The commission organises workshops, conference sessions and joint events with other ICA commissions and partner societies. To propose an event or a joint session, contact one of the co-chairs.
Upcoming meetings
- 20th International Conference on Location Based Services (LBS 2026), 11–13 November 2026, Nanjing, China. lbs2026.lbsconference.org
- 33rd International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2027) and 20th ICA General Assembly, 18–23 July 2027, Warsaw, Poland. Conference theme: Big Data Cartography. The commission plans themed sessions and will present its activity report and terms of reference for 2027–2031. Calls and deadlines will be posted here. icc2027.org
Past meetings
2026
- EuroCarto 2026, 8–11 September 2026, Brno, Czechia. eurocarto2026.org
2025
- 32nd International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2025), 17–22 August 2025, Vancouver, Canada. The commission held themed sessions on cognitive issues in geovisualization. Abstracts and papers are published open access in the Abstracts of the ICA and Proceedings of the ICA.
- 19th International Conference on Location Based Services (LBS 2025), 7–9 May 2025, Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland. lbs2025.lbsconference.org
- Dresden Nexus Conference: The Future of Resources – Resources for the Future, 8–10 April 2025, Dresden, Germany. Conference website
- RIMMA2025: International Conference on Forecasting, Preparedness, Warning, and Response – Visualization, Communication, and Information Management, 28–31 January 2025, University of Bern, Switzerland. The commission organised a session together with the Swiss Society of Cartography. Abstracts are published in the Abstracts of the ICA, Vol. 9. Programme
2024
- 1st Asian Cartographic Conference (AsiaCarto 2024), 8–10 December 2024, Hong Kong, China. Conference on cartography and geospatial AI, organised by the ICA and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. asiacarto.org/2024
- ICA Workshop on AI, Geovisualization, and Analytical Reasoning (CartoVis24), 7 September 2024, University of Warsaw, Poland. Co-organised with the ICA Commissions on User Experience and Visual Analytics and the University of Warsaw Department of Geoinformatics, Cartography and Remote Sensing. Abstracts are published in the Abstracts of the ICA, Vol. 8. Workshop website
- 9th International Conference on Cartography and GIS, 16–21 June 2024, Nessebar, Bulgaria. iccgis2024.cartography-gis.com
- Geoinformatics Research Days 2024, 20–21 May 2024, Espoo, Finland. The commission worked with the Finnish University Network for Geoinformatics (FIUGINET) to open this national conference to international participants. Conference website
- 22nd Cognition and Artificial Life Conference and 1st Central Europe Conference on Eye-tracking (CAL & CECE 2024), 15–17 May 2024, Olomouc, Czechia. Organised by the Department of Geoinformatics, Palacký University Olomouc, and the Department of Information and Library Studies, Masaryk University. www.cal-cece.eu
2023
- Workshop on MapAI, co-organised with the ICA Commission on Visual Analytics, 12 August 2023, Stellenbosch, South Africa. See the workshop website for the full program. Videos of the lightning talks are available here.
- Commission-themed sessions at the 31st International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2023), Cape Town, South Africa. CogVis sessions were on Monday 14 August (sessions 5E, 8E, 9F, 10E, 12E) and Wednesday 16 August (29C). See the conference program for talk titles.
2021
- ICC 2021, 30th International Cartographic Conference, 14–18 December 2021, Florence, Italy (hybrid). The commission co-hosted two workshops on Monday 13 December:
- Sharing Cartographic Knowledge (morning), co-organised with the Commissions on SDI and Standards, Geospatial Semantics, and Open Source Geospatial Technologies
- Immersive Cartography / Cartography for Immersive Environments (afternoon), co-organised with the Commission on User Experience
- Sessions on Spatial Cognition in the Mobile Era at the 28th Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences Conference (CPGIS), 3–5 November 2021, Nanchang, China. Conference website
- Workshop on Cybercartography: A Beyond State-of-the-Art Role of Geovisualization in the Understanding of the World, 8 June 2021, online, with members of AGILE, ICA and ISPRS. Workshop website
- Workshop on Adaptable Research Methods for Empirical Research with Map Users, co-organised with the ICA Commission on User Experience, 6 May 2021, online. Workshop website
2020
- All planned in-person events were postponed due to COVID-19.
2019
- Pre-conference workshop on User Experience Design for Mobile Cartography: Setting the Research Agenda, 11–12 July 2019, Beijing, China. Workshop website
- Pre-conference workshop on Abstractions, Scales, Perceptions, 15 July 2019, Tokyo, Japan. Workshop website
- CogVis paper sessions on 16 and 17 July at ICC 2019, Tokyo, Japan. See sessions labelled T06 in the conference programme.
2018
- Commission meeting on Reproducibility in Cartography, 27 April 2018, Olomouc, Czechia. One-day workshop co-organised with ISPRS WG IV/9 (Geovisualization, Augmented and Virtual Reality) and the ICA Commission on Use, User and Usability Issues. Programme and summary
- Atlases, Cognition, Usability, joint workshop with the Commission on Atlases and the Commission on Use, User and Usability Issues, 28–30 April 2018, Olomouc, Czechia. Workshop website
2017
- Pre-conference workshop on Maps and Emotion (CFP), organised with the Commissions on Art & Cartography and Topographic Mapping, 1–2 July 2017, Washington, D.C., USA. Program
- Series of sessions on cognitive issues in visualization at ICC 2017, 3–7 July 2017, Washington, D.C., USA.
2016
- Follow-up workshop to complete the draft research agendas from the Envisioning the Future of Interactive Cartography Research workshop (Curitiba, 2015), 29 March 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Paper sessions on Cognition, Behavior, and Design at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, 29 March – 2 April 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA, with the ICA Commission on Use, User and Usability Issues.
2015
- ICA Chairs Meeting, 8–9 November 2015, Vienna, Austria.
Photo: ICA, © 2015 - GeoVIS 2015: Rendering and Cognition with Images and Hybrid Visualizations, 1 October 2015, Montpellier, France. Workshop information and program; papers in the ISPRS Annals and ISPRS Archives.
- Series of sessions on cognitive issues in visualization at ICC 2015, 23–28 August 2015, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Notes from the CogVis business meeting (PDF).
Photo: Charlotte Hoarau - Two-day pre-conference workshop, 20–21 August 2015, Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Brazil, with the ICA Commissions on Geovisualization, Map Design, and Use and User Issues. Workshop materials: W1 Designing and Conducting User Studies and W2 Envisioning the Future of Interactive Cartography Research.
- Paper sessions on Cognition, Behavior, and Design at the AAG Annual Meeting, 21–25 April 2015, Chicago, IL, USA.
2014
- Paper sessions on Cognition, Behavior, Representation at the AAG Annual Meeting, 8–12 April 2014, Tampa, FL, USA.
- Commission meeting and CartoCon 2014 conference, 25–28 February 2014, Olomouc, Czechia, with the ICA Commissions on Use and User Issues and on National and Regional Atlases. Commission meeting slides (PDF).
Photo: Viktor Cap, © 2014
2013
- Pre-conference workshop on Eye Tracking at ICC 2013, 25–30 August 2013, Dresden, Germany, with the ICA Commissions on Geovisualization and Use and User Issues. Workshop program and materials; data challenge information from CogVis, Geovis and UUI.
Photo: Kristien Ooms, © 2013 - Series of sessions on cognitive visualization issues at ICC 2013, Dresden, selected from a record number of submissions. Notes from the CogVis business meeting (PDF).
- Paper sessions on Cognition, Behavior, Representation at the AAG Annual Meeting, 9–13 April 2013, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- Workshop GeoViz 2013: Interactive Maps that Help People Think, 6–8 March 2013, Hamburg, Germany, with the ICA Commission on Geovisualization. Workshop materials. Selected papers appeared in a special issue of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science.
Photo: GeoViz Hamburg 2013 organizers, © 2013
2012
- Panel on Cartography & GIScience, 18 September 2012, on the overlapping day of AutoCarto and GIScience, Columbus, OH, USA, exploring future research challenges with scholars from cartography, GIScience, information science and cognitive science.
Photo: Eric Anderson, © 2012 - Pre-conference workshop on Experimental Methods at AutoCarto / GIScience, 16–21 September 2012, Columbus, OH, USA, with the ICA Commission on Use and User Issues. Call for participation (PDF) · Workshop program (PDF). The workshop modules are available on the Tutorials page.
Photo: Kristien Ooms, © 2012 - AAG Annual Meeting, 24–28 February 2012, New York, NY, USA: seven paper sessions on Cognition, Behavior, Representation, including two sessions co-hosted with the ICA Commission on Map Design and an interactive short-paper session of research-agenda talks for the commission’s next four years.
2011
- ICA Chairs Meeting, 24–26 November 2011, Vienna, Austria.
Photo: Horst Kremers, © 2011 - Cognitive Science Society Annual Conference (CogSci 2011), 20–23 July 2011, Boston, MA, USA. Invited symposium: Everyday Cognitive Science: Using the methods of cognitive science to explore spatial thinking in related disciplines. Digital proceedings