Research

Focus, publications & grants

«When you find an idea that you can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.» – Josh James

Research interests

Mobile cartography and geovisualisation, Location Based Services
Mobile behaviour analytics
Visual and spatial cognition
Visual analytics

Publications

Here is a list of my publications

Presentations

Here is a list of my presentations

Research grants – research projects

Geographic relevance in mobile applications (GeoRel)
funded by Swiss National Science Foundation: Project 200021_119819 / 1
1 PhD position December 2008 – December 2011
Grant: 156425.00 CHF
Collaboration: Prof. Robert Weibel, Dr. Ross Purves (Geographisches Institut der Universität Zürich); Dr. David Mountain, Dr. Jason Dykes (Department of Information Science City University London); Prof. Liqiu Meng (Technical University Munich, Dept. of Cartography); Prof. Andre Skupin (Department of Geography , San Diego State University)

Development and Implementation of Geofoveation (GeoF)
funded by Swiss National Science Foundation: Project 200021_119819 / 1
1 PhD position September 2008 – August 2010
Grant: 93775.00 CHF
Collaboration: Prof. Dr. Andrew T. Duchowski (School of Computing, Clemson University, USA); Prof. Dr. Henrik Haggrén (Helsinki University of Technology)

Programme committees

AGILE 2008,AGILE 2009, AGILE 2010, AGILE 2011, AGILE 2012, AGILE 2013
CEMob2011@COSIT 2011, COSIT 2019, CUPUM 2013
GEOINFORMATIK 2011, GEOINFORMATIK 2012, GEOINFORMATIK 2013
GIScience 2010 (program co-chair), GIScience 2014
ICC 2015; IV2008, IV2011, IV2012, IV2016
LBS Conference 2009, 2012; LocWeb 2009; MapInteract 2014, MapInteract 2015

PhD committees

Paul Crease, University of Zurich, Department of Geography
Stefano De Sabbata, University of Zurich, Department of Geography
Marco Salvini, University of Zurich, Department of Geography
Jan Wilkening, University of Zurich, Department of Geography
Anna-Katharina Lautenschütz, University of Zurich, Department of Geography