Overview and introduction of the Location and the Web (LocWeb2018) workshop at WWW2018 http://dhere.de/locweb2018/

1. LocWeb 2018
8th International Workshop on Location and the Web
at
The Web Conference – WWW 2018
Lyon, France
45°47′08′′N 4°51′23′′E

3. Organizers
Dirk Ahlers
NTNU
Trondheim, Norway
Erik Wilde
CA Technologies
Switzerland
Rossano Schifanella
University of Turin
Italy
[Workshop on Location and
the Web (LocWeb)]
Jalal S. Alowibdi
University of Jeddah
Saudi Arabia
Muhammad Zubair Shafiq
University of Iowa
USA
[Workshop on Social
Computing (IWSC) – Spatial
Social Behavior Analytics on
the Web]

4. Programme Committee
• Andreas Henrich, Universität Bamberg,
Germany
• Arjen de Vries, Radboud University
• Bart Thomee, Google, USA
• Bruno Martins, University of Lisbon, Portugal
• Carsten Keßler, Hunter College, City
University of New York
• Chien-wen Shen, National Central University
Taiwan, Taiwan
• Claudia Hauff, Delft University, Netherlands
• Clodoveu Davis, Universidade Federal de
Minas Gerais, Brazil
• David Shamma, FXPAL
• Francisco López-Pellicer, Universidad
Zaragoza, Spain
• Leonidas Anthopoulos, TEI of Thessaly,
Greece
• Lisette Espín-Noboa, GESIS – Leibniz-
Institute for the Social Sciences
• Luca Maria Aiello, Bell Labs
• Muhammad Murtaza Khan, University of
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• Muhammad Usman Ilyas, University of
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• Rainer Simon, AIT Austrian Institute for
Technology
• Salem Alelyani, King Khalid University,
Saudi Arabia
• Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University, UK
• Torsten Suel, NYU Poly
• Yana Volkovich, Appnexus

5. LocWeb 2018
• Location-aware information
access
• Web-scale services and systems
• Spatial Social Behavior Analytics
on the Web, social computing
• Cross-cutting issue in Web
research
– Search, retrieval, analytics, mining,
extraction, mobility, apps, services,
systems
• Interdisciplinary perspective

6. Schedule9:10 – 10:20 Session 1
• Opening
• Keynote New Opportunities for Research in the “Lost World” of Location-based Services.
Tassos Noulas (New York University)
11:00 – 12:20 Session 2
• 11:00 Venice through the Lens of Instagram – A Visual Narrative of Tourism in Venice
Luca Rossi, Eric Boscaro, Andrea Torsello
• 11:30 A location-based virtual reality application for mountain peak detection
Antonio La Salandra, Piero Fraternali, Darian Frajberg
• 12:00 WeGovNow: a map based platform to engage the local civic society
Guido Boella, Louise Francis, Elena Grassi, Axel Kistner, Andreas Nitsche, Alexey Noskov, Luigi
Sanasi, Adriano Savoca, Claudio Schifanella, Ioannis Tsampoulatidis
13:40 – 15:00 Session 3
• 13:40 The WWW (and an H) of Mobile Application Usage in the City – The What, Where,
When, and How
Eduardo Graells-Garrido, Diego Caro, Omar Miranda, Rossano Schifanella, Oscar F. Peredo
• 14:10 Travel Itinerary Recommendations with Must-see Points-of-Interest
Kendall Taylor, Kwan Hui Lim, Jeffrey Chan
• 14:40 Discussion Session, Open Questions, Future Work
• 15:00 Closing

7. Contact
• http://dhere.de/locweb2018/
• @locweb
• #locweb2018
• #www2018
• #TheWebConf

8. Discussion

9. Lyon Location Details
• Location (use) is highly local
• Details can be surprising
• Understand the city?
• What did you discover?
• [How well did you find this
room?]
• [traboules in Vieux Lyon]
• [spatial orientation around the
hills]
• [public transportation? not on
maps.google, but on bing]

10. Lyon Location Details
• Location (use) is highly local
• Details can be surprising
• Understand the city?
• What did you discover?
• [How well did you find this
room?]
• [traboules in Vieux Lyon]
• [spatial orientation around the
hills]
• [public transportation? not on
maps.google]

11. Lyon Location Details
• Location (use) is highly local
• Details can be surprising
• Understand the city?
• What did you discover?
• [How well did you find this
room?]
• [traboules in Vieux Lyon]
• [spatial orientation around the
hills]
• [public transportation? not on
google maps, but on bing]
[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traboule#/media/File:Traboule_courtyard_A_Ly
on.jpg User:Chris_73]

12. Open Issues
• What is exciting?
• What is difficult?
• What is challenging?
• What should we work on?

13. Thoughts for LocWeb201*
• What did you expect, what new things did
you learn?
• Things you liked (not?) at LocWeb?
• Room for improvement?
• Particular ideas for next edition?

14. Follow-up
• http://dhere.de/locweb2018/
– Linking papers from ACM DL and WWW
• Make slides available, please!
– And send link
• @locweb
• Work on open issues

15. Keep in touch!
LocWeb 2018
The Web Conference – WWW 2018
Lyon, France
45°47′08′′N 4°51′23′′E
dhere.de/locweb2018/
@locweb