AGILE Conference 2024 - Data-driven Movement Analysis for Understanding Human Behavior and Interaction in Changing Urban Environments
Join our online stream of this keynote talk of AGILE Conference 2024
Social Sciences Hub
Date: Wednesday 05 June 2024
Time: 09:30 - 10:30
Venue: Online
Category: Conferences, Academic events
Speaker: Dr. Somayeh Dodge
Data-driven movement analysis plays a crucial role in understanding urban dynamics and human exposure and access to built and social environments. The increasing environmental variability arising from climate change-induced events, including natural disasters, can cause substantial shifts in human movement activity and their daily interactions. Investigating these patterns can inform sustainability planning efforts to enhance human well-being, increase communities' resilience, and reduce inequalities in accessing urban resources. Using movement as a marker of behavior, this presentation explore various applications of movement analysis in investigating individuals' behavioral responses to environmental changes and their social interactions.
Bio: Somayeh Dodge is an Associate Professor of Spatial Data Science in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She serves on the Board of Directors of the University Consortium for Geographic Information (UCGIS). She is currently a Senior Fellow of the ETH/UZH Collegium Helveticum program and a Fellow of the University of Zurich Digital Society Initiative (DSI). She received her PhD in Geography with a specialization in Geographic Information Science (GIScience) from the University of Zurich, Switzerland in 2011. She is a recipient of the 2021 CAREER award from the U.S. Science National Foundation (NSF), and the 2022 Emerging Scholar Award of the Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group of the American Associations of Geographers (AAG). Somayeh's research focuses on developing data analytics, knowledge discovery, modeling, and visualization techniques to study movement behavior in dynamic human and ecological systems.
Researchers, developers, lecturers, students, and practitioners in all facets of Geo-Information Science and Technology are cordially invited to the conference, to present ongoing research, showcase products, network with colleagues from Europe and the rest of the world, and find out about the latest developments in the field.
This is the annual conference for the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe. This year’s conference theme “Geographic Information Science for a Sustainable Future” aims to explore the critical role of geographic information science in shaping a sustainable future. The conference will be hosted at the University of Glasgow from the 4th June - 7th June 2024. Keynote talks will be streamed online for those not attending the conference.