The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from various fields to discuss trends in pervasive and ubiquitous geotechnology and geoinformation and their impact on the day-to-day application of geography by consumers and geo-friendly industries such as tourism and education.

Thanks to the rapid advancement of mobile technology and the increased prevalence of geographic data sets that have both global coverage and local detail, it has become possible to access and experience in new ways massive amounts of spatially relevant information about nearly anywhere in the world. In this workshop, we will discuss the issues (both human factors and engineering challenges) surrounding these context-aware systems. While we will include any research topic that relates either to geotechnology or geoinformation, we will focus on the theory behind and application of systems that successfully and rigorously combine the two. Furthermore, we will particularly highlight research that is able to combine the two in a manner that creates a value to the end user that is greater than the sum of the parts. Finally, we will also discuss broader questions related to pervasive and ubiquitous geotechnology and geoinformation. For instance, how will these new capabilities transform the way we experience the world around us? More importantly, how will they alter our interaction with geography? Also, how will the use of common consumer technologies (media players such as iPods, game systems like the PSP, multi-touch enabled mobile devices, etc.) change when these technologies become location-aware?

Some suggested topics for papers include:

• Context-aware mobile services
• Security, privacy and social factors of new geotechnologies and geoinformation
• New applications of geotechnology and geoinformation
• Spatial applications of Web 2.0 phenomena (Wikipedia text, Flickr photos, etc).
• Mobile map services for tourism
• Mobile map services for education
• Pervasive GI services
• Novel ubiquitous computing geo-applications
• Geo-services that address real human problems (e.g. emergency cases).
• Multi-modal, intelligent, collaborative and novice user interfaces for geo-applications
• Geo-services for community
• GIS interaction paradigms in ubiquitous computing
• Technologies to improve collection of volunteered geographic information
• Personalization and situation awareness of mobile GI services
• Semantics and ontologies in pervasive computing
• GIS sensors for mobile applications
• LBS, mobile GIS and more ...

Program committee

The workshop will have interdisciplinary appeal. We expect participation by scientists working in all areas covered by the conference, as well as those from other several disciplines (e.g. ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, human-computer interaction, mobile computing, computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, information visualization, psychology). We intend to take advantage of the disciplinary diversity at the workshop to begin a dialog and set the stage for future cooperation. Industry scientists and engineers working in application areas (e.g. mobile services) will also be encouraged to attend the workshop.

The deadline for workshopfull paper submissions is June 9, 2008 (extended two weeks to correspond with GIScience abstract deadline extension). Paper notification will occur by July 1, 2008.

Please submitt the camera ready version to the easychair conference system until August, 1^st 2008.

The workshop itself was held September 23, 2008 in Park City, Utah (the location of GIScience 2008).

Papers are to be no more than 2000 words and submitted in the LNCS format (about 5-6 pages) using the easychair conference system.

The workshop will include following 5 presentations and a panel discussion.

• Matthias Baldauf, Peter Peter Fröhlich and Przemyslaw Musialski: A Lightweight 3D Visualization Approach for Mobile City Exploration. Presentation: (Slides)
• Lasse Moller-Jensen: Mobile GIS strategies for disseminating thematic tourist information: Examples of spatial narratives. Presentation: (Slides)
• Bernt Wahl and Erik Wilde: Defining Neighborhoods. Presentation: (Slides)
• Fabien Girardin and Josep Blat: Assessing pervasive user-generated content to describe tourist dynamics. Presentation: (Slides)
• Gerhard Schall, Sebastian Junghanns and Dieter Schmalstieg: The Transcoding Pipeline: Automatic Generation of 3D Models from Geospatial Data Sources. Presentation: (Slides)

We will especially encourage young scientists and PhD students to submit papers. To promote exchange of ideas, a dedicated discussant will be appointed for each paper. This person will receive the text of the paper in advance, with the task of preparing comments and questions and moderating the discussion.

Each paper was reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.

• Call for papers: February, 7^th 2008
• Deadline for workshop papers: June, 9^th 2008
• Workshop paper notification: July, 1^st 2008
• Camera Ready: August, 1^st 2008
• Workshop: September, 23^rd 2008, Park City, Utah