Mobile Cartography

Content

The course provides an overview of theories, methods and application for information delivery and cartographic presentation on mobile devices. Lecture topics are:

introduction to mobile cartography with definitions, platforms, applications and research challenges
usability and user experience
mobile user interface design
in-app navigation
icon design
mobile map design
context and adaptation
analysis and visualisation of geo-social media data

At the end of the module students are able to

create and identify user-friedly mobile user interfaces
design mobile maps
apply context modeling and user modeling with geodata on mobile devices
create multiple representation of geodata on mobile devices
create mobile applications (e.g. navigation, wayfinding, orientation, tourist maps)