题目:　　  Tracking Individuals - A Space-Time GIS Approach

报告人:　　Dr. Shih-Lung Shaw, Professor and Head, Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, U.S.A.

时间:　　　5月20日（周三）下午2：30

地点:　　　2321会议室

报告人简介：

Dr. Shih-Lung Shaw is Professor and Head of the Department of Geography at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in geography from The Ohio State University and his B.S. degree in geography from National Taiwan University. His research interests focus mainly on geographic information science (GIScience) and transportation. His book of Geographic Information Systems for Transportation: Principles and Applications with Harvey Miller (Oxford University Press, 2001) is widely recognized in the field of GIS for transportation (GIS-T). In recent years, Dr. Shaw has been working on extending the classical time geography for studies of human activities and interactions in a hybrid physical-virtual world due to the use of modern information and communication technologies (ICT) such as mobile phones and the Internet. His ongoing U.S. National Science Foundation’s grant has led to several publications on this research topic and the development of a space-time GIS for representation, analysis, and visualization of individual activities and interactions in a hybrid physical-virtual space.

In 2008, Dr. Shaw was elected to a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS)*. He also received the Edward L. Ullman Award for outstanding contributions to transportation geography from the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in 2008. In 2009, he received a Chancellor’s Research and Creative Achievement Award from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Shaw served as the Chair of the Transportation Geography Specialty Group and the Secretary/Treasurer of the GIS Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers in the past. He has been invited to give presentations at various workshops and institutions over the years. Dr. Shaw holds appointments of a Research Fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Guest Professor at Wuhan University, China. In addition, he has been invited as a visiting scholar to the State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System (LREIS) in the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in recent years.