Group on visualization doing map stuff at HAfencity University

A friend pointed me to the Christoph Kinkeldey's blog about his work in the Lab for Geoinformatics and Geovisualization that seems to be part of an "interdisciplinary group on visualization at hafencity university in hamburg. The blog allows to imagine what he and his co-workers do in the DigitalCity Research Group at HafenCity Uni (a more reliable source is this article (PDF)). One of his research questions is how the style of a city map affect the cognitive image of the depicted geographic space. This is quite close to my own research that asks a similar question for tactile orientation maps: how do the parameters of the realisation of a tactile map influence its conceptualisation? As me, the researchers at DigitalCity Research Group work on pedestrian navigation in cities, but they try to find new ways to support online navigation with the help of sensor network. My work is on in-advance learning of spatial structures to allow for later self-guided navigation. Anyway I will keep my eyes open what these people do. Christoph will present his work "Framework for Detection and Analysis of Land Cover Changes Using Visual Analytics" at GeoVis 2011 that is organised by HafenCity University.