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Distinction award for Nico Neureiter
Our PhD student Nico Neureiter, whose project was funded by the URPP Language and Space, has received the distinction award of the Faculty of Science of UZH for his thesis, entitled "Travelling with speakers through time and space: Spatio-temporal modelling of language change”
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DSI Community Mobility Research Workshop
From 30 June - 1 July 2022, the DSI Community Mobility Research Workshop on "Mobility and Digitalization" organized by Hoda Allahbakhshi, Liudmila Zavolokina, and Anja Schulze took place in Maienfeld.
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Defense Nico Neureiter
Travelling with speakers through time and space: Spatio-temporal modelling of language change
Celebrating the successful defense of the PhD thesis of Nico Neureiter, funded by the University Research Priority Program “Language and Space”. -
Defense Zhiyong Zhou
Hierarchical Modeling of Indoor Spaces: Towards Route Communication at Multiple Levels of Detail for Navigation in Buildings
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Detecting contact in language trees
Want to find hidden contact in language history? A new paper by @NicoNeureiter et al. presents contacTrees, a phylogenetic model with horizontal transfer. -
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The dialect chain of the Timor-Alor-Pantar language family
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Linguistic traits as heritable units? Spatial Bayesian clustering reveals Swiss German dialect regions
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Featured Paper
Gone with the wind? How small birds move to the wintering grounds
To protect endangered migratory birds, we need to know their flight paths. But some birds are too small to carry a GPS tracker. By combining light, activity and wind measurements, their most likely route can be accurately estimated.
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CaGIS Rising grant program
Eun-Kyeong Kim, postdoc
in our GIS Unit,
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Featured Paper
Choose your own route!
A new navigation system lets pedestrians decide for themselves which route to take in a given area. In this way, they can better acquire spatial knowledge and have a lot of fun during navigation
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New SNSF project DeepGeneralization
Utilizing Deep Learning in Map Generalization
Robert Weibel (PI), Cheng Fu (Co-PI), Zhiyong Zhou (postdoc) -
New Employees
We are happy to welcome three new PhD students to our team:
Han Changyu
Georgescu Alexandra
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Predicting individuals' car accident risk by trajectory, driving events, and geographical context
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
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HiVG: A hierarchical indoor visibility-based graph for navigation guidance in multi-storey buildings
Environment and Urban Systems, 93:101751
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Recognition of group patterns in geological maps by building similarity networks
Geocarto International, 37(2):607-626
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Choose your own route – supporting pedestrian navigation without restricting the user to a predefined route
Cartography and Geographic Information Science
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DSI Insights
Mobilität und Digitalisierung
Inside ITDigitale Technologien können dabei helfen, sich im Alltag mehr und öfter zu bewegen sowie zu einer Reduktion der Gesundheitskosten beizutragen.
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New Publication
Assessing the Transferability of Physical Activity Type Detection Models: Influence of Age Group Is Underappreciated
Front. Physiol.,
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Measuring Polycentricity: A Whole Graph Embedding Perspective
UC Santa Barbara: Center for Spatial Studies.
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When computers write stories
There are about 7000 natural languages in the world, and four of them in Switzerland alone. Computers nowadays can artificially produce natural sentences and whole stories. Take the test and write your own story together with a computer.
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Featured Paper
Exploring correlations in genetic and cultural variation across language families in northeast Asia
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Contact-tracing in cultural evolution: a Bayesian mixture model to detect geographic areas of language contact
The latest paper in Royal Society INTERFACE by Peter Ranacher, Nico Neureiter, -
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Indoor landmark selection for route communication: the influence of route-givers’ social roles and receivers’ familiarity with the environment
Spatial Cognition & Computation
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Familiarity-dependent computational modelling of indoor landmark selection for route communication: a ranking approach
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
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Value of incorporating geospatial information into the prediction of on-street parking occupancy – A case study
Geo-spatial Information Science
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How to make health care service provision more equitable and greener
Big mobility data are being generated on a daily basis. How can they help to make road transportation greener, safer, and accessibility to services such as health care more equitable? Within the Horizon2020 project Track&Know we have developed big data technology and demonstration studies.
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New Publication
Dynamic optimization models for displaying outdoor advertisement at the right time and place
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
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Adaptive simplification of GPS trajectories with geographic context – a quadtree-based approach
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
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