This symposium is addressed to researchers, industry / market operators and students of different backgrounds (scientific, engineering and humanistic) whose work is either focused on or affined to Location Based Services (LBS). The symposium will offer a common ground to bring together colleagues from various disciplines and practice where they can meet, interact and exchange knowledge, experience, plans and ideas on how LBS can and could be improved and on how it will influence both science and society.


Topics - We invite contributions in the following areas:

Positioning / Indoor positioning
Smart environments and spatial intelligence
Spatio-temporal data acquisition, processing, and analysis
Data mining and knowledge discovery
Personalization and context-aware adaptation
Visualization techniques for LBS
Novel user interfaces and interaction techniques
Smart mobile phone navigation and LBS technologies
Three-dimensional visualization in the LBS context
Augmented reality in an LBS context
Innovative LBS systems and applications
Wayfinding / Navigation (indoor / outdoor)
Indoor Navigation Databases
User studies and evaluations
Privacy and ethical issues in LBS
Usability issues in LBS
Legal and business aspects in LBS
LBS and Web 2.0
Open source solutions and standards