9:00 – 9:15:
Welcome and Introduction
9:15 – 10:00:
Social Media and GIScience: Challenges and Opportunities
Anthony Stefanidis,
George Mason University
10:00-10:30: Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:00:
Exploring Strava Segments as a Source of Placename Information
Elise A. Acheson and Ross S. Purves
University of Zurich
11:00 – 11:30:
Locating GeoSocial Town: Digital Places and Urban Spaces Across Census Tract and Volunteered Geographic Information in Florence
Antonello Romano
University of Sienna
11:30 – 12:00:
Landuse Classification and Occupancy Estimation from Fine Grained Social Media Analysis
Gautam S. Thakur, Kevin A. Sparks, Marie L. Urban, Robert N. Stewart, Budhendra L. Bhaduri
Oak Ridge Lab
12:00 – 1:30: Lunch Break
1:30 – 2:00:
A Socio-geographic Perspective on Human Activities in Social Media
Ding Ma, Mats Sandberg, and Bin Jiang
University of Gavle, Sweden
2:00 – 2:30:
Health Crises in Twitter: A Comparative Study of Spatial Patterns of Participation for Ebola and Zika
Jacek
Radzikowski, Arie Croitoru, Andrew Crooks, Paul Delamater, Kathryn
Jacobsen, George Lamprianidis, Dieter Pfoser, Anthony Stefanidis, Emily
Vraga
George Mason University
2:30 – 3:30:
Keynote Address: A Multi-scale Representation for Predicting Human Activities in the Era of Big Data
Bin Jiang
University of Gavle