Social Computing for Geographic Information Science
A special issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (ISSN 2220-9964).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 26718
Special Issue Editors
Interests: social computing; human-computer interaction; multimodal and natural language processing; user-centered interaction design
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Interests: social informatics; social computing; human-machine interaction; multimodal interaction; sketch-based interfaces; multimedia applications; user modelling; knowledge bases; spatial data; geographic information systems; responsible research and innovation
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Interests: social informatics; social computing; data and knowledge bases; human-machine interaction; user-machine natural interaction; user modelling; visual interaction; sketch-based interfaces; geographic information systems; medical informatics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Geographic information science is experiencing new and unprecedented challenges linked to the increasing use of location-based social networks and the generation of huge amounts of social geo-located data from mobile sensing devices. Since geo-social technologies are rapidly advancing, there is an urgent need to understand and analyze the interplay between geographic information science and social computing in order to design new approaches for collecting, representing, understanding, managing, learning, interacting, and reasoning about social geographic information.
This Special Issue is dedicated to exploring current trends, research challenges, and opportunities related to geographic information science through the lens of social computing, from a threefold perspective: (1) theoretical, by exploring how to develop new conceptual frameworks for effectively fusing geographic and social information for representing and understanding geo-social relationships networks; (2) computational, by investigating how to innovatively use social computing techniques for geographic information science issues, including making spatial data more accessible, creating user-friendly environments for interacting with this data, and analyzing and reasoning on big social sensing data; (3) applicative, by understanding how the analysis of social geo-located data can be applied to various human activity domains, including languages, political elections, emotion recognition, disaster management, smart cities, and the spreading of disease.
We call for original contributions from a wide range of cross-disciplinary and collaborative domain knowledge related to geographic information science and social computing, such as cognitive science, information science, computer science, linguistics, and social science.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Social media geographic information analytics
- Social sensing and spatiotemporal data
- Collecting, processing, interpreting, and visualizing social sensing data
- Volunteered geographic information (VGI) management
- Location-based social networks
- Modeling geo-social interactions
- Collaborative interactions with geographic information
- Sentiment analysis approaches for social sensing data
- Geographic human–computer interaction
Dr. Patrizia Grifoni
Dr. Fernando Ferri
Guest Editor
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