Held in 2022 at Ruhr-Universät Bochum, in 2019 at TU Wien and in 2014 at the University of Essex, this multidisciplinary workshop will be take place in Paris in 2025, bringing together researchers and practitioners working on schematic maps of transit networks and beyond, including graphic designers, cartographers psychologists, computer scientists and transport professionals.

The pdf version of the Call for Papers can be downloaded here.

The program of the workshop can be downloaded here.

Registration is open and should be done here and before the 7th April 2024. Please pay attention to the fact that we have a limit for the participation (40 persons). Once this figure is attained, we will close the registration. Contributors should also register.

Participants will be asked to contribute 80 € for the two days or 50€ for a single day (We are working to secure a reduction on this).

Submissions are invited on the following, or related topics:

• Methods for evaluating map quality
• Theoretical approaches to usability and its measurement
• Results of usability and user-experience studies
• Cross-cultural differences in designing and using schematic maps
• New methods and algorithms for automatic layout of schematic maps
• Computer software that for assisting designers in the creation of schematic maps
• Theories of network schematics
• Schematic mapping implemented on portable devices
• Interactive and dynamic schematic maps
• Impact of schematic maps on transit use and operations
• The role of cognitive psychology in designing and understanding schematics
• Critiques of existing schematics
• New approaches to schematic mapping, such as use of atypical design rules
• Historical approaches to mapping transport systems
• The use of schematic maps beyond transit domains

We invite the following contributions; all will be submitted to peer review:

• Regular papers will present original research, submitted as a four-page manuscript. Accepted papers will be presented orally.
• Posters will summarize current projects or new techniques at an early stage of development, submitted as a two-page summary. Accepted posters will be exhibited at the workshop.
• Designs that implement fresh approaches to mapping are welcome, submitted as a one-page description plus one-page image. Accepted designs will be exhibited at the workshop.
• Position papers will be solicited by the program committee, but proposals for these are welcome, contact the organizers directly. The length is normally eight pages. Contact the conrresponding program committee or organizers when more pages are needed.
• Workshop activities will also be considered, contact the organizers directly.

* Note that all page limits exclude the reference pages.

Accepted contributions will be made available electronically on this website as a collection of preprints: authors will retain copyright.

All submissions must be formatted using the IEEE conference format. Templates are available here both for LaTeX and for Microsoft Word. Submissions are accepted as PDF files only. The workshop proceedings will be published online as a collection of preprints.

Regular Papers:

• Challenges raised by the implementation of topographic, anamorphic and shrivelled cartographic models as supports to human route selection tasks [pdf]
• The influence of different cartographic materials on the cognitive processing of geographical time-space: an empirical study [pdf]
• On the Sense of Direction in Urban Navigation [pdf]
• Disintegrating Automated Transit Map Design: An Algorithmic Core for Fast Layout Iteration [pdf]
• Using Forced-Journey Choice Methodology to Investigate the Usability of Octolinear Versus Concentric Circles Transit Maps [pdf]

• Integrating Art and Functionality: A Study of Yoshida Hatsusaburo's Panoramic Transit Maps [pdf]
• Round in Circles and Back Again: Concentric Circles Maps Twelve Years On [pdf]
• Mental and schematic maps: back and forth between basic and applied research [pdf]

Poster & Design:

• An online tool for Schematic Mapping in Geography education [pdf]  
• Trams in Saint Petersburg: A schematic map design for one of the world's largest tram networks [pdf][design]

The workshop will take place in the premises of the Ecole d'Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris located 80 rue Rébeval, 75019 Paris. The neighbourhood is a typical East Parisian quarter, in the 19th arrondissement, full of cafés, restaurants and nice places to visit.

Workshop Co-Chairs

• Valérie Gyselinck, Université Gustave Eiffel, France
• Alain L'Hostis, Université Gustave Eiffel, France
• Simone Morgagni, SNCF, France
• Martin Nöllenburg, TU Wien, Austria
• Maxwell Roberts, University of Essex, United Kingdom
• Hsiang-Yun Wu, St. Pölten UAS, Austria

Program Committee

• Masatoshi Arikawa, Akita University, JP
• Patrick Brosi, Universität Freiburg, DE
• Sara I. Fabrikant, University of Zurich, CH
• David Forrest, University of Glasgow, UK
• Georg Gartner, TU Wien, AT
• Min Lu, Akita, University, JP
• Daniel Montello, University of California, USA
• Angela Schwering, University of Munster, DE
• Soeren Terziadis, Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
• Guillaume Touya, Université Gustave Eiffel, IGN, ENSG, FR

Schematic Mapping 2022
Schematic Mapping 2019
Schematic Mapping 2014

For enquires about the workshop, email:
smw2025@sciencesconf.org

Submission of final versions:
28th February 2025

Registration closes
7th April 2025

all midnight, UTC