Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization
The ICA Commission on Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization (CogVis) studies how people perceive, understand and decide with maps and geovisual displays. We bring together cartographers, GIScientists, psychologists, cognitive scientists and HCI researchers to build an empirical basis for designing maps that work: static, interactive, mobile, 3D and immersive, and increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence.
We organise workshops and conference sessions, edit special issues, share research methods and tools, and connect researchers across disciplines and regions. Membership is free and open to anyone working on these questions.
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Next events
- LBS 2026, 20th International Conference on Location Based Services, Nanjing, China, 11–13 November 2026 · lbs2026.lbsconference.org
- ICC 2027, 33rd International Cartographic Conference and ICA General Assembly, Warsaw, Poland, 18–23 July 2027 · icc2027.org
All past and upcoming meetings are on the Activities page.
Co-chairs 2023–2027
Pyry Kettunen (Finnish Geospatial Research Institute, Finland) · Petr Kubíček (Masaryk University, Czechia) · Hua Liao (Hunan Normal University, China) · Tumasch Reichenbacher (University of Zurich, Switzerland) · Contact