform for Geospatial Visualization
Nikita Sharakhov (Virginia Tech), Nicholas Polys (Virginia Tech) and Peter Sforza (Virginia Tech)

Assessing End-User Interaction for Multi-Criteria Local Search with Heatmap and Icon based Visualizations
Chandan Kumar (University of Oldenburg), Benjamin Poppinga (OFFIS – Institute for Information Technology Oldenburg), Daniel Haeuser (University of Oldenburg), Wilko Heuten (OFFIS – Institute for Information Technology Oldenburg) and Susanne Boll (University of Oldenburg)

12:20-12:30 Demo Pitch

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Session 3: Demo Hands on

The Global Solar and Wind Atlas: a unique Global Spatial Data Infrastructure for all renewable energy
Jacinto Estima (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology Abu Dhabi), Nicolas Fichaux (International Renewable Energy Agency – IRENA Abu Dhabi), Lionel Menard (MINES ParisTech Paris) and Hosni Ghedira (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology Abu Dhabi)

A GUI Based LIDAR Data Processing System for Modeling and Mapping Generation
Zheng Cui (Florida International University), Keqi Zhang (Florida International University), Chengcui Zhang (The University of Alabama at Birmingham), Jianhua Yan (Amazon.com, Inc.) and Shu-Ching Chen (Florida International University)

Interacting with Multi-Perspective Views: Challenges and Approaches
Sebastian Pasewaldt (University of Potsdam), Jürgen Döllner (University of Potsdam)

The San Francisco Public Art Map Application: Using VGI and Social Media to Complement Institutional Data Sources
Nancy Milholland (University of Southern California) and Edward Pultar (University of Southern California)

Multiview User Interface Coordination in Browser-Based Geovisualization Environments
Alexander Savelyev (Pennsylvania State University,)

SMAALL – Interacting with a Smart Home through a Synchronized Scale Model
Christoph Stahl (DFKI GmbH) and Sebastian Beins (DFKI GmbH)

OpenScienceMap
Falko Schmid (University of Bremen)

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:20 Session 4: Algorithms for Interactive Maps

Historical map polygon and feature extractor
Mauricio Giraldo Arteaga (New York Public Library Labs)

Road segment selection with strokes and stability
Thomas C. Van Dijk (University of Würzburg), Krzysztof Fleszar (University of Würzburg), Jan-Henrik Haunert (University of Würzburg) and Joachim Spoerhase (University of Würzburg)

Flexible Route Guidance Through Turn Instruction Graphs
Dennis Luxen (MapBox Inc.)

Creating Task-Specific Maps with Map Content Transformations
Bernhard Schmitz (Universität Stuttgart) and Thomas Ertl (Universität Stuttgart)

17:20-18:00 Concluding Remarks

Organizers

Prof. Dr. Christian Kray, Director, Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi), University of Münster (WWU)
Holger Fritze, Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi), University of Münster (WWU)
Falko Schmid, University of Bremen