Science Communication - Human Sensors How user-generated data can be used for citizen-centric urban planning B Background Participatory, citizen-centered planning processes are a necessary, but still less acknowledged approach in the development of urban and spatial planning. The proactive involvement of citizens, coupled with the latest technological processes, in these planning activities [...]
Twitter Geo-Epidemiological Feasibility Study Improving epidemiological models by adding spatial and semantic information derived from social media data M Methods Extracting Twitter posts that mention influenza, yellow fever, cholera, Ebola, and other diseases for 12 countries in Africa. Creating basic statistics like the number of tweets per capita per week per country [...]
integrated Digital Earth Applications and Science lab B Background The iDEAS:lab is an interactive laboratory for research-based learning at all levels, geoinformatics experiments and the general public. Equipped with innovative Digital Earth technologies, the focus is on the interface between real and virtual worlds. The iDEAS:lab offers modules that make Digital Earth [...]
B Background Women and men still differ greatly in their in their employment biographies and in their choice of occupational occupational fields: STEM-related training paths and especially branches with technical and digital content are still chosen by a majority of male candidates. This situation is due to the persistent existence of traditional role [...]
MINT:labs MINT:labs for the Science City Itzling B Background In recent years, Science City Itzling has developed into a nationally recognized location in the fields of chemistry, physics, materials research, computer science, human-computer interaction, data science and geoinformatics, with strengths both in basic research and in applications. The aggregation of important institutions from [...]
Provide a theoretical foundation for the first law of geography through proximity-similarity relationships, and quantify neighbourhood boundaries and of hierarchical relationships between intra-urban neighbourhoods
Urbanes Mobilitätslabor B Background The initiative Urban Mobility Laboratories (UML) of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit) supports the creation of novel, experimental environments in which innovative mobility and transport solutions can be researched, tested and implemented by science and industry together with citizens, politics and administration as well as other stakeholder [...]
Malawi Atlas Malawi Disaster Management Portal The MalawiAtlas is a web portal that visualizes geospatial data in the context of disaster management. It contains various layers containing UAV images, demographic data, lancover and natural hazards. It also has a print functionality that enables the user to export PDFs of the viewed map. Furthermore it [...]
SINUS Sensor Integration for Urban Risk Prediction B Background The project ‘SINUS’ (Sensor Integration for Urban Risk Prediction) explores the feasibility of matching wearable physiological sensors with data interfaces of urban data ecosystems for improving the current state of the art of predicting risk patterns for vulnerable road users in urban road networks. [...]
Music Map B Background Music is bound to space and time, i.e. it is played, sung, created, heard, practiced, imparted, taught etc. at a certain place at a certain time. Within the framework of the Salzburg Music Map, an extensive data collection on the spatio-temporal distribution of music and musical practices in the city [...]
