Organizers

The workshop is organized by:

Anthony Robinson – Director of Online Geospatial Education programs and Assistant Director for the Department of Geography’s GeoVISTA research center at Penn State. His research focuses on the science of interface and interaction design for geographic visualization software tools. He has developed interface derobinsonsign and usability assessment methods for integrating geographic visualization tools with work in epidemiology, crisis management, and homeland security. He directs Penn State’s Online Geospatial Education, including its Master of GIS and Post-Baccalaureate GIS Certificate programs, which have served over 6000 students since 1999. He also teaches Maps and the Geospatial Revolution, a MOOC that has enrolled over 125,000 students from 200 countries to date. He is chair of the ICA commission on Visual Analytics.
Antoni Moore – Associate Professor in Geographical Information Science at the School of Surveying, University of Otago. Tony’s research interests includantonimooree; visualization in space and time, geospatial interfaces (including augmented and virtual reality environments), applications of geovisual analytics, and compu
tational approaches to cartography. His current research projects focus on the intersections between art, cartography, and big data.