Publications

The listing of a publication under a theme is provisional and some publications touch more than one theme. To cite any of the publications below, please check the Zotero entries.  

Geovisualization | Interaction with Geographic Information

1. Hurst, J., Degbelo, A. and Kray, C. (2024) ‘FreeMapRetrieve: freehand gestures for retrieve operations in large-screen map environments’, AGILE 2024. [demo]

2. Degbelo, A., Schmidt, B., Henzen, C., Lechler, S., Lubahn, B. and Zander, F. (2023) ‘Desiderata for intelligent maps: a multi-perspective compilation’, KN - Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information. 

3. Hüffer, P., Degbelo, A. and Koukouraki, E. (2023) ‘Designing search engines for interactive web-based geovisualizations’, in AGILE 2023.

4. Bagert, J. and Degbelo, A. (2023) ‘3D4DT: An approach to explore decision trees for thematic map creation as an interactive 3D scene’, in. Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) 2023 – Academic Track, Prizren, Kosovo. [demo]

5. Somaskantharajan, S., Degbelo, A. and Krukar, J. (2023) ‘An exploratory study of models of mobile map user experience’, KN - Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information. 

6. Gorte, V. and Degbelo, A. (2022) ‘Choriented maps: visualizing SDG data on mobile devices’, The Cartographic Journal. 

7. Degbelo, A. (2021) ‘FAIR geovisualizations: definitions, challenges, and the road ahead’, International Journal of Geographical Information Science.

8. Lai, P.-C. and Degbelo, A. (2021) ‘A comparative study of typing and speech for map metadata creation’, AGILE 2021. [talk]

9. Einfeldt, L. and Degbelo, A. (2021) ‘User interface factors of mobile UX: A study with an incident reporting application’, in 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Application (HUCAPP@VISIGRAPP2021). [talk]

10. Degbelo, A. and Somaskantharajan, S. (2020) ‘Speech-based interaction for map editing on mobile devices: a scenario-based study’, in Mensch und Computer 2020. [talk]  

11. Degbelo, A., Sarfraz, S. and Kray, C. (2020) ‘Data scale as Cartography: A semi-automatic approach for thematic web map creation’, Cartography and Geographic Information Science. [demo]

12. Kray, C. and Degbelo, A. (2019) ‘Map plasticity’, in Poster Session at Conference on Spatial Information Theory: COSIT’19. Regensburg, Germany. [preprint] [poster]

13. Degbelo, A., Kruse, J. and Pfeiffer, M. (2019) ‘Interactive maps, productivity and user experience: A user study in the E-mobility domain’, Transactions in GIS. 

14. Degbelo, A., Wissing, J. and Kauppinen, T. (2018) ‘A comparison of geovisualizations and data tables for transparency enablement in the open government data landscape’, International Journal of Electronic Government Research, 14(4), pp. 39–64.  

15. Degbelo, A. and Kray, C. (2018) ‘Intelligent geovisualizations for open government data (vision paper)’, in 26th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. Seattle, Washington, USA.  

16. Degbelo, A. and Kauppinen, T. (2018) ‘Increasing transparency through web maps’, in WWW ’18 Companion: The 2018 Web Conference Companion. Lyon, France:  ACM Press, pp. 899–904. 

17. Degbelo, A. (2017) ‘Linked data and visualization: two sides of the transparency coin’, in Proceedings of UrbanGIS’17:3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Smart Cities and Urban Analytics. Redondo Beach, California, USA.

18. Fritze, H., Degbelo, A., Brüggentisch, T. and Kray, C. (2017) ‘Feature-centric ranking algorithms for georeferenced video search’, in Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017). Los Angeles, California, USA.

19. Fritze, H., Degbelo, A. and Loos, S. (2017) ‘What you mark is where it was - A user-centric approach for post-hoc georeferencing of urban terrestrial photos’, in AGILE 2017. Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Interactive Systems | Human-Computer Interaction

1. Meißner, S. and Degbelo, A. (2024) ‘User performance modelling for spatial entities comparison with geodashboards: using view quality and distractor as concepts’, in EICS'24 Companion.

2. de Kreij, S., Ranasinghe, C. and Degbelo, A. (2024) ‘Data physicalization and tangible manipulation for engaging children with data: An example with air quality data’, in 23rd annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2024).

3. Dullaert, S., Ranasinghe, C., Degbelo, A. and Bouali, N. (2024) ‘Data physicalization with haptic variables: exploring resistance and friction’, in Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

4. Ranasinghe, C. and Degbelo, A. (2023) ‘Encoding variables, evaluation criteria and evaluation strategies for data physicalizations: a review’, in Multimodal Technologies and Interaction.

5. Peeters, D., Ranasinghe, C., Degbelo, A. and Ahmed, F. (2023) ‘EmoClock: communicating real-time emotional states through data physicalizations’, in INTERACT 2023. York, United Kingdom. 

6. van Loenhout, R., Ranasinghe, C., Degbelo, A. and Bouali, N. (2022) ‘Physicalizing sustainable development goal data: an example with SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy)’, in Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. [talk]

7. Braun, L., Degbelo, A. and Kray, C. (2021) ‘Geofreebie: A location-based freecycling app to support forced migrant resettlement’, in Journal of Location Based Services.  

8. Pfeiffer, M., Philippi, N. and Degbelo, A. (2020) ‘EMS-based actuated output gestures: a design process for novices’, in Mensch und Computer 2020. **best  short paper award**

9. Bustamante Duarte, A. M., Ataei, M., Degbelo, A., Brendel, N. and Kray, C. (2019) ‘Safe spaces in participatory design with young forced migrants’, CoDesign.  

10. Du, G., Degbelo, A. and Kray, C. (2019) ‘User-generated gestures for voting and commenting on immersive displays in urban planning’, Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 3(2).  

11. Du, G., Kray, C. and Degbelo, A. (2019) ‘Interactive immersive public displays as facilitators for deeper participation in urban planning’, International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction.  

12. Ataei, M., Degbelo, A., Kray, C. and Santos, V. (2018) ‘Complying with privacy legislation: from legal text to implementation of privacy-aware location based services’, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 7(11), p. 442.

13. Ataei, M., Degbelo, A. and Kray, C. (2018) ‘Privacy theory in practice: designing a user interface for managing location privacy on mobile devices’, Journal of Location Based Services, pp. 1–38. 

14. Bustamante, A. M., Degbelo, A. and Kray, C. (2018) ‘Exploring forced migrants (re)settlement & the role of digital services’, in Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2018). Nancy, France.  

15. Du, G., Degbelo, A., Kray, C. and Painho, M. (2018) ‘Gestural interaction with 3D objects on public displays: an elicitation study’, Interaction Design and Architecture (s) Journal - IxD&A, (38), pp. 184–202.

16. Bustamante, A. M., Brendel, N., Degbelo, A. and Kray, C. (2018) ‘Participatory design and participatory research: An HCI case study with young forced migrants’, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). New York, NY, USA: ACM, 25(1), p. 3:1--3:39.  

17. Du, G., Degbelo, A. and Kray, C. (2017) ‘Public displays for public participation in urban settings: a survey’, in Perdis 2017. Lugano, Switzerland.

Open Data Re-use | Smarter Cities

1. Degbelo, A. (2024) ‘Prolegomena to a description language for GenAI tools in cities’, Digital Government: Research and Practice.

2. Lindner, C., Degbelo, A., Vassányi, G., Kundert, K. and Schwering, A. (2023) ‘The SmartLandMaps approach for participatory land rights mapping’, Land 2023.

3. Kanschat, R., Gupta, S. and Degbelo, A. (2022) ‘Wireless-Signal-based vehicle counting and classification in different road environments’, IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems.

4. Gupta, S. and Degbelo, A. (2022) ‘An empirical analysis of AI contributions to sustainable cities (SDG11)’, in Mazzi, F. and Floridi, L. (eds) The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence for the Sustainable Development Goals. 

5. Barros, M., Degbelo, A. and Filomena, G. (2021) ‘Evaluative maps 2.0: a web mapping approach to capture people’s perceptions of a city’, Transactions in GIS. [Demo Canvas] [Demo Viewer]

6. Degbelo, A. (2020) ‘Open data user needs: a preliminary synthesis’, in WWW ’20 - Companion Proceedings. Taipei, Taiwan. [talk]

7. Degbelo, A. and Sherpa, A. (2020) ‘Open geodata reuse: towards natural language interfaces to web APIs’, in WWW ’20 - Companion Proceedings. Taipei, Taiwan. 

8. Trilles, S., Granell, C., Degbelo, A. and Bhattacharya, D. (2020) ‘Interactive guidelines: public communication of data-based research in cities’, PLOS ONE. Edited by S. Rubinelli, 15(1), p. e0228008. 

9. Degbelo, A. and Teka, B. (2019) ‘Spatial search strategies for open government data: A systematic comparison’, in 13th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR’19). Lyon, France.

10. Pajarito, D., Degbelo, A. and Gould, M. (2019) ‘Collaboration or competition: the impact of incentive types on urban cycling’, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation.  [Demo]

11. Degbelo, A., Granell, C., Trilles, S., Bhattacharya, D. and Wissing, J. (2019) ‘Tell me how my open data is re-used: increasing transparency through the Open City Toolkit’, in Open Data | Open Cities.  [Demo]

12. Gupta, S., Hamzin, A. and Degbelo, A. (2018) ‘A low-cost open hardware system for collecting traffic data using Wi-Fi signal strength’, Sensors, 18(11), p. 3623.  

13. Gupta, S., Pebesma, E., Degbelo, A. and Costa, A. (2018) ‘Optimising citizen-driven air quality monitoring networks for cities’, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 7(12), p. 468. 

14. Gupta, S., Degbelo, A. and Pebesma, E. (2018) ‘Connecting citizens and housing companies for fine-grained air-quality sensing’, GI_Forum, 6(2), pp. 275–293. 

15. Granell, C., Bhattacharya, D., Casteleyn, S., Degbelo, A., Gould, M., Kray, C., Painho, M. and Trilles, S. (2018) ‘GEO-C: Enabling open cities and the Open City Toolkit’, in Proceedings of FOSS4G 2018 - Academic Track. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, pp. 61–68. 

16. Gupta, S., Pebesma, E., Mateu, J. and Degbelo, A. (2018) ‘Air quality monitoring network design optimisation for robust land use regression models’, Sustainability, 10(5), p. 1442. 

17. Gupta, S., Mateu, J., Degbelo, A. and Pebesma, E. (2018) ‘Quality of life, big data and the power of statistics’, Statistics & Probability Letters.  

18. Benitez-Paez, F., Degbelo, A., Trilles, S. and Huerta, J. (2018) ‘Roadblocks hindering the reuse of open geodata in Colombia and Spain: A data user’s perspective’, ISPRS International Journal of Geo- Information, 7(1), 6. 

19. Degbelo, A., Trilles, S., Kray, C., Bhattacharya, D., Schiestel, N., Wissing, J. and Granell, C. (2016) ‘Designing semantic application programming interfaces for open government data’, JeDEM - eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government, 8(2), pp. 21–58.

20. Degbelo, A., Bhattacharya, D., Granell, C. and Trilles, S. (2016). Toolkits for smarter cities: a brief assessment. In R. García, P. Caballero-Gil, M. Burmester, & A. Quesada-Arencibia (Eds.), UCAmI 2016 - 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing & Ambient Intelligence. Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain.

21. Degbelo, A., Granell, C., Trilles, S., Bhattacharya, D., Casteleyn, S. and Kray, C. (2016). Opening up smart cities: citizen-centric challenges and opportunities from GIScience. ISPRS International Journal of Geo- Information, 5(2), 16.

22. Degbelo, A., De Felice, G. and Lee, J. H. (2013). Integration of quantitative and qualitative geographic data for disaster response: research challenges. In Poster Session at GI_Forum 2013. Salzburg, Austria.

Ontology | Knowledge Graphs 

1. Bernard, L., Henzen, C., Degbelo, A., Nüst, D. and Seegert, J. (2023) ‘NFDI4Earth: improving research data management in the Earth System Sciences’, in Poster Session at CORDI 2023 (Conference on Research Data Infrastructures). Karlsruhe, Germany. 

2. Degbelo, A. (2020) ‘An ontology design pattern for geovisualization content description’, in 11th Workshop on Ontology Design Pattern (WOP@ISWC2020). [talk]

3. Degbelo, A. and Kuhn, W. (2018) ‘Spatial and temporal resolution of geographic information: an observation-based theory’, Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards, 3(1), p. 12. ** Waldo-Tobler Young Researcher Award** [ÖAW blogpost]

4. Degbelo, A. (2017) ‘A snapshot of ontology evaluation criteria and strategies’, in Proceedings of SEMANTICS 2017. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: ACM Press.

5. Scheider, S., Degbelo, A., Lemmens, R., van Elzakker, C., Zimmerhof, P., Kostic, N., … Banhatti, G. (2017). Exploratory querying of SPARQL endpoints in space and time. Semantic Web 8(1), pp. 65–86.

6. Scheider, S., Degbelo, A., Kuhn, W. and  Przibytzin, H. (2014). Content and context description - How linked spatio-temporal data enables novel information services for libraries. gis.Science, (04), 138–149.

7. Degbelo, A. and Kuhn, W. (2014). Five general properties of resolution. In Krzysztof, J, B. Adams, G. McKenzie, & T. Kauppinen (Eds.), Workshop on Geographic Information Observatories 2014 (held in conjunction with GIScience 2014 - 8th International Conference on Geographic Information Science ) (pp. 40–47). Vienna, Austria.

8. Degbelo, A. (2013). Modelling the spatial and temporal resolution of a sensor observation. In T. Jekel, A. Car, J. Strobl, & G. Griesebner (Eds.), GI_Forum 2013 - Creating the GISociety (pp. 71–80). Salzburg, Austria: Herbert Wichmann Verlag.

9. Degbelo, A. and Kuhn, W. (2012). A conceptual analysis of resolution. In V. Bogorny & L. Namikawa (Eds.), XIII Brazilian Symposium on Geoinformatics (pp. 11–22). Campos do Jordão, Brazil.  

10. Degbelo, A. (2012). An ontology design pattern for spatial data quality characterization in the semantic sensor web. In C. Henson, K. Taylor, & O. Corcho (Eds.), The 5th international workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (pp. 103–108). Boston, Massachusetts, USA: CEUR-WS.org.

11. Diaz, L., Remke, A., Kauppinen, T., Degbelo, A., Foerster, T., Stasch, C., … Wytzisk, A. (2012). Future SDI - Impulses from Geoinformatics research and IT trends. International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research, 7, 378–410.

12. Degbelo, A. and Stasch, C. (2011). Level of detail of observations in space and time. In M. J. Egenhofer, N. Giudice, R. Moratz, & M. Worboys (Eds.), Poster Session at Conference on Spatial Information Theory: COSIT’11. Belfast, Maine, USA.

13. Degbelo, A., Matongo, T. and Sandkuhl, K. (2010). Enterprise models as interface  for information searching. In P. Forbrig & H. Günther (Eds.), Perspectives in Business Informatics Research: 9th International Conference (pp. 27–42). Rostock, Germany: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Partially Reviewed | Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications 

1. Stöcker, C., Vassányi, G., Degbelo, A. and Kundert, K. (2023) ‘Community-based mapping with SmartLandMaps:  versatile, simple and inclusive’, in FIG 2023. Orlando, Florida, USA. 

2. Stöcker, C., Degbelo, A., Kundert, K., Oosterbroek, E. P., Houedji, I. A., Mensah, G. K. S., Gambadatoun, B. and Schwering, A. (2022) ‘Accelerating participatory land rights mapping with SmartLandMaps tools: Lessons learnt from Benin’, in FIG 2022. Warsaw, Poland.

3. Degbelo, A., Schmidt, B., Henzen, C., Lubahn, B., Zander, F., Maas, F., Lechler, S., Gerkowski, L. and Linde, S. (2022) ‘Themen, Trends und Visionen im Spannungsfeld Geo UX’, Kartographische Nachrichten - Fachberichte aus der Praxis.

4. Degbelo, A. and Kray, C. (2021) Interkulturelles Zusammenleben durch Freecycling-Apps fördern, Nach­(haltig)­gedacht - Der Blog des Zentrums für Interdisziplinäre Nachhaltigkeitsforschung. 

5. Degbelo, A., Stöcker, C., Kundert, K. and Chipofya, M. (2021) ‘SmartLandMaps - From customary tenure to land information systems’, in FIG e-Working Week 2021 – Challenges in a new Reality. [talk]

6. Degbelo, A. (2018) ‘Prospects of global open research’, in Rittman, M. (ed.) The Global Benefits of Open Research - The 2018 MDPI Writing Prize. MDPI, pp. 93–96. [author copy]

7. Trilles, S., Granell, C., Degbelo, A. and Bhattacharya, D. (2017) ‘Open City Toolkit:  el rol de las ciencias geoespaciales para la realización de ciudades abiertas y participativas’, Mapping: revista internacional de Ciencias de la Tierra. [author copy]

8. Degbelo, A. (2011). Estimating the spatial resolution of observation data in vector format. In A. Schwering & C. Kray (Eds.), Conference on Spatial Information Theory: COSIT’11 - Proceedings of the Doctoral Colloquium. Belfast, Maine, USA.

Edited Proceedings | Co-organized Workshops

1. Kessler, C., Granell, C., Oksanen, J. and Degbelo, A. (2024) ‘FAIR research objects in GIScience (FAIRROGI)’, in Co-located Workshop at the AGILE 2024 Conference. Glasgow, United Kingdom.

2. Lechler, S., Degbelo, A., Zander, F., Schmidt, B., Vuong, J. and Henzen, C. (2023) ‘Intuitive Kartenanwendungen für die Suche nach räumlicher Information’, in. GIS Day 2023, Online Event. 

3. Degbelo, A., Gerkowski, L., Henzen, C., Lechler, S., Linde, S., Lubahn, B., Maas, F., Schmidt, B. and Zander, F. (2022) ‘Interaktive und intelligente Karten für ein verbessertes Nutzererlebnis’, in Mensch und Computer 2022 - Workshopband. Darmstadt, Germany.

4. Henzen, C., Ostkamp, M., Degbelo, A., Helbig, C., Maas, F., Landerer, C., Schmidt, B., von den Driesch, S. and Zander, F. (2021) ‘Spatial is special - User Experience in Geo-Dashboards, Mobilen Karten und Kulturkreisen’, in Mensch und Computer 2021 - Workshopband. Ingolstadt, Germany. 

5. Ostkamp, M., Henzen, C. and Degbelo, A. (2019) ‘Spatial is special – Usability for open geodata’, in Mensch und Computer 2019 - Workshopband. Hamburg, Germany: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. 

6. Degbelo, A., Brink, J., Stasch, C., Chipofya, M., Gerkensmeyer, T., Humayun, M. I., … Lee, J. H. (Eds.). (2012). GI Zeitgeist 2012 - Proceedings of the young researchers forum on Geographic Information Science. Münster, Germany: AKA, Heidelberg, Germany.

Datasets

1. Degbelo, A., Trilles, S. and Bhattacharya, D. (2016) ‘Categories of datasets offered by current open data portals [Dataset]’. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1230160.

2. Degbelo, A., Du, G. and Kray, C. (2016) ‘Survey Results - Use of new technologies for citizen participation [Dataset]’. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1239387.

Theses

1. Degbelo, A. (2019). Leveraging georeferenced open government data. Habilitation Thesis, University of Münster. 

2. Degbelo, A. (2015). Spatial and temporal resolution of sensor observations. Dissertations in Geographic Information Science, IOS Press. [pdf]

3. Degbelo, A. and Matongo, T. (2009). Applying enterprise models as interface for information searching. Master’s Thesis, Jönköping University.