Conferences on Tactile Maps or Cognitive Issues of Navigation

Recently, the 1st European State of the Map Conference of the OpenStreetMap project took place in Vienna, Austria. Participants from various countries were present and listened to a bunch of interesting talks. In the context of my research, the talk by Annette Thurow on OSM for blind users was particularly insightful. How to make customized maps from OSM data with Maperitive was demonstrated as well. All recordings of the presentations and conference proceedings (PDF) are available.

Upcoming conferences and possibly relevant presentations:

• Braille21 in Leipzig:
• T2: Banning a Chimera with the Hyperbraille Display
  Prof. Gerhard Weber
• 10th COSIT in Belfast (US):
• Poster: Towards a theory of spatial assistance from a phenomenological perspective: Technical and social factors for blind navigation
  Kirsten Jacobson, Nicholas A. Giudice, and Reinhard Moratz
• Poster: A Conceptual framework for comparing navigation across different domains: Lessons from blind navigation
  Julio C. Mateo 
• Paper: Towards Cognitively Plausible Spatial Representations for Sketch Map Alignment
  Malumbo Chipofya, Jia Wang, Angela Schwering
• Paper: The Effect of Activity on Relevance and Granularity for Navigation
  Stephen Hirtle, Sabine Timpf and Thora Tenbrink