Workshops/Conferences
Survey of scientific/academic events (like conferences, workshops, etc.) related to the Urban Computing field.
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Workshops/Conferences
- LocWeb 2008: First International Workshop on Location and the Web, April 22, Beijing (related) (Siemens/Yi)
- The Ambient Information Systems Workshop (W9) at Ubicomp 2008 (related), September 21, COEX, Seoul, South Korea (Siemens/Yi)
- Digital Geography in a Web 2.0 World (Siemens/Yi)
- AAG 2008: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 2008, April 15-19, Boston, USA (not related?) (Siemens/Yi)
- GeoWeb 2008
LocWeb 2008: First International Workshop on Location and the Web, April 22, Beijing (related) (Siemens/Yi)
- Link:
- Orgnaizers:
- Susanne Boll, the Department of Computing Science at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, et al.
- Goals:
The workshop focuses on all the geospatial aspects that are related to the Web. The main objective is to look into the fields of how to extract, index, mine, find, exploit, mashup, and visualize Web content with respect to its location semantics. The workshop aims to bring together researchers in the fields of geographic information retrieval, location-based media search on the Web, Web 2.0 and user generated content, core Web technologies, and geographical information systems both from academia and industry labs to discuss and present the latest results and trends in all facets of the relationship between a physical location and Web information.
- Topics of interest:
- Spatial Web information retrieval (geographical search, ranking, and annotation; spatial indexing; locative spam)
- Understanding and modeling location (deriving, harvesting and mining location; core location concepts and formal ontologies; location as first-level Web concept; location syntax and semantics)
- Visualizing geographically referenced data (user interfaces; visualizing and interacting with location-driven query results and localized data on mobile devices)
- Location, mobility and the user (mobile localized search; mobile sensor data fusion and location)
- Geospatial media and applications (geo-driven media and content; location in and from Web 2.0 communities; location-aware social software)
The Ambient Information Systems Workshop (W9) at Ubicomp 2008 (related), September 21, COEX, Seoul, South Korea (Siemens/Yi)
- Link:
- Orgnaizers:
- William R. Hazlewood, School of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington, et al.
- Background:
- The research in pervasive and ubiquitous computing: context-aware computing, wireless connectivity, multi-sensor platforms, smart materials, and location-tracking technologies
- Information movement between the periphery and the center of one’s attention, and highly transparent technologies
- Goals:
- The workshop will bring together researchers working in the areas of ambient displays, eripheral displays, slow technology, glanceable displays, and calm technology, to discuss and collaborate on developing new design approaches for creating ambient information systems, to identify problems in the design, development, and evaluation of AIS and to derive fundamental challenges of AIS research.
- Topics of interest:
- differences from other information technologies
- examples for the implementation of ambient information
- merit in Ambient Noise, Ambient Smells, Tactile Ambience, and Ambient Taste
- perceivable and comprehensible ambient information
- interaction methods for information devices
- good placement of AIS to improve their chances of being used
- sorts of information conveyed by an ambient display
- methods for evaluating ambient information systems
- the values of these particular technologies in our everyday lives
- use of existing technologies (e.g. smart materials, wearable systems, etc.)
- knowledge from other domains (e.g., from art, cognitive science, design, psychology, sociology)
Digital Geography in a Web 2.0 World (Siemens/Yi)
- Links:
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/barbican/ (first) Februar 20, 2008, Barbican, London, UK
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/DigitalGeography/ (second) September 15, 2008, Urbis Museum in Manchester, UK
- Orgnaizers:
- University College London
- Background:
NCeSS: National Centre for e-Social Science
- NCeSS investigates how innovative and powerful computer-based infrastructure (commonly known as the Grid) and tools can benefit the social science research community.
- e-Social Science is a term used to describe collaborations between computer scientists and social scientists. The aim is that the computer scientists design and develop what is known as middleware – the software that makes sharing easy for non-experts – in order to address the social scientists' substantive research problems. Sharing resources refers to undertaking enormous calculations or processing huge amounts of data.
One of the research activities is ?PolicyGrid that brings together social scientists with interests in rural policy development and appraisal with computer scientists who have experience in Grid and Semantic Web technologies.
- growing artificial societies in silico from the bottom up
GENESIS Project: Generative e-Social Science for Scio-Spatial Simulation
- Collaboration of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London and the Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy (CSAP) at the University of Leeds
- agent-based simulation + geo-spatial visualisation
- model agents using census and survey data (large-scale);
- simulate their interactions under specified conditions;
- visualise the emergent patterns;
- deliver via the Internet as an easy-to-use web service.
- Abstract:
- Visualisation is essential to make sense of very large geographic data sets quickly, and where it is necessary to predict many alternative spatial patterns, and where the system is too complex to reduce all analysis to numbers.
- Three different ways of understanding geographic patterns in space and time
- traditional methods for urban simulation based on land use transport modelling
- iconic digital models based on 3D GIS and CAD
- demonstrate how patterns such as residential land use at the macro level can occur through the actions of individuals at the micro scale. Examples from the evacuation of a building to traffic jams through the use of Web 2.0 technologies, especially that of Second Life.
AAG 2008: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 2008, April 15-19, Boston, USA (not related?) (Siemens/Yi)
- Link:
The Meeting attracts geographers and related professionals from around the world. Our meeting forum stimulates discussion about research, education, accomplishments, and developments in geography. There were over 4,000 papers and presentations.