From geovisualization toward geovisual analytics
Otaniemi Campus, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)

local organizer
Kirsi Virrantaus
Kirsi.virrantaus@tkk.fi
Tel. +358-500-463729

commission organizer
Menno-Jan Kraak
kraak@itc.nl

Program Summary

Thursday August 2
09:00-12:30 presentations (10 minutes presentation - 10 minutes discussion)
12:30-13:30 lunch
13:30-14:30 presentations (10 minutes presentation - 10 minutes discussion)
14:30-16:00 demo's
16:00-17:00 report / discussion visualization summit (July 3 Zuerich)
18:00-23:00 cruise & diner

Friday August 3
09:00-12:30 presentations (10 minutes presentation - 10 minutes discussion)
12:30-13:30 lunch
13:30-16:00 discussions

17.00 departure for Moscow

costs

 

Detailed program

THURSDAY  
09:00-09:20 User testing of pictorial symbols and subordinate quality variables -
Paula Ahonen-Rainio, Salla Multimäki, Jari Korpi (see also http://www.tkk.fi/~pmahonen/ICAvis2007/ )
09:20-09:40 Visual Analytics Approach to User-Controlled Transportation Scheduling -
N.Andrienko, G.Andrienko, U.Bartling
09:40-10:00 Evaluating the effectiveness of representing numeric information through abstract graphics in desktop 3D environments - Susanne Bleisch, Jason Dykes
   
10:10-10:30 Visualisation of Regression Trees - Chris Brunsdon
10:30-10:50 An Empirical Evaluation: Visual Attention Management by Foveation? - Arzu Çöltekin
10:50-11:10 A geovisual exploratory approach for interpretation of results of a spatial statistical method - Urška Demšar, Stewart Fotheringham, Martin Charlton (see also: http://ncg.nuim.ie/ncg/people/staff/demsar/ICAvis2007/ICAvis-WorkingPaper-DemsarFotheringhamCharlton.pdf )
   
11:20-11:40 A Cross-community Collaborative Visualization Platform for Comprehensive System Understanding in Geosciences - Doris Dransch, Anastasia Galkin
11:40-12:00 road/map : Geovisualization Insights in a Mental Health Charity Operations Audit - Jason Dykes and Clare Flood
12:00-12:20 Animated internally proportional stacked graphs: a visual method for observing spatiotemporal categorical changes - Rob Edsall
  lunch
13:30-13:50 Seeing through small multiple map displays – Sara Fabrikant
13:50-14:10 Visual geoanalytics of the ecological vulnerability of the Finnish shores of Gulf of Finland to oil accidents - Ari Jolma, Teemu Kokkonen, Taina Ihatsu (see also http://geoinformatics.tkk.fi/twiki/bin/view/Main/DevelopingVisualGeoanalyticToolsForEnvironmentalManagement
14:10-14:30 A softGIS-methodology for collecting and analysing data about residents’ perceived
living environment - Maarit Kahila (see also paper)
   
14:30-16:00 demo's
16:00-17:00 report / discussion visualization summit (July 3 Zuerich)
  cruise
FRIDAY  
09:00-09:20 Visual error detection in geocoded point data - Jukka Matthias Krisp, Terhi Ahola, Olga Spatenkova (see also: http://users.tkk.fi/~jkrisp/VIS_ws_HEL07/Draft_KrispAholaSpatenkova_Visual.pdf )
09:20-09:40 A GIS-based Module for Training and Visualization of Self-Organizing Maps -
Martin Lacayo & André Skupin (see also paper)
09:40-10:00 Explore temporal questions in “Time-space" -Xia Li & Menno-Jan Kraak
   
10:10-10:30 Mediating potential users of a geovisualization application to geovisualization experts using a scenario - David Lloyd & Jason Dykes (see also: http://vega.soi.city.ac.uk/~at775/Helsinki/ )
10:30-10:50 The role of relevance and cognition in attention-guiding geovisualisation - Olivier Swienty & Tumasch Reichenbacher (see also http://129.187.175.5/publications/swienty/HELSINKI_DRAFT_SwientyReichenbacher.pdf
10:50-11:10 The GeoEX Portal: Web-Based Dissemination of Geovisual Analytic Results -
Anthony C. Robinson, Etien Koua, Frank Hardisty, and Alan M. MacEachren (see also paper)
   
11:20-11:40 Comparative Visual Analysis Of “Cartography” Using Network-Based And Content-Based Approaches - André Skupin & Wyson J. Pang
11:40-12:00 Developing geo-temporal context from implicit sources with Geovisual Analytics - Brian Tomaszewski (see also paper)
12:00-12:20  
  lunch
13:30-16:00 discussions
   

Where:
http://www.tkk.fi/Current/otaniemi_map.html The hotel Radisson SAS in which most of you stay is very close to the number 28 (sport hall), on the coast.The workshop will be held in the main building (nr. 1) at the Department of Surveying. The walk from the hotel takes ca. 7 minutes.

Getting there
The airport is located about 15 km (15-20 minutes by taxi) from Otaniemi. The taxi cost is around 25 €. There are bus connections to Otaniemi from the down town Helsinki, if you prefer to take a bus to Helsinki from airport. Buses leave from Kamppi, and for example buses 102 and 103 (several others as well) come to Otaniemi. http://www.tkk.fi/Current/getting_to_otaniemi.html

Cost
We will charge you 30 € for the lunches, coffees and the boat trip including lunch. We are sponsered by: Finnish National Land Survey, ESRI Finland Ltd, Karttakone Ltd and Karttakeskus Ltd.

Lunch
Lunches will be served in Dipoli building (nr. 19). Coffee breaks we organize just next to the lecture hall (hall M1 in the 2nd floor, at the Department of Surveying).

Cruise
The boat (called Ilves, Eng. Lynx) |http://www.vekaline.fi/ilves.htm. We will go to an island called Iso Vasikkasaari (Big Calf Island) and have a dinner in Restaurant Gula Villan. We will be back around 23:00. http://www.saunaship.com/index.php?show=ravintola%20gula%20villan

Moscow
On the next day, the 3rd of August those who decided to take the train to Moscow, will depart around 5 pm from Otaniemi. The train leaves at 18.27 and it will arrive in Moscow in the morning, around 8.25). The cabins are of 1st class, with 2 beds (but take into account that the train is still not luxury. However it is the easiest way to travel to Moscow!

The train ticket is 105 € (one way) + visa costs.  In case you did not yet book the train ticket, please do it as soon as possible. The booking is open until the end of June. After that it can be difficult to get a ticket.

Only in the questions with traveling to Moscow by Tolstoi train, I ask you to contact the travel agency and Mr. Kirill Konovets, Lähialuematkat/ Oy Russian Tours Ltd Vuorimiehenkatu 3 00140 HELSINKI puh. +358 9 6689 5731 fax +358 9 6689 5750 kirill.konovets@russiantours.fi , www.lahialuematkat.fi Please, remember to make your bookings directly with the travel agency.