16.06.2025GIVA at AGILE 2025, Dresden, Germany - Best Short Paper Award, Presented Papers, and more!

This year’s 28th AGILE conference (AGILE 2025) was held in Dresden, Germany, June 10-13, 2025, and focused on how Geographic Information Science (GIScience) is responding to Global Challenges. This theme fits the GIVA group’s research vision and mission perfectly, and we presented the following:

GIVA at AGILE 2025 - Qi Ying receives the Best Short Paper Award

Qi Ying, Christopher Hilton, Armand Kapaj, and Sara Irina Fabrikant received the AGILE 2025 Best Short Paper Award for Qi Ying's PhD research "The development of landmark, route, and survey knowledge through repeated mobile map-assisted navigation episodes.” Congratulations! Read the paper here: https://doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-6-50-2025.
Sara Irina Fabrikant presented the paper "The effect of vertical façade greenery in virtual urban environments on human emotion," co-authored by Delia Lendenmann and Sara Irina Fabrikant. Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-6-34-2025.
Sara Irina Fabrikant presented the already-published article in the Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science journal in 2024, titled "The positive effect of blue luminescent pathways on urban park visitor’s affective states: A virtual reality online study measuring facial expressions and self-reports," co-authored by Sara Lanini-Maggi, Martin Lanz, Christopher Hilton, and Sara Irina Fabrikant. Read the full journal article here: https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083241239383.
Armand Kapaj presented, at the pre-conference workshop Geo xR (co-roganized by Sara Irina Fabrikant), the already-published article in the Cartography and Geographic Information Science journal in 2025, titled "Unlocking context-aware mobile map adaptation: a VR navigation user study," co-authored by Mona Bartling, Armand Kapaj, Bingjie Cheng, Zhengfang Xu, Amy L. Griffin, and Sara Fabrikant. Read the full journal article here: https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2025.2512075.

AGILE 2025 Awards

Qi Ying, Christopher Hilton, Armand Kapaj, and Sara Irina Fabrikant received the AGILE 2025 Best Short Paper Award for the paper "The development of landmark, route, and survey knowledge through repeated mobile map-assisted navigation episodes.” Congratulations!
AGILE 2025 Paper Presentations

Qi Ying presenting her research paper which received with the Best Short Paper Award.
AGILE 2025 Paper Presentations

Sara Irina Fabrikant presenting the paper "The effect of vertical façade greenery in virtual urban environments on human emotion."
AGILE 2025 Paper Presentations

Sara Irina Fabrikant presenting the journal article "The positive effect of blue luminescent pathways on urban park visitor’s affective states: A virtual reality online study measuring facial expressions and self-reports."
AGILE 2025 Pre-conference Workshop

Armand Kapaj, Qi Ying, and Sara Irina Fabrikant (co-organizer) attending the Geo xR pre-conference workshop.
AGILE 2025 Pre-conference Workshop

Armand Kapaj presenting the journal article "Unlocking context-aware mobile map adaptation: a VR navigation user study" at the Geo xR pre-conference workshop.
AGILE 2025 - Best Short Paper Session

Congratulations to Qi Ying, Annika Kunz, and Yelu He from the GIScience Units at the UZH - Department of Geography for being nominated for the Best Short Paper Competition Award.