It has been 15 years since visual analytics was first established as the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive maps and visualizations. Since then, new models have been proposed to understand cognitive reasoning processes, new technologies have been released to support interactive, mobile, and immersive mapping, and new methods have been developed to examine and evaluate user experiences with analytical support systems. We call for research papers in cartography, visualization, and allied design fields to capture the state-of-science on visuospatial analytical reasoning.
Analytical Reasoning goes beyond simply noticing a pattern, and invokes a complex set of processes that aim to explain what has been seen, or to predict what will happen next. Creating the conditions in which users are able to reason about spatial information is a difficult task, and there are many challenges to overcome. This workshop invites short reports on ongoing and emergent work that aims to tackle one of the many dimensions in cartography that relate to supporting analytical reasoning. Broadly speaking, we are seeking work that focuses on understanding users, their cognitive processes, and/or their interactions with visual representations and computational methods via maps or geographic visualization. We welcome research that tackles these and related problem areas through computational, representational, or contextual methodological lenses. This workshop will provide a forum in which new approaches and ideas can be discussed and where new research collaborations can be formed.
Early stage work is explicitly encouraged, especially by junior scholars or those who might be new to cartography.
Relevant Topics Include:
- Geovisualization and visual analytics
- Storytelling for improved comprehension of geographic processes
- User experience design for expert systems
- Visuospatial cognition and reasoning
- Models of spatial cognition
- Models of human visuospatial reasoning
- Individual and group differences in spatial abilities
- Wayfinding and navigation
- Reasoning on the go with augmented and mixed realities
- Thematic map design
- Visual variables and visual semiotics
- User perspectives on thematic cartography
- Human-computer interaction
- Immersive analytics
- Understandable machine learning
- Algorithms and spatial decision making
- Spatial decision support systems