*Call for Papers – Effective Map-based Interfaces and Interactions (MAPII 2024)
* *INTERACT 2025 Workshop 
* *8 or 9 September 2025 – Belo Horizonte, Brazil * *More info: https://avcd.aalto.fi/mapii2025/* *ABOUT THE WORKSHOP* ----------------------- In the digital age, maps have continued to play a vital role in helping us explore the physical world and perform numerous tasks. Although most people have never been trained to understand and use maps as a form of visualization with many underlying peculiarities and subjective biases inherent in their design and representation, most map-based interfaces and interactions are assumed to be effective and usable by ordinary everyday users. The main aim of this workshop is to provide a collaborative informal venue for its participants to showcase their latest design, research, or professional work on map-based interfaces and interactions, and to share their diverse practical expertise, best practices, learnings, and experiences with others. In particular, this workshop focuses on the development of more effective maps and map-like visualizations in supporting non-expert users in performing their daily tasks. This workshop is part of INTERACT 2025, and is supported by the IFIP TC 13 Working Group on Human-Centred Technology for Sustainability. *CALL FOR PARTICIPATION* ----------------------- The main objective of this workshop is to provide a collaborative informal venue for its participants to showcase their latest design, research, or professional work on map-based interfaces and interactions and to share their diverse practical expertise, best practices, learnings, and experiences with each other. Through this, the workshop also aims to help the participants to further develop their work and contribute to future research and design in their specific fields in an interdisciplinary manner. Prospective workshop participants are invited to submit either a short paper or an extended abstract describing their interests and work related to the topics of this workshop. Some of the main topics to be covered by this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: - design and research foundations of map-based interfaces and interactions. - theories, principles and practices guiding the design of map-based interfaces and interactions. - uses of map-based interfaces and interactions in targetting societal issues relating to, for instance, environmental or public health challenges. - applications of map-based interfaces and interactions, in areas such as healthcare, education, or entertainment. - usability evaluations and user experience studies of map-based interfaces and interactions. *WORKSHOP STRUCTURE* ----------------------- This one-day workshop will follow the successful format of the previous MAPII workshops and build on the positive feedback received from their participants. It will be an informal and participatory workshop, combining short presentations of the accepted papers with group discussions. The aim is to assist the participants with developing their future research and design or professional work. The workshop will also include a fun hands-on group map design activity, during which the participants will work together in small groups to create imaginary maps and sketches for the design of an interactive application which take users' experiences into account. We hope to run the workshop in person at the conference. Provisions will, however, be made to run the workshop in remote or hybrid mode if necessary. *SUBMISSIONS* ----------------------- Workshop paper submissions should be of maximum 10 pages, and prepared according to the Springer LNCS format, using the templates provided for CS Proceedings and other Multiauthor Volumes (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui...). Submissions should be made through Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mapii2025). The workshop programme committee will review the submitted position papers, and select 10-15 papers for presentation at the workshop based on their quality and relevance to the workshop topics. The accepted workshop papers will be shared with its participants prior to the workshop. The authors will also be invited to submit the extended version of their papers for inclusion in a post-conference edited volume – to be published by the INTERACT 2025 organizers. In addition, the workshop will include a discussion session on any future publications, for instance, in the form of a co-authored report or a journal article. *IMPORTANT DATES* ----------------------- Submission deadline: 28 April 2025 Notification: 19 April 2025 Camera-ready: 02 June 2025 Workshop date: 08 or 09 June 2025 *WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS* ----------------------- Masood Masoodian, Aalto University (Finland) Saturnino Luz, University of Edinburgh (UK) *PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (to be confirmed)* ------------------------- Saturnino Luz, University of Edinburgh (UK) Masood Masoodian, Aalto University (Finland) Shane Sheehan, University of Edinburgh (UK) Artemis Skarlatidou, University College London (UK) Thomas Rist, Augsburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany) -- Prof. Masood Masoodian Visual Communication Design Aalto University avcd.aalto.fi