Program
The program booklet is available as PDF here.
Day 0, Wednesday | |
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19:00 – 21:00 | Self-paid welcome dinner and drinks at Wieden Bräu (Optional) |
Day 1, Thursday | |
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08:30 – 08:55 | Registration |
08:55 – 09:00 | Opening and Welcome |
09:00 – 11:35 | Session 1: Usability Testing |
09:00 – 09:35 | Position paper: Schematic map design: from performance to preference? |
09:35 – 10:00 | East or West? Map Design and Passenger Path Decisions on Mass Transit Networks |
10:00 – 10:35 | Position paper: Us versus them: Ensuring practical and psychological utility of measures of schematic map usability |
10:35 – 10:45 | Breakout activity: Next steps in usability testing (Part 1) |
10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
11:15 – 11:35 | Breakout activity: Next steps in usability testing (Part 2) |
11:35 – 12:45 | Session 2: Schematic Mapping in the Real World |
11:35 – 12:10 | Position paper: Transferring maps into the digital age – the case of Wiener Linien |
12:10 – 12:45 | Breakout activity: Experiences and challenges in bridging research and practice |
12:45 – 14:15 | Lunch Break |
14:15 – 15:45 | Session 3: Automation (Part 1) |
14:15 – 14:50 | Position paper: A Survey on Computing Schematic Network Maps: The Challenge to Interactivity |
14:50 – 15:15 | Drawing k-linear Metro Maps [arXiv] |
15:15 – 15:45 | Software demonstrations |
15:45 – 16:15 | Coffee Break |
16:15 – 17:15 | Open Mic and Poster Teasers |
16:15 – 17:00 | Open mic presentations |
17:00 – 17:15 | Teaser presentations for accepted posters and designs
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Optional Guided City Walk | |
18:30 – 22:00 | Poster Exhibition and Workshop Dinner (Wiener Linien U2xU5 Information Center) |
Day 2, Friday | |
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09:00 – 10:15 | Session 4: Automation (Part 2) |
09:00 – 09:35 | Position paper: Algorithmically-Assisted Metro Map Design |
09:35 – 10:15 | Breakout activity: Hopes and limitations for automated schematic mapping |
10:15 – 10:45 | Coffee Break |
10:45 – 12:15 | Session 5: Schematics Beyond Public Transit Networks |
10:45 – 11:20 | Position paper: Wayfinding Through Orientation: Schematizing Landmark, Route and Survey Information in a Single Map |
11:20 – 11:45 | Route Schematization With Polygonal Landmarks |
11:45 – 12:15 | Breakout activity: Metro maps as a metaphor |
12:15 – 13:45 | Lunch |
13:45 – 14:00 | Open Mic |
13:45 – 14:00 | Open Mic Presentations |
14:00 – 15:35 | Session 6: History of Schematic Mapping |
14:00 – 14:35 | Position paper: On the history of schematic maps: from ancient times to 1900 |
14:35 – 15:00 | Sydney’s Suburban and City Underground Railway Map No1, 1939: an investigation |
15:00 – 15:35 | Position paper: The Decade of Diagrams |
15:35 – 16:00 | Farewell |
16:30 – 18:00 | Optional Guided Visit to the Austrian National Library to see the Tabula Peutingeriana |
Previous Workshop
The program and presentations of the first Schematic Mapping Workshop can be downloaded from the workshop webpage. This was held in 2014 at the University of Essex, UK.