Call for Papers

Designing Map-based Interfaces and Interactions (MAPII 2023)
INTERACT 2023 Workshop
28 August 2023
York, UK [and in remote or hybrid mode if necessary]
Workshop: http://avcd.aalto.fi/mapii2023/
INTERACT 2023: https://interact2023.org

Submission deadline: May 29, 2023

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

Maps, in their many forms, have long been used to guide and coordinate different human activities, ranging from local to global, and small scale to large scale. As such, maps continue to play a central role as the basis for a wide variety of interactive tools and applications in our modern digital age as well. This workshop aims to bring together researchers, designers and practitioners interested in maps and map-like visualizations as the underlying physical, theoretical, or metaphorical framework for designing interfaces and interactions. This workshop will create a common ground and a collaborative space for sharing design, research, and practical expertise to aid its participants with creating novel future map-based designs in different fields, including visualization, visual design, interaction design, user interface design, and cartography.

This workshop is part of INTERACT 2023, and is supported by the IFIP TC 13 Working Group on Human-Centred Technology for Sustainability.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The primary objective of this workshop is to create common ground and a collaborative space for sharing design, research, and practical expertise, practices, learnings, and experiences to help its participants with creating novel future map-based designs in different fields, including visualization, visual design, interaction design, user interface design, and cartography.

Prospective workshop participants are invited to submit a short paper describing their interests and work related to the topics of this workshop. Some of the main topics to be covered by this workshop will include, but not limited to, the following:

• Research and design foundations of map-based interfaces and interactions.
• Theories, principles and practices guiding the design of map-based interfaces and interactions.
• Applications of map-based interfaces and interactions, in areas such environment, sustainability, epidemiology, healthcare, education, and entertainment.
• User evaluations of map-based interfaces and interactions.

WORKSHOP STRUCTURE

This one-day workshop will be informal and interactive, combining short presentations of the accepted workshop papers with group discussions, aimed at assisting the authors and other participants with developing their research and design ideas. The workshop will also include a hands-on group activity. As part of this, the workshop participants will work in small groups to perform map-based tasks and create design sketches for an interactive application. The designs will then be shared at the main conference.

We hope to run the workshop in person at the conference. Provisions will, however, be made to run the workshop in remote or hybrid mode if necessary.

SUBMISSIONS

Workshop paper submissions should be of maximum 10 pages, and prepared according to the Springer LNCS format, using the templates provided for CS Proceedings and other Multiauthor Volumes (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).

Submissions should be made through Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mapii2023.

The workshop programme committee will review the submitted position papers, and select 10-15 papers for presentation at the workshop based on their quality and relevance to the workshop topics.

In addition to sharing the accepted workshop papers with its participants, the authors will be invited to submit extended version of their papers for inclusion in an edited volume, to be published by INTERACT 2023 organizers. Furthermore, the workshop will include a discussion session on future publications in, for instance, a special issue of an international journal and/or a co-authored report for dissemination of the workshop findings.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 29 May 2023
Notification: 05 June 2023
Camera-ready: 26 June 2023
Workshop date: 28 August 2023

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Masood Masoodian, Aalto University (Finland)
Saturnino Luz, University of Edinburgh (UK)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Saturnino Luz, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Masood Masoodian, Aalto University (Finland)
Shane Sheehan, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Artemis Skarlatidou, University College London (UK)
Thomas Rist, Augsburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany)