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Planned series of sessions on cognitive visualization issues at the ICC 2015 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 23-28, 2015.
Planned 2-day pre-conference workshop in Curitiba (BRA), at the Paraná Federal University (UFPR), Aug. 20-21, 2015, just before ICC in Rio, Aug. 23-28, 2015; in conjunction with the ICA Commissions on Geovisualization and Use and User Issues (UUI). The workshop call and registration information for both workshops is available here. Direct access to content of W1: Designing and Conducting User Studies & W2: Envisioning the Future of Cartographic Research.

Paper sessions on Cognition, Behavior, and Design at the Association of the American Geographers (AAG) Annnual Meeting, Chicago (IL), Apr. 21-25, 2015.

Paper sessions on Cognition, Behavior, Representation at the Association of the American Geographers (AAG) Annnual Meeting, Tampa (FL), Apr. 8-12, 2014.
Commission meeting and conference in Olomouc (CZ), Feb. 25-28, 2014; in conjunction with the ICA Commissions on Use and User Issues (UUI) and National and Regional Atlases. Slides of the commission meeting are here.

Photo: Viktor Cap, © 2014

Pre-conference workshop on Eye Tracking at ICC Dresden, Aug. 25-30, 2013; in conjunction with the ICA Commissions on Geovisualization (Geovis) and Use and User Issues (UUI). Workshop program and materials are here. Information on the data challenge is here (CogVis), here (Geovis), and here (UUI).
Photo: Kristien Ooms, © 2013
A series of sessions on cognitive visualization issues at the ICC 2013 in Dresden. These papers were selected from a record number of submissions. Check out the ICC 2013 conference program here. Notes from the CogVis business meeting are available here.

Paper sessions on Cognition, Behavior, Representation at the Association of the American Geographers (AAG) Annnual Meeting, Los Angeles, Apr. 9-13, 2013.
Workshop GeoViz 2013: Interactive Maps that Help People Think, Hamburg, Mar. 6-8, 2013. in conjunction with the ICA Commissions on Geovisualization. Workshop materials are available online, and graphc impressions from the workshop are here. Selected submissions were invited for consideration in a special issue of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS).
Photo: Geovis Hamburg 2013 organizers, © 2013

Panel on Cartography & GIScience on Sep. 18., the overlapping day of AutoCarto / GIScience, exploring future research questions / research challenges with international scholars from Cartography, GIScience, Information Science, and Cognitive Science. The panel will be followed by the GIScience Welcome reception. Further information about the event can be found here.

Photo: Eric Anderson, © 2012
Pre-conference workshop on Experimental Methods at AutoCarto (Sep. 16-18) / GIScience (Sep. 18-21), back-to-back and co-located in Columbus (OH, USA), Sep. 16-21, 2012; in conjunction with the ICA Commission on Use and User Issues. Call for participation can be found here and the workshop program is available here.

Photo: Kristien Ooms, © 2012
The Workshop consisted of 4 modules:
.. Module 1a | Methods and techniques of use, user and usability research in geo-information processing and dissemination
(Kristien Ooms & Corné van Elzakker)
.. Module 1b | Improving the usability of pedestrian navigation systems (Ioannis Delikostidis & Corné van Elzakker)
.. Module 2 | Designing your user study or experiment (Amy Griffin)
.. Module 3 | Research instrument integrity (Amy Lobben)
.. Module 4 | Working with the card sorting method (Robert Roth)
Please cite these materials appropriately should you peruse them in any form.

Association of the American Geographers (AAG) Annnual Meeting, New York, NY, Feb. 24-28, 2012. Seven paper sessions on Cognition, Behavior, Representation.
Two sessions, one on "Design and Color" and a second on "People and Design" are co-hosted with the ICA Commission on Map Design.
One interactive short-paper session will feature eleven research agenda setting 5-minute talks, aimed at beginning community discussions about the directions of the Commission's research work over the next four years.

Cognitive Science Society Annual Conference (COGSCI) 2011, Boston (MA, USA), Jul. 20-23, 2011.
Invited Symposium on Everyday Cognitive Science: Using the methods of cognitive science to explore spatial thinking in related disciplines and special focus on spatial cognition. See digital proceedings here.