The 6th Symposium on Human Dynamics Research
2020 AAG Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado
April 6-10, 2020
Call for Paper/Panel Sessions
Sponsored by the following AAG Specialty Groups:
· Applied Geography
· Cyberinfrastructure
· Geographic Information Science and Systems
· Regional Development and Planning
· Spatial Analysis and Modeling
· Transportation Geography
With accelerated technological advancements and convergence, there have been major changes in how people carry out their activities and how they interact with each other. With these changes in both technology and human behavior, it is an imperative to improve our understanding of human dynamics in order to tackle the challenges ranging from climate change, public health, traffic congestion, economic growth, to digital divide, social equity, political movements, and cultural conflicts, among others. Following five successful years of a human dynamics symposium at the AAG meetings (2015 – 2019) that led to the publication of three special issues in leading journals and a new book series on Human Dynamics in Smart Cities, we will continue this “Symposium on Human Dynamics Research” at 2020 AAG annual meeting in Denver, Colorado to engage researchers with interests in different aspects of human dynamics research from interdisciplinary perspectives. We welcome proposals of organizing paper/panel sessions related to human dynamics as part of this “Symposium on Human Dynamics Research” at 2020 AAG annual meeting. We are particularly interested in topics related to the future of work during the Denver AAG meeting. Below are some sample topics for paper/panel sessions of this symposium. You are encouraged to propose additional paper/panel sessions in your areas of expertise and interest.
· Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: The Future of Work in the Age of Robotics
· Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Human Dynamics and GeoAI
· Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Smart Cities and Urban Computing
· Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Social Media and Big Data
· Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Spatial Humanities
· Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Spatial-Social Networks and Network Science
· Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Time Geography
· Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Geography/GIScience Education and Lifetime Learning
Each session organizer will handle the call for presentations and coordinate abstract submissions among the presenters in his/her session(s). Please name your session(s) with a prefix of “Symposium on Human Dynamics Research”, followed by a subtitle of your specific session (see sample session titles above), such that the attendees can easily find all sessions of this Symposium. We request session organizers email the title, abstract, and PIN of papers/panelists in each proposed session to Shih-Lung Shaw (sshaw@utk.edu) by the abstract submission deadline announced by the AAG such that we can work with the AAG office to schedule the sessions of this symposium. Please contact Shih-Lung Shaw (sshaw@utk.edu), Dan Sui (dsui@uark.edu), or Xinyue Ye (xye@njit.edu) if you are interested in organizing paper/panel sessions as part of this symposium or if you have any questions.
Organization Committee:
Shih-Lung Shaw (Chair), University of Tennessee, sshaw@utk.edu
Daniel Sui (Co-Chair), University of Arkansas, dsui@uark.edu
Xinyue Ye (Co-Chair), New Jersey Institute of Technology, xye@njit.edu
Kajsa Ellegård, Linköping University, Sweden
Donald Janelle, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Bandana Kar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Zhenlong Li, University of South Carolina, USA
Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
May Yuan, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
