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