Geographic Visualization Across the Social Sciences : State of the Art Review

Organisers

Martin Dodge m.dodge@manchester.ac.uk
Geography, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester

Michael Batty m.batty@ucl.ac.uk
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis & GeoVUE Research Node Director, University College London

Dr.Martin Turner martin.turner@manchester.ac.uk
Manchester Visualization Centre, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester

Mary McDerby Mary.McDerby@manchester.ac.uk
Manchester Computing, Kilburn Building, University of Manchester

Mark Elliott Mark.J.Elliot@manchester.ac.uk
CCSR, NCeSS Hub, University of Manchester

This workshop is being co-organised by: Manchester Visualization Centre, the University of Manchester; Geography, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester; Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London and CCSR, University of Manchester.

The workshop is being sponsored by: National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS), JISC Visualization Support Network (VizNet) and Manchester Computing

Date and Location

12 - 13 June 2006, Michael Smith Building, University of Manchester

Programme and Abstracts Booklet

The programme and abstacts booklet is now available.(1.52mb)

Summary

The goal of the two-day workshop was to explore the ‘state of the art’ of geographic visualization across the social sciences, reviewing innovative methods and techniques, evaluating new software tools and data resources, and reporting the development of new applications to support research and pedagogy.

The goal was to attract a diverse mix of researchers from different disciplines who are exploiting the potential of geographic visualization to advance social science scholarship. The workshop helped to foster discussion and interactions between researchers from different disciplines and institutions, as well as highlighting the potential for new computation resources to support visualization coming on-stream from e-Social Science initiatives. Furthermore, the workshop aimed to produce an edited book of papers presented to help define the scope of visualization work in the social sciences. In some senses the workshop in June represented a (near) ten year updating of the AGOCG-sponsored ‘Graphics, Visualization and the Social Sciences’ workshop held in May 1997 at Loughborough University (see www.agocg.ac.uk).

Programme

Keynote 1: What does Google Earth Mean for the Social Sciences? (1.76MB)
Michael Goodchild, University of California Santa Barbara

Session 1: Innovative Applications

Visualizing Geographies. Pitfalls and Potentialities of Geographic Representation in Social Anthropology
Andreas Dafinger, University of Manchester

Geovisualization Applications in Research and Teaching (955KB)
Jason Dykes and Stephanie Marsh, giCentre, City University London

Landscape Visualization and Mixed Realities
Gary Priestnall, Centre for Applied Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham

Keynote 2: The Milestones Project: A Case Study in Statistical Historiography (7.19MB)
Michael Friendly, York University, Toronto, Canada

Session 2: GeoTools

Re-visualizing our World (2.34MB)
Anna Barford, University of Sheffield

Aerial Photography and Planning: emerging uses in property research
Scott Orford, University of Cardiff

Geovisualization and time - new opportunities for the space-time cube (1.02MB)
Menno Jan Kraak, International Institute of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation Department of Geo-Information Processing, The Netherlands

The Influence of Uncertainty Visualization on Decision Making (635KB)
Stephanie Deitrick, Arizona State University

Session 3: Data/National Services

MIMAS Geospatial Services
Kamie Kitmitto, MIMAS

Geospatial Data Visulaization Via Web Services - An Introduction to the Technologies and Nomenclature (373KB)
James Reid, EDINA, University of Edinburgh

Keynote 3: The Visual City
Mike Batty, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London

Session 4: Built Environment/3D

3D GIS: Teaching and Planning for the Future (3.68MB)
John Marsden, University of Liverpool

Geographic Visualization for Forward Planning in the Fast Growing Megacities of the Developing World: Prospects and Limitations (12.89MB)
Manoj Kumar Roy, Queens University Belfast

Designing Visual Systems for Public Participation in Urban Planning (1MB)
Andy Hamilton and Yun Chen, University of Salford

Session 5: Multi-Dimentional Methods

Visualizing Data Gathered by Mobile Phones (7.19MB)
Michael Wright, Leif Oppermann, Mauricio Capra & Adam Drozd, University of Nottingham

Travails in the Third Dimension
Ifan. D. H. Shepherd, Middlesex University

Metadata Frameworks for for Automating Visualization of Long-run Geographical Change (637KB)
Humphrey Southall, University of Portsmouth

Keynote 4: Where are we with Exploratory Visualization? (Multiple Linked Views and Beyond)
Jonathan Roberts, University of Kent