Mobile Tartu 2014
Mobile Data, Geography, LBS
PhD Summer School and Conference
1-4 July 2014 in Tartu, Estonia
The aim of the event is to discuss theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of research using mobile data –derived from mobile phone or crowd-sourced social media – and explore practical applications of this data in geography and planning.
Mobile Tartu 2014 proposes special sessions on urban studies, social media, emergency management and LBS business models.
The conference is accompanied by an international PhD field experiment “Mobile Methods in Mobility Studies” on 1-2 July which is co-organized by the Doctoral School in Economics and Innovation.
Target Groups
The PhD summer school and conference targets researchers and doctoral students working on or interested in theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of mobile positioning, mobile phones and crowd-sourced social media. Those interest in the topic of mobile research from other fields – architects, city planners, mobile operators, emergency management analysts and ICT firms – are also welcome to contribute.
Call for Research Papers
– 28 February – deadline for submitting abstracts up to 300 words (send to mobiletartu@ut.ee)
– 15 March – acceptance notifications
– 20 June – deadline for submitting a full paper
A special issue(s) in a scientific journal cited in ISI Web of Science is planned to publish. The journal will be selected after receiving papers. The papers from Mobile Tartu 2008, 2010 and 2012 were published in the Journal of Urban Technology, the Journal of Location Based Services and Environment and Planning B.
After conference recommendation: Highlight of Estonian Culture, Estonian 26th Estonian Song and Dance Celebration 4-6 July 2014, Tallinn. BOOK YOUR TRIP EARLY!!!
Contacts of the organising committee:
E-mail: mobiletartu@ut.ee
Phone: +372-7-375077
Chair of Human Geography
University of Tartu
Vanemuise St. 46
51014 Tartu
Estonia
Homepage: http://mobilitylab.ut.ee/mobiletartu
Participation Fee (incl. materials, coffee breaks, conference dinner)
| Early Registration
(paid until March 31st 2014) |
Late Registration
(paid from April 1st 2014) |
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| Conference | ||
| Regular | 260 EUR | 320 EUR |
| Presenter | 200 EUR | 270 EUR |
| Student | 90 EUR | 120 EUR |
| Pre-Conference PhD Seminar | ||
| Regular | 90 EUR | 120 EUR |
| Presenter & student | 60 EUR | 80 EUR |
| Post-Conference Excursion to Tallinn (04.07) | 50 EUR | 80 EUR |
The registration is now open.
Register by clicking here.
An architect and engineer by training, Carlo Ratti practices in Italy and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the Senseable City Lab. He graduated from the Politecnico di Torino and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, and later earned his MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK. Ratti has co-authored over 200 publications and holds several patents. His work has been exhibited worldwide at venues such as the Venice Biennale, the Design Museum Barcelona, the Science Museum in London, GAFTA in San Francisco and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. His Digital Water Pavilion at the 2008 World Expo was hailed by Time Magazine as one of the Best Inventions of the Year. He has been included in Esquire Magazine’s Best and Brightest list, in Blueprint Magazine’s 25 People who will Change the World of Design and in Forbes Magazine’s People you need to know in 2011. Ratti was a presenter at TED 2011 and is serving as a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council for Urban Management. He is a regular contributor to the architecture magazine Domus and the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. He has also written as an op-ed contributor for BBC, La Stampa, Scientific American and The New York Times.
His main research interests are tourism and culture as tools for urban regeneration, models of hotel location, and tourism management policies in heritage cities. In recent years, he has begun to explore and write about the implementation of advanced tracking technologies in various areas of spatial research such as tourism urban studies and medicine.
His research and teaching focus on the intersection between geographic information science and transportation science. He wants to understand how people use mobility and communications technologies to allocate scarce time among activities in geographic space. He is also interested in the social dimensions of transportation, and the collective implications of human mobility and accessibility for sustainable transportation, livable communities and public health. His main approach to these questions is the development and application of GIS and spatial analytical techniques to extract information from fine-grained data on mobile objects and related spatio-temporal phenomena.
He has been involved in the measurement and modelling of travel behaviour for the last 25 years contributing especially to the literature on stated preferences, microsimulation of travel behaviour, valuation of travel time and its components, parking behaviour, activity scheduling and travel diary data collection. His current work focuses on the microsimulation of daily travel behaviour and long-term mobility choices and the response of the land-use system to those choices. This work is supported by analyses of human activity spaces and their dependence on the traveller’s personal social network.
He is lead scientist responsible for the visual analytics research at Fraunhofer IAIS and full professor (part-time) at City University London. He co-authored monographs “Exploratory Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Data” (Springer, 1996) and “Visual Analytics of Movement” (Springer, 2013), more than 60 peer-reviewed journal papers, 20 book chapters, and about 100 conference papers.
He is chairing the Commission on GeoVisualization of the ICA – International Cartographic Association (since 2007). Together with Natalia Andrienko, he co-organized scientific events on visual analytics, geovisualization and visual data mining, and co-edited 11 special issues of major journals.
For the past several years he has studied how the geoweb is produced (particularly the practices surrounding user-generated data) in order to better understand where, when, and by whom geo-coded content is being created. He focuses on how code, space and place interact as people increasingly use of mobile, digital technologies to navigate through their everyday, lived geographies. Of special interest is the complex and often duplicitous manner that code and content can congeal and individualize our experiences in the hybrid, digitally augmented places that cities are becoming. As an economic geographer he also studies how flows of material goods in the global economy are shaped by immaterial flows of information. His interest is in the range of ways in which material and virtual flows are intertwined: sometimes complementary, sometimes contradictory, but always central to the evolution of spatial relations in the economy.
Scientific Program Committee
Prof. Rein Ahas, University of Tartu
Prof. Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer IAIS and City University London
Prof. Kay Axhausen, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Prof. Vincent Blondel, The Université catholique de Louvain
Prof. Yanwei Chai, Peking University
Prof. Martin Dijst, Utrecht University
Prof. Prof Bob McKercher, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Prof. Georg Gärtner, Vienna University of Technology
Prof. Menno-Jan Kraak, University of Twente
Prof. Jukka Matthias Krisp, University of Augsburg
Prof. Mei-Po Kwan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Patrick Laube, University of Zürich
Mr. Michail Skaliotis, Eurostat
Prof. Yu Liu, Peking University
Prof. Harvey Miller, Ohio State University
Prof. Martin Raubal, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Prof. Noam Shoval, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Zbigniew Smoreda, Orange Lab
Prof. Tiit Tammaru, University of Tartu
CEO Margus Tiru, Positium LBS
Prof. Donggen Wang, Hong Kong Baptist University
Prof. Nico Van de Weghe, Ghent University
Prof. Robert Weibel, University of Zurich
Prof. Frank Witlox, Ghent University
Dr. Matthew A. Zook, University of Kentucky
Local Organising Committee
Rein Ahas (Chair), Department of Geography, University of Tartu (rein.ahas@ut.ee)
Ingrid Grigorjeva (Secretariat), Department of Geography, University of Tartu (mobiletartu@ut.ee)
Erki Saluveer, Positium LBS
Siiri Silm, Department of Geography, University of Tartu
Anto Aasa, Department of Geography, University of Tartu
Pre-conference PhD seminar: Järveveere holiday centre (55 km north-west from Tartu; organised bus from Tartu to the venue and back) http://www.jpk.ee/
Conference venue (Estonian Biocentre; Riia 23b-105, Tartu): E 26,7178975 N 58,3728873 http://tinyurl.com/nmjwwku
Conference dinner (02.07. at 20.00): (Ülikooli kohvik; Ülikooli 20, Tartu): E 26,7199870 N 58.3817242 http://tinyurl.com/k337umt
You can reach Tartu by flying to the local Tartu Airport or to the Tallinn Airport from where you can take a frequent bus to Tartu. Ask more arrival information from the organisers by sending an e-mail to mobiletartu@ut.ee.
Accommodation suggestions:
Hotel Antonius *****
Hotel London ****
Barclay Hotel ***
Dorpat Hotel ***
Hotel Park ***
Tartu Hostel
Please contact the organising committee if you have any questions.
Chair of Human Geography
University of Tartu
Vanemuise St. 46
51014 Tartu
Estonia
E-mail: mobiletartu@ut.ee
Phone: +372-7-375077
Fax: +372-7-375822
Homepage: mobilitylab.ut.ee
