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.
Alex and Rui received the best (senior) presentation award at COSIT
Paper accepted at workshop on Moving Objects (BMI'09).
NSF awareded research grant to Alex Klippel and Luke Zhang.
NSF awarded research grant to Alex Klippel.
Alex Klippel gave the kick-off coffee hour lecture series talk.
Paper accepted at WEBDB 2009.
Paper accepted at COSIT.
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 ...