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Addressing characteristics of environmental context - challenges and potential for location-based mobile learning applications Open

Friedrich Striewski, Carolin Bronowicz, Susanne Bleisch · 2025

Complexity, uniqueness, and dynamism are intrinsic characteristics of the physical environment that must be carefully addressed in the development of location-based, context-aware mobile learning applications. Designing such applications t…

An interdisciplinary perspective on generalising and highlighting buildings in their urban context Open

Carolin Bronowicz, Anne-Catherine Schröter, Susanne Bleisch · 2025

The analysis of historical urban transformations and the development of the built environment as a whole is an important branch of research within architectural history. One of the challenges in this type of research is the appropriate vis…

Measuring the quality of collaborative group engagement: Development and validation of the QCGE self-assessment scale (QCGE-SAS) Open

Loris Jeitziner, Lisa Paneth, Oliver Rack, Susanne Bleisch, Carmen Zahn · 2025

Quality of collaborative group engagement (QCGE) is conceptualised as a complex, shared, and multidimensional construct critical to learning outcomes in collaborative learning. It is currently measured in a variety of ways, including rich …

How useful are interactive small multiples for the visualization of overlapping areal information? An expert evaluation in spatial planning Open

Salome Reutimann, Carolin Bronowicz, Susanne Bleisch · 2025

Using Glyphs to Visually Analyse Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Non-Verbal Behaviour Dynamics Open

Carolin Bronowicz, Susanne Bleisch, Matus Gasparik · 2024

Focusing on individual buildings within urban contexts through generalisation levels: an interdisciplinary approach to the visualization of 3D-city models Open

Carolin Bronowicz, Anne-Catherine Schröter, Susanne Bleisch · 2024

Square-glyphs: assessing the readability of multidimensional spatial data visualized as square-glyphs Open

Gianna Daniela Müller, Daria Hollenstein, Arzu Çöltekin, Susanne Bleisch · 2023

Glyphs have long been used to approach the challenge of visualising multidimensional data with geospatial reference. Depending on the glyph design, data-dense visualizations of several concurrent data dimensions can be created. The square-…

Visualizing Uncertainty in Sets Open

Christian Tominski, Michael Behrisch, Susanne Bleisch, Sara Irina Fabrikant, Eva Mayr , et al. · 2023

Set visualization facilitates the exploration and analysis of set-type data. However, how sets should be visualized when the data is uncertain is still an open research challenge. To address the problem of depicting uncertainty in set visu…

Employing cartographic principles to improve data graphics Open

Susanne Bleisch · 2022

LINKING MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES WITH OBJECT-BASED VISUAL CUES FOR SPATIAL VIDEO ANALYSIS Open

Daria Hollenstein, Susanne Bleisch · 2022

The visual analysis of videos in context with mapped information requires support in the challenges of linking different spatial perspectives (e.g., street level and survey perspective), bridging different levels of detail, and relating ob…

Gaining overview with transient focus+context maps Open

Daria Hollenstein, Susanne Bleisch · 2021

Gaining an overview of large spatial data sets presents a challenge common to various domains. 'Overviewing' spatial data involves viewing different areas of focus and context at different scales and requires access to detail from zoomed-o…

Toward flexible visual analytics augmented through smooth display transitions Open

Christian Tominski, Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko, Susanne Bleisch, Sara Irina Fabrikant , et al. · 2021

The atlas of aging society 2.0 Open

Lina Dönni, Susanne Bleisch, Rainer Roth, Mario F. Pozza, Daria Hollenstein , et al. · 2020

Most of the western countries currently experience a demographic change. It is essential catching this structural change with all its socio-spatial and life-specific dimensions and make it visible in a generally understandable way.The atla…

Exploratory Bivariate and Multivariate Geovisualizations of a Social Vulnerability Index Open

Georgianna Strode, Victor Mesev, Susanne Bleisch, Kathryn Ziewitz, F. Noss Reed , et al. · 2020

In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national agency that conducts and supports public health research and practice. Among the CDC’s many achievements is the development of a social vulnerabilit…

Evaluating the impact of visualization of risk upon emergency route-planning Open

Lisa Cheong, Christoph Kinkeldey, Ingrid Burfurd, Susanne Bleisch, Matt Duckham · 2019

This paper reports on a controlled experiment evaluating how different cartographic representations of risk affect participants' performance on a complex spatial decision task: route planning. The specific experimental scenario used is ori…

A visual approach to creating multivariate geovisualization test data Open

Thomas Z. Lerch, Susanne Bleisch · 2019

Testing multivariate geovisualizations, for example glyph designs, for their perceptual qualities requires suitable test data. Synthetic data can be useful for evaluating different data characteristics and their perceptibility through diff…

Investigating Roundabout Properties and Bicycle Accident Occurrence at Swiss Roundabouts: A Logistic Regression Approach Open

Daria Hollenstein, Martin Heß, Denis Jordan, Susanne Bleisch · 2019

The positive effects of active mobility on mental and physical health as well as on air quality are widely acknowledged. Increasing the share of active travel is therefore an aim in many countries. Providing bicycle-safe infrastructure is …

Exploratory Geovisualizations for Supporting the Qualitative Analysis and Synthesis of Place-Related Emotion Data Open

Susanne Bleisch, Daria Hollenstein · 2019

Locations become places through personal significance and experience. While place data are not emotion data, per se, personal significance and experience are often emotional. In this paper, we explore the potential of using visual data exp…

Technological infrastructure supporting the story network principle of the Atlas of the Ageing Society Open

Adriana Zanda, Jonas Lutz, Alesya Heymann, Susanne Bleisch · 2019

Atlases have a long tradition of showing and linking information for the exploration of various mostly spatially related topics. The Atlas of the Ageing Society is an interactive platform illustrating age related data. It enables individua…

Exploring multivariate representations of indices along linear geographic features Open

Susanne Bleisch, Daria Hollenstein · 2018

A study of the walkability of a Swiss town required finding suitable representations of multivariate geographical da-ta. The goal was to represent multiple indices of walkability concurrently and visualizing the data along the street netwo…

Long-standing research challenges in geographic visualization Open

Arzu Çöltekin, Susanne Bleisch, Gennady Andrienko, Jason Dykes · 2017

Designing across map use contexts: a research agenda Open

Amy L. Griffin, Travis White, Carolyn Fish, Beate Tomio, Haosheng Huang , et al. · 2017

The explosion of map use in the past few decades as part of everyday activities, accelerated through the digital production and dissemination of maps and the availability of low-cost, location-aware devices, has made the job of cartographe…

Persistent challenges in geovisualization – a community perspective Open

Arzu Çöltekin, Susanne Bleisch, Gennady Andrienko, Jason Dykes · 2017

Over four workshops, we collected community input on what people considered as persistent challenges in geovisualization with the participation of 72 experts from various sub-domains of geographic information science and technology. We cat…

CHALLENGES OF A MODERN ATLAS OF THE AGEING SOCIETY Open

Susanne Bleisch, D. Hil, Safak Korkut, P. Meyer · 2016

Atlases are collections of illustrated data, often maps, which give an overview - as well as some details - of one or several topic areas. We noted that this description serves well especially for traditional paper and digital atlases. How…

WALKABILITY FOR DIFFERENT URBAN GRANULARITIES Open

Daria Hollenstein, Susanne Bleisch · 2016

The positive effects of low-intensity physical activity are widely acknowledged and in this context walking is often promoted as an active form of transport. Under the concept of walkability the role of the built environment in encouraging…

CHALLENGES OF A MODERN ATLAS OF THE AGEING SOCIETY Open

Susanne Bleisch, D. Hil, Safak Korkut, P. Meyer · 2016

Atlases are collections of illustrated data, often maps, which give an overview - as well as some details - of one or several topic areas. We noted that this description serves well especially for traditional paper and digital atlases. How…

Evaluating the impact of visualization of wildfire hazard upon decision-making under uncertainty Open

Lisa Cheong, Susanne Bleisch, Allison Kealy, Kevin Tolhurst, Tom Wilkening , et al. · 2016

The paper investigates whether the methods chosen for representing uncertain geographic information aid or impair decision-making in the context of wildfire hazard. Through a series of three human subject experiments, utilizing 180 subject…

Graphical Aids to the Estimation and Discrimination of Uncertain Numerical Data Open

Myeong‐Hun Jeong, Matt Duckham, Susanne Bleisch · 2015

This research investigates the performance of graphical dot arrays designed to make discrimination of relative numerosity as effortless as possible at the same time as making absolute (quantitative) numerosity estimation as effortful as po…

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