Overview

The Human Factors in GIScience lab as part of the GeoVISTA Center is devoted to advance the understanding of how humans cognize geographic space. Research related to this question addresses how humans communicate spatial information in different modalities (e.g, linguistically and graphically), how cognitive processes can be characterized formally, or how to advance emprical methods to learn about spatial cognition. As such, we are an interdisciplinary group collaborating with researchers in geography, linguistics, information science and technology, informatics, and psychology.

News

Human Factors Lab members Elaine and Rui receive awards.

We welcome new lab members Jennifer Smith, Sam Stehle, and Jan Oliver Wallgruen.

Paper accepted at JOSIS.

Paper accepted for Las Navas Book.

Raechel, Sen, and Rui participating in COSIT 2011, Belfast Maine.

Paper acepted at Journal of Map and Geography Libraries.

Paper accepted at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2011.

Chealsea, Rui, and Alex at the CogSci 2011 Conference, just before a talk by Noam Chomsky.

Paper accepted at Workshop on Cognitive Engineering for Mogile GIS

Paper accepted at the Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

Paper accepted at the COSLI-2 Workshop.

Alex is now editorial board member of JOSIS.

Chelsea receives research grant from the Schreyer's Honors College.

The Human Factors Lab welcomes its new and renewed members: Raechel Bianchetti, Jinlong Yang, and Brian Chorman.

Jinlong's thesis was approved by the Schreyer Honors Program.

Jinlong receives an honorable mention for the for 2010-2011 AAG Marble-Boyle Undergraduate Achievement Award.

AAG2011

Lab meeting on the 35th floor of the Sheraton in Seattle during the 2011 AAG meeting.

Paper accepted at CoSci2011.

Paper accepted at TopiCS.

Paper accepted at CaGIS.

The Human Factors Lab welcomes its new members: Elaine Guidero and Chelsea Gilliam.

Paper accepted at CaGIS.

Sen Xu finished his master thesis. Congratulations Sen!

Rui Li has designed the Human Factors in GIScience logo. Thanks Rui!

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Lab Meeting at Mt Hood (SC'10)

Four members from the Human Factors Lab to participate in SC'2010

 

Research in focus

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This month research focus is on work together with Frank Hardisty (GeoVISTA Center) and Chris Weaver (Oklahoma State University) on star plot glyphs and visual analytics. We conducted several experiments to shed light on the role that shape (of a star plot glyph) has on how the represented data is interpreted. We also developed tools that aid in the analysis of behavioral data. Read more ...