Participants and Focus

Built on the success of previous conferences in this series, LBS 2020 is addressed to scholars and researchers, digital industry / market operators, and students of different backgrounds (scientific, engineering and humanistic) whose work is either focused on or relevant to location based services (LBS). The conference will offer a common ground to colleagues from various disciplines and practice where they can meet, interact and exchange knowledge, experience, plans and ideas on how LBS can and could be improved and on how it will influence both science and society.

Topics

We invite contributions in the following areas (but not limited to):

    Ubiquitous positioning and Navigation
        Outdoor and indoor positioning
        Multi-sensor system and sensor fusion
        Seamless (indoor-outdoor) navigation
        Simultaneous Localisation And Mapping (SLAM)
    Spatial Cognition and sense of place
        Sense of direction and self-orientation
        Cognitive navigation
        Landmark-based localisation and navigation
    New forms of location data
        Location-based social media and Geotagged big data
        Crowdsourced and volunteered geographic information (VGI)
        Mobile data and activity analysis
    Contextual information and context-awareness
        Smart environments and ambient intelligence
        Indoor spatial data modelling and mapping
        Semantic data models for LBS
        Context modelling, personalisation and context-aware adaptation
    Mobile user interface and interaction
        Visualisation techniques for LBS
        Mobile human-computer interaction
        Augmented and virtual reality 
    User studies and evaluation
        Evaluation methodologies for LBS
        User experiences of LBS
        Mobile spatial cognition
    Social and behavioural implications of LBS
        Location privacy
        Legal and ethical aspects in LBS
        Biases in location data analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
    Innovative LBS and applications
        Smart cities and transportation
        Autonomous and connected vehicles
        Artificial intelligence and LBS
        Mobile healthcare
        Location based social networks and games
        Digital humanities
    Ubiquitous Mapping in Early Warning and Crisis Management (co-organised by the ICA Commission on CEW & CM)
        Emergency oriented indoor and outdoor integrated positioning
        Emergency oriented ubiquitous and adaptive mapping
        Dynamic and real-time cartographic visualisation and processing