ICSC 2024 conference in Rome. The poster was presented in Poster Session 1: "Mental representation, reasoning, & navigation".

Eva Nuhn, Kai Hamburger and Sabine Timpf published an article in the Journal of Location Based Services.

The article is about mapping olfactory cues for wayfinding and is available here:

https://doi.org/10.1080/17489725.2024.2371298

For the reconstruction of three female convents in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, Prof Timpf collects geodata together with a group of geoinformatics and geography students with expertise in GIS, surveying, CAD, photogrammetry and drone flight. The project was initiated by Dr. Franziska Neff from the UNAM in Mexico in collaboration with Dr. Pia Heberer from the institute of computer science as well as given support by Prof. Theo Ungerer.

Eva Nuhn, Kai Hamburger and Sabine Timpf won the best full paper award for for their paper on “Mapping olfactory cues for wayfinding – A theoretical approach and an empirical study" at the International Conference on Location Based Services (LBS 2023), which took place in Ghent, Belgium on 20-22 November 2023.

Link to LBS Conference

Irada Ismayilova and Sabine Timpf won the best short paper award for the paper tittled "Semantic Identification of Urban Green Spaces: Forest" at the AGILE 2023 (Association of Geographic Informtion Laboratories in Europe) conference, held in Delft, Netherlands.

The article explores semantic characteristics of urban forests in the cities of Augsburg and Wuerzbug, and utilizes these characteristics as unique forest Identifiers. Using Rule-based classification technique, forest relevant bio-physical as well as spatial pattern rules are extracted. Finally, these rules are used to accurately map forests in both cities.

The published article is available  at: https://agile-giss.copernicus.org/articles/4/28/2023/

Eva Nuhn and Kai Hamburger from the Department of Psychology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen published an opinion article in Frontiers in Psychology.

The article is about cognitive landmark research and suggest that the focus in landmark-based wayfinding research needs to be shifted from an isolated “(visual) object-feature approach” to a more “individual-centered approach,” were perceptual and cognitive abilities, experiences, knowledge, and conscious vs. unconscious processing are considered as well.

The opinion article is now available here.

Marcel Schmidt finished his Bachelor's thesis with a nice model of the environs of the northern city gate and necropolis in Roman Augsburg using the ArcGIS CityEngine. The model may be viewed following this link (browser-based version): https://arcg.is/0fymOX

The symposium „On the Modelling of Landmarks“ at the International Conference on Spatial Cognition in Rome proposed by Dr. Nuhn has been accepted. Four presentations will provide the backbone of the symposium. Additional papers / presentations will be added to the symposium after a rigorous reviewing process. We look forward to going a step further with the challenge of modelling landmarks.

Eva Nuhn and Sabine Timpf have published an article on "How to Model (Personalised) Landmarks?" in Spatial Cognition XII.

Full paper is now available here.

Eva Nuhn has taken the final hurdle towards attaining a doctorate: she passed the doctoral examination with „magna cum laude“ on Oct 28, 2019. Congratulations !

We warmly welcome our newest team member, Irada Ismayilova, today. Irada is an agricultural engineer (master) and currently finishing her second masters in geoinformatics from the University of Tartu. She will join Maja and Eva in their office. Please make her welcome at the Institute.