papers  
   
refereed
 Fabrikant, S. I., Rebich-Hespanha, S., Hegarty, M. (accepted). Cognitively adequate and perceptually salient graphic displays for efficient spatial inference making. Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
Fabrikant, S. I., Rebich-Hespanha, S., Andrienko, N., Andrienko, G., and Montello, D. R. (2008). Novel Method to Measure Inference Affordance in Static Small Multiple Displays Representing Dynamic Processes. The Cartographic Journal, vol. 45, no. 3: 201-215.
Fabrikant, S. I., and Montello, D. R. (2008). The Effect of Instructions on Distance and Similarity Judgments in Information Spatializations. International Journal of Geographic Information Science, vol. 22, no. 4: 463-478.
Leuthold, H., Herrman, M., Fabrikant, S. I. (2007). Making the Political Landscape Visible: Mapping and Analyzing Voting Patterns in an Ideological Space. Environment and Planning B. Planning and Design. vol. 34, no. 5: 785-807.
Skupin A. and Fabrikant, S.I. (2007) Spatialization. In: Wilson, J. and Fotheringham, S. (Eds.). Handbook of Geographic Information Science. Blackwell Publishers.
  Fabrikant, S. I., Montello, D. R., and Mark, D. M. (2006). The Distance-Similarity Metaphor in Region-Display Spatializations, IEEE Computer Graphics & Application, July/August 2006: 34-44.
Fabrikant, S.I. (2005). Towards an understanding of geovisualization with dynamic displays: Issues and Prospects. Proceedings, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2005 Spring Symposium Series: Reasoning with Mental and External Diagrams: Computational Modeling and Spatial Assistance. Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Mar. 21-23, 2005: 6-11.
  Klippel, A., Lee, P. U., Fabrikant, S.I., Montello, D. R., & Bateman, J. (2005). The Cognitive Conceptual Approach as a Leitmotif for Map Design. Proceedings, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2005 Spring Symposium Series: Reasoning with Mental and External Diagrams: Computational Modeling and Spatial Assistance. Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Mar. 21-23, 2005:90-95.
  Fabrikant, S.I. and Skupin A. (2005). Cognitively Plausible Information Visualization. In: Dykes, J., MacEachren, A.M. & Kraak M. J. (eds). Exploring GeoVisualization. Amsterdam, Elsevier: 667-690.
  Fuhrmann, S., Ahonen, P., Edsall, R.M., Fabrikant, S.I., Koua, E.L., Tobon, C., Ware, C., Wilson S. (2005). Making Useful and Useable Geovisualization. In: Dykes, J., MacEachren, A.M. & Kraak M. J. (eds). Exploring GeoVisualization. Amsterdam: Elsevier: 553-566.
 

Fabrikant, S.I., Montello, D.R., Ruocco, M., Middleton, R.S. (2004). The Distance-Similarity Metaphor in Network-Display Spatializations. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, vol. 31, no. 4, 237-252.
  Fabrikant, S.I. (2004). Abstraction and Scale in Spatialization. Proceedings, Second National Cartographic Conference (GeoCart 2003). Taupo, New Zealand, Feb. 12-14, 2003: 35-43.
  Fabrikant, S.I. (2003). Distanz als Raummetapher für die Informationsvisualisierung. Distance as a spatial metaphor for the visualisation of information. Kartographische Nachrichten, vol. 52, no 6: 276-282. [appendix]
 

Montello, D. R., Fabrikant, S. I., Ruocco, M., Middleton, R. S. (2003). Testing the First Law of Cognitive Geography on Point-Display Spatializations. In: Spatial Information Theory: Foundations of Geographic Information Science. Proceedings, Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT '03). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2825. Kuhn, W., Worboys, M., & Timpf, S. (Eds.) Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany: 316-331.
  Skupin A. and Fabrikant, S.I. (2003). Spatialization Methods: A Cartographic Research Agenda for Non-Geographic Information Visualization. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, vol. 30, no. 2, 95-119.
  Fabrikant, S.I. (2003). Commentary on “A History of Twentieth-Century American Academic Cartography” by Robert McMaster and Susanna McMaster, Special Issue: Exploratory Essays: History of Cartography in the Twentieth Century, Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol. 30, No. 1: 81-84.
  Ancona, D. Freeston, M., Smith, T. R., Fabrikant, S. I. (2002): Visual Explorations for the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype. In: Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries 2002 (JCDL 2002 Workshop), Börner, K., Chaomei C. (eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2539, Springer Verlag, Berlin: 199-216.
  Fabrikant, S.I. (2001). Visualizing Region and Scale in Semantic Spaces. Proceedings, The 20th International Cartographic Conference, ICC 2001, Beijing, China, Aug. 6-10, 2001, pp. 2522-2529. (refereed abstract). Download presentation (PDF)
  Fabrikant, S.I. (2001). Evaluating the Usability of the Scale Metaphor for Querying Semantic Information Spaces. In: Spatial Information Theory: Foundations of Geographic Information Science. Proceedings, Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT '01), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2205, Montello D. R. (ed.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany: 156-171. (appendix and errata)
  Fabrikant, S. I. and Buttenfield, B. P. (2001). Formalizing Semantic Spaces for Information Access. Annals of the Association of American Geographers,91: 263-280.
 

Above Annals paper was heavily plagiarized by Eklund P.W. and Akamatsu H., an invited keynote given by Peter W. Eklund at the First International Symposium on Cyber Worlds (CW'02), Nov. 6-8, Tokyo, Japan, 2002. The paper was removed from the CW'02 conference proceedings.
  Fabrikant, S. I. (2000). Spatialized Browsing in Large Data Archives. Transactions in GIS, 4(1): 65-78.
  Fabrikant, S. I. and Buttenfield, B. P. (1997). Envisioning User Access to a Large Data Archive. Proceedings, GIS/LIS '97, Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 28-30, 1997: 686-692 (refereed abstract).
  (see also dissertation research page)
not refereed
 Harrower, M. and Fabrikant, S.I. (2008). The Role of Map Animation in Geographic Visualization. In: Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications. Dodge, M., Turner M., McDerby, M. (eds.). Chapter 4, Wiley, Chichester, U.K.
Fabrikant, S.I. and Josselin D. (2003). La «cartactive», cartographie en mouvement: un nouveau domaine de recherche pluridisciplinaire ou un plan de la géomatique? Revue Internationale de Géomatique, Numéro spécial «cartographie animée et interactive», vol. 13, no. 1, Hermès, Lavoisier, Paris: 7-14.
  Josselin, D. and Fabrikant S. I. (eds.) (2003). Revue Internationale de Géomatique, Numéro spécial «cartographie animée et interactive», vol. 13, no. 1, Hermès, Lavoisier, Paris.
  Skupin, A., Fabrikant, S.I., Couclelis, H. (2003). Spatialization: Spatial Metaphors and Methods for Handling Non-Spatial Data. UCGIS Research Priority 2002.
in preparation
 Fabrikant, S. I., Montello, D. R., and Mark, D. M. (2007). The Landscape Metaphor in Information Visualization.
books  
   
  Fabrikant, S. I., and Wachowicz, M. (Eds.) (2007). The European Information Society Leading the Way with Geo-information. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Germany. (ISBN: 978-3-540-72384-4)
special issues  
   
  Fabrikant S. I., and Lobben A. (eds.) (2009). Cognitive Issues in Geovisualization. Special Issue in Cartographica. (provisional: June 2009)
  Andrienko, G., Andrienko, N., Dykes, J., Fabrikant S. I., and Wachowicz, M. (2008). GeoVisualization of Dynamics, Movement and Change. Special Issue in Information Visualization, vol. 7, no. 3.
  Josselin, D. and Fabrikant S. I. (eds.) (2003). Revue Internationale de Géomatique, Numéro spécial «cartographie animée et interactive», vol. 13, no. 1, Hermès, Lavoisier, Paris.
conference presentations  
   
refereed (abstracts)
 Andrienko, G. L., Jern, M., Dykes, J., Fabrikant, S.I., Weaver, C. (2007). Geovisualization and synergies from InfoVis and Visual Analytics. Proceedings, 11th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV) 2007, Zürich, Switzerland, Jul. 2-6: 485-488.
Fabrikant, S. I., Montello, D. R., S. Rebich (2007). Seeing Through Small Multiple Map Displays. 23rd ICA/ACI International Cartographic Conference, Moscow, Russia Aug. 4-10, 2007 (CDROM)
Fabrikant, S.I. and Boughman, T. (2006). Communicating Data Quality through Realism (Poster), GIScience 2006, Münster, Germany, Sep. 20-23, 2006: 59-60.
Fabrikant, S.I., Montello, D. R., Rebich, S. (2006). The Look of Weather Maps, GIScience 2006, Münster, Germany, Sep. 20-23, 2006: 269-271.
  Fabrikant , S.I. and Goldsberry, K. (2005). Thematic relevance and perceptual salience of dynamic geovisualization displays. Proceedings, 22th ICA/ACI International Cartographic Conference, A Coruña, Spain, Jul. 9-16, 2005.
Boughman, T. and Fabrikant, S. I. (2004). Realism and Perceptions of Quality in Computer-Displayed Maps. GIScience 2004, College Park, MD, Oct. 20-24, 2004: 35-37.
Fabrikant, S. I. and Montello, D. R. (2004). Similarity and Distance in Information Spatializations (Poster). GIScience 2004, College Park, MD, Oct. 20-24, 2004: 279-281.
  Goldsberry, K., Fabrikant, S. I., Kyriakidis, P. (2004). The Influence of Classification Choice on Animated Choropleth Maps. Annual Meeting of the North American Cartographic Society, Portland, ME, Oct. 6-9, 2004.
Montello, D. R., Fabrikant* , S. I., Ruocco, M., Middleton, R. S. (2003). Testing the First Law of Cognitive Geography on Point-
Display Spatializations. Conference on Spatial Information Theory
(COSIT '03). Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland, Sep. 24-27, 2003. (*presenter).
Fabrikant, S. I., Montello, D. R., Ruocco, M., Middleton, R. (2003). The First Law of Cognitive Geography and Knowledge Domain Maps. Poster presented at the Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium on Mapping Knowledge Domains, National Academy of Sciences, Irvine, CA, May 9-11, 2003.
  Fabrikant, S. I. (with Phaedon Kyriakidis) (2002) Geovisualization of Large Databases and Spatial Uncertainty, 2002 Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM 2002), New York, New York, August 11 - 15, 2002.
Fabrikant, S. I., Ruocco, M., Middleton, R., Montello, D.R., Jörgensen, C. (2002). The First Law of Cognitive Geography: Distance and Similarity in Semantic Space. Proceedings, GIScience 2002, Boulder, CO, Sep. 25-28, 2002: 31-33.
Fabrikant, S. I. (2000b). The Geography of Semantic Information Spaces. GIScience 2000, Savannah, GA Oct. 28-31, 2000.
  Fabrikant, S. I. (2000a). The Ontology of Semantic Information Spaces. EuroConference on Ontology and Epistemology for Spatial Data Standards, La Londe-les-Maures, France, Sep. 22-27, 2000.
  Fabrikant, S. I. and Dodge, M. (2000). Maps and Charts to Represent the Flows of Information. Annual Meeting of the North American Cartographic Society, Knoxville, TN, Oct. 12-14, 2000.
  Fabrikant, S.I., Jorgensen, C., and Badurek, C. A. (2000). Creating an Immersive Information Space Based on a Spatial Metaphor. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) 2000, vol. 13, 2000, Chicago, IL.
not refereed

Fabrikant, S. I. (2008). Enduring Design for Fleeting Displays. Special Session: Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization I: Methods. Annual Meetingof the American Geographers, Boston, MA, Mar. 15-19, 2008.
Fabrikant, S. I., Montello, D. R., S. Rebich (2007). Seeing Through Small Multiple Map Displays. From Geovisualization toward Geovisual Analytics, International Cartographic Association Workshop, Commission on GeoVisualization, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland, Aug. 2-3, 2007.
 

Fabrikant, S. I. (2007). Seeing through small multiple map displays. Special Session: Visual Analytics in Geography I. Annual Meeting of the American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, Mar. 17-21, 2007.
Fabrikant, S.I. (2007). Aus der Werkstatt einer Kartenmacherin. Invited talk. Interdisziplinäre Fachtagung, Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald. Der Kartograph und sein Leser: Die Produktion und Rezeption von Karten von der frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Greifswald, Germany, Mar. 19-21, 2007.
Fabrikant, S.I. (2007). Karten & Raumkognition: empirische Forschungsbeispiele und Resultate. Invited talk. 14. Internationale Geodätische Woche. Obergurgl, Austria, Feb. 11-17, 2007.
Fabrikant, S.I. (2006). Thematic Relevance and Perceptual Salience in Static Weather Maps. Annual Meeting of the American Geographers, Chicago, IL, Mar. 7-11, 2006.
Fabrikant, S.I. (2006). Thematische Relevanz und Wahrnehmungssalienz in Karten, In: Dodt, J. und Rase, W.-D. (Eds.) Aktuelle Entwicklungen in Geoinformation und Visualisierung, GEOVIS 2006, Apr. 5.-6, 2006,
Potsdam, Germany:115.
Fabrikant, S.I. (2005). How can spatial cognition inform GIScience, and how can GIScience inform spatial cognition? Invited talk. Dagstuhl Seminar No. 05491: Spatial Cognition: Specialization and Integration. International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science, Dec. 4-9, 2005, Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany.
Fabrikant, S.I. (2004). Karten als räumliche Metaphern. Invited talk. 45. Deutscher Historikertag, Kiel, Germany, Sep. 14-17, 2004. (reviewed in German here)
Fabrikant, S.I. (2004). Spatialization: Explorative Datenanalyse mit Räumlichen Metaphern. Invited talk. Symposium Perspektiven der Quantitativen Geographie im Bereich sozio-ökonomischer Aspekte der Mensch/Umwelt-Beziehung. University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, May 3, 2004.
Fabrikant, S.I. (2004). Spatialization: Using spatial metaphors to represent non-spatial information. Invited talk. University of Redlands/ESRI GIS colloquium series, Redlands, CA Feb. 11, 2004.
  Fabrikant, S.I. (2003). Spatial Metaphors in Abstract Information Worlds. Invited talk. International Advanced Workshop on Virtual Geographic Environments and Geocollaboration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT. Hong Kong SAR, Dec. 15-16, 2003.
  Fabrikant, S. I. (2003). Cognitively Plausible Information Visualization. Invited lecture. Queen's University GIS Lab, Kingston, Canada, Mar. 25, 2003.
  Fabrikant, S. I. (2003). Spatialized Browsing in Large Data Archives. Invited seminar. Queen's Centre for Knowledge-Based Enterprises (KBE), Kingston, Canada, Mar. 26, 2003.
  Fabrikant, S. I. (2003). Distance and Similarity in Semantic Networks. Special Session on Spatialization I and II. Annual Meeting of the American Geographers, New Orleans, LA, Mar. 5-8, 2003.
  Fabrikant, S. I. (2003) Spatialization: Charting the Sea of Information (invited keynote). Second National Cartographic Conference (GeoCart 2003). Taupo, New Zealand, Feb. 12-14, 2003.
  Fabrikant, S. I. (2002) GIScientifically Informed Information Visualization. Invited lecture. Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London (UCL), London U.K., Sep. 11, 2002.
  Fabrikant, S. I. (2002). RePresentation (invited keynote). EuroConference on Methods to Define Geovisualisation Contents for Users Needs, Albufueira, Portugal, Mar. 9 - 14, 2002 (more papers...).
  Haug, D. and Fabrikant, S. I. (2002). Interactive Spatialized Visualization of Hierarchical Clustering. Special Session on Spatialization I and II. Annual Meeting of the American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, Mar. 20-23, 2002.
  Fabrikant, S. I. (2002). Empirical Approaches to Semi-Immersive Spatialization Designs. Special Session on Spatialization I and II. Annual Meeting of the American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, Mar. 20-23, 2002.
  Fabrikant, S. I. (2001). Regionalization and Scale Dependence in Semantic Information Spaces. Annual Meeting of the Assoc. of the American Geographers, New York, NY, Feb. 27-Mar. 3, 2001.
  Fabrikant, S. I. (2000). Cartographic Considerations for Designing Information Spaces. Annual Meeting of the Assoc. of the American Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA, Apr. 4-8, 2000.
  Fabrikant, S. I. (1998). Spatialized Browsing in Large Data Archives. Annual Meeting of the Assoc. of the American Geographers, Boston, MA, Mar. 25 -29, 1998, p. 236. Voted AAG GIS Specialty Group (AAG GISSG) best student paper.
  Fabrikant, S. I. (1994). Alternative Visualisation of Spatial Data. VI Annual EGEA Congress, Voesu, Estonia.
workshops  
   
 refereed
 Lautenschütz, A.K. and Fabrikant, S.I. (2008). Towards a cognitive conceptual framework of movement. AGILE 2008 Conference workshop on GeoVisualization of Dynamics, Movement and Change, Girona, Spain, May 5, 2008.
Fabrikant, S.I. (2004). Image and Meaning 2. MIT School of Science, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, Jun. 23-25, 2005.
not refereed
 Fabrikant, S. I. 2007. Sequence Analysis of Eye Movement Data. Second Eye Tracking and Multimedia Workshop (ETMW ’07), Dijon, France, Nov. 22-23, 2007.
Fabrikant, S. I. (2005). Position Statement (invited). EnVISION 2005, Silicon Graphics Campus, Jan. 19, 2005, Mountain View, CA.
Fabrikant, S.I. (2003). Dealing with the Distance-Similarity Metaphor for Knowledge Discovery and Visualization of Very Large Databases. White Paper. UCGIS Geospatial Visualization and Knowledge Discovery Workshop. National Conference Center, Lansdowne, Virginia, November 18-20, 2003
  Fabrikant, S.I., Skupin, A., Couclelis, H. (2002). Spatialization: Spatial Metaphors and Methods for Handling Non-Spatial Data. UCGIS Research Challenge 2002. Submission for the UCGIS Summer Assembly, Athens, GA, Jun. 26-30, 2002. (selected as one of the 19 new research priorities).
  Fabrikant, S. I. (2001). The Use of Location-based Services in Distributed Collaborative Visualization Environments. Position Statement for the Specialist Meeting on Location-based Services, hosted by the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS), Dec. 14-15, Santa Barbara, CA.
  Fabrikant, S. I. (2001). Building Task-Ontologies for GeoVisualization. ICA Commission on Visualization and Virtual Environment Pre-conference Workshop: geovisualization on the Web, Beijing, China, Aug. 3-4, 2001. Download presentation (PDF)
  Fabrikant, S. I. (2000) Transitions from Childhood to the Workforce. Position Statement for the GeoEd Meeting, Santa Barbara, CA, May 27-28, 2000, hosted by the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA), Dec. 14-15, Santa Barbara, CA.

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