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A team from UZH and the Swiss Ornithological Institute studied how migratory birds cross the Swiss Alps for the first time using year-round radar measurements: migration intensities, flight altitudes, speeds and directions were monitored. It turned out that migratory birds use the Alpine valleys and adjacent passes as passages. This has important implications for the protection of migratory birds in the Swiss Alps, as valleys and pass crossings are also potential sites for wind turbines.
High-intensity bird migration along Alpine valleys calls for protective measures against anthropogenically induced avian mortality
Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
Using machine learning and data enrichment in the selection of roads for small-scale maps Cartography and Geographic Information Science
Keeping walls straight: data model and training set size matter for deep learning in building generalization
Cartography and Geographic Information Science
A warm welcome to our latest team member, Guojian Zou. Guojian is a visiting PhD candidate from Tongji University, Shanghai, China and will be staying with us until the end of Octobre 2024, funded by the China Scholarship Council.
The effect of large scale photovoltaic-based projects on poverty reduction: Empirical evidence from China
Renewable Energy
Das Leben auch im Alter aktiv zu gestalten, hält gesund. Die MOASIS-Studie der UZH erforscht, wie sich ältere Menschen verhalten und wie sich das auf ihre Fitness und ihr Wohlbefinden auswirkt. Da zeigt sich: Wer rastet, der rostet.
The last day of August marked a momentous occasion as we unveiled "ZuriACT (Zurich Accessible CiTy) – Towards a More Accessible and Inclusive City" at Switzerland's largest science festival, Scientifica 2023.
People with limited mobility have to deal with numerous obstacles in Zurich. ZüriACT, a joint project of UZH and the city of Zurich, aims to tackle this issue and make the city more accessible. Learn about the project at this year’s Scientifica festival.
Welcome to our latest team member Nour Efrat-Kowalski. Nour will be further strengthening our focus on Language and Space, working as on her postdoctoral project "The Roots of Language Structure: Environmental triggers of linguistic evolution", which is funded by the UZH Postdoc Grant program and linked to our ongoing project Glottography.
Our latest publication formulates building simplification in vector maps as a joint task of node removal and node movement and presents a multi-task learning approach with a graph convolutional neural network to effectively enable automatic building simplification.
Our former MSc students Nicolas Beglinger and Jan Winkler have both been awarded the swisstopoEDU recognition award of CHF 1,000 for their outstanding work on cartographic generalisation using deep learning techniques. Congratulations! Well done!
A conceptual framework for developing dashboards for big mobility data
Cartography and Geographic Information Science
Advances and challenges in sensor-based research in mobility, health, and placeHealth & Place
Volume 79, January 2023, 102972
A warm welcome to our new team member Takuya Takahashi. Takuya will be working as a postdoc on the Out of Asia project and is also a recipient of an Overseas Research Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JSPS.
Charting everyday activities in later life: Study protocol of the mobility, activity, and social interactions study (MOASIS)
Frontiers in Psychology
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GPS-Derived Daily Mobility and Daily Well-Being in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Gerontology
From January 30 - February 1, 2023: This workshop brings together scholars working on population history from the disciplines of linguistics, genetics, geography, and anthropology.
A warm welcome to our latest team member, Jingyi ZHOU. Jingyi is a visiting PhD candidate from Nanjing Normal University, China and will be staying with us until the end of 2023, funded by the China Scholarship Council.
Timed up-and-go performance is associated with objectively measured life space in patients 3 months after ischemic stroke
Journal of Neurology (2022)
How to make the city smarter and more inclusive with and for citizens?
Recently we won a new Citizen Science project in collaboration with the City of Zurich starting in 2023.
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”
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.
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”.
Hierarchical Modeling of Indoor Spaces: Towards Route Communication at Multiple Levels of Detail for Navigation in Buildings
Huang, Ghent University / Weibel
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.
The dialect chain of the Timor-Alor-Pantar language family
Language Dynamics and Change
Linguistic traits as heritable units? Spatial Bayesian clustering reveals Swiss German dialect regions
Journal of Linguistic Geography
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.
Eun-Kyeong Kim, postdoc
in our GIS Unit,
has received funding from
the Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS)
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
Utilizing Deep Learning in Map Generalization
Robert Weibel (PI), Cheng Fu (Co-PI), Zhiyong Zhou (postdoc)
We are happy to welcome three new PhD students to our team:
Han Changyu
Georgescu Alexandra
Hirschhofer Simon
Predicting individuals' car accident risk by trajectory, driving events, and geographical context
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
https://doi.org/
HiVG: A hierarchical indoor visibility-based graph for navigation guidance in multi-storey buildings
Environment and Urban Systems, 93:101751
https://doi.org/
Recognition of group patterns in geological maps by building similarity networks
Geocarto International, 37(2):607-626
https://doi.org/
Choose your own route – supporting pedestrian navigation without restricting the user to a predefined route
Cartography and Geographic Information Science
https://doi.org/
Mobilität und Digitalisierung
Inside IT
Digitale Technologien können dabei helfen, sich im Alltag mehr und öfter zu bewegen sowie zu einer Reduktion der Gesundheitskosten beizutragen.
Assessing the Transferability of Physical Activity Type Detection Models: Influence of Age Group Is Underappreciated
Front. Physiol.,
https://doi.org/
Measuring Polycentricity: A Whole Graph Embedding Perspective
UC Santa Barbara: Center for Spatial Studies.
https://doi.org/
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.
Exploring correlations in genetic and cultural variation across language families in northeast Asia
Science Advance
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,
Indoor landmark selection for route communication: the influence of route-givers’ social roles and receivers’ familiarity with the environment
Spatial Cognition & Computation
https://doi.org/
Familiarity-dependent computational modelling of indoor landmark selection for route communication: a ranking approach
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
https://doi.org/
Value of incorporating geospatial information into the prediction of on-street parking occupancy – A case study
Geo-spatial Information Science
https://doi.org/
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.
Dynamic optimization models for displaying outdoor advertisement at the right time and place
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
https://doi.org/
Adaptive simplification of GPS trajectories with geographic context – a quadtree-based approach
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
https://doi.org/
