On January 30, Ben Adams will be co-presenting a demo called IssueBrowser: Knowledge Acquisition via Multimedia Data at the 1st Workshop on Media Arts, Science, and Technology begin held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

Dr. Martin Raubal will speak at the January 21st ThinkSpatial brownbag forum on spatial thinking, which is part of the Spatial@UCSB center. The slides of the talk can be downloaded here.

Abstract: Geographic information science provides the foundation for the development of geospatial tools and services that support people in their spatio‐temporal decision‐making. In order to offer useful and useable solutions, principles of human spatial cognition regarding the representation and processing of spatial and temporal aspects of phenomena must be considered in the design of these tools. Such cognitively engineered geospatial services aim for cognitive adequacy and therefore facilitation of user interaction. In this talk I will argue for the necessity of cognitive engineering methods in the field of geographic information science by explicating their theoretical foundation and demonstrating practical geospatial applications. I will further demonstrate a framework for classifying cognitive user parameters, which can be employed for the personalization of geospatial services.