10:00

Welcome

Muki Haklay

UCL

10:10

Setting the scene for the workshop

Liz Ratcliffe & Jenny Harding

OS

10:30

The metadata crisis:  Can geographic information be made more usable?

Barbara Poore

USGS

10:50

Usability of GI – case study using address locations

Nick Bearman

UEA

11:10

Usability of VGI in Haiti earthquake response

Muki Haklay

UCL

11:30

Tea and coffee

11:45

Characteristics of VGI stakeholders

Christopher Parker

Loughborough University

12:05

Usability of GI for utility field workers

Phillip Robinson

GE Energy

12:25

Usability of GI for non-visual perceptualisation: Experiences from the HaptiMap Project

Paul Kelly

Queens Univ. Belfast

12:45

Lunch

13:30

Group discussion activity on research challenges in geographic data usability

Sarah Sharples and all

University of
Nottingham

14:15

Google Earth Tours:  Testing spatial content

Richard Treves

University of
Southampton

14:35

Data usability aspects in children’s geospatial learning

Johannes Schlüter

University of
Muenster

14:55

Non-specialists’ understanding of climate change information

Martin Maguire

Loughborough University

15:15

Tea and coffee

15:30

How useful is my map?  Developing a questionnaire to measure the usability of GI products

Michael Brown

University of
Nottingham/OS

15:50

Concluding discussion

all

16:30

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