GIVA@ICC 2025 - Vancouver, Canada
The 32nd International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2025), with the theme "Mapping the Future: Innovation, Inclusion, and Sustainability", was held in Vancouver, Canada, from August 17-22, 2025. The ICC is a biennial international conference series and brings together researchers, educators, practitioners, and national mapping agencies working in the field of cartography. The GIVA group members attended ICC 2025, where they presented the following work:

- Armand Kapaj presented the talk "Landmark Visualization on Navigation Aids: Effects on Spatial Learning and Long-Term Memory Retention," at the pre-conference workshop Spatial Representations and Thinking in Navigation: A Cognitive Perspective, co-organized with Toru Ishikawa (Toyo University, Japan).
- Armand Kapaj presented the paper "Virtual landmark cues improve spatial learning: evidence from an augmented reality indoor navigation study," co-authored by Aleksei Ilchenko, Armand Kapaj, Tumasch Reichenbacher, and Sara Irina Fabrikant.
- Armand Kapaj presented the paper "From maps in the head to maps in the hand: how does environmental familiarity influence pedestrian navigators’ mobile map use behavior?" co-authored by Qi Ying, Christopher Hilton, Armand Kapaj, and Sara Irina Fabrikant.
- Tumasch Reichenbacher presented the paper "A Comparison of Hand-Held AR and VR for On-Site Assessment of Construction Projects," co-authored by Marcel Garate, Tumasch Reichenbacher, and Armand Kapaj.