Category: Talks

Towards a NeuroSpatial Insight Engine, University of Helsinki, 20.11.2025 The NeuroSpatial Interaction Engine (NSIE) is a novel integrative framework designed to model human-environment interactions through biosignals and brain activity. By combining EEG, heart rate, and wearable sensor data with GeoAI, schema-driven adaptive design, and latent sequence learning, NSIE captures cognitive and affective responses to spatial stimuli. It Read more

Embedding Geography: Spatial Representation Learning for Foundation Models, Aalto University, 14.11.2025 The rise of large-scale pre-trained models, also known as foundation models, has sparked great interest within the geospatial and urban analytics communities. Despite their impressive capabilities, general-purpose foundation models remain limited in performing complex geospatial analyses. This reveals the need for developing dedicated geospatial Read more

The Digital Geography Lab in the Department of Geosciences and Geography, Faculty of Science celebrated its 15th Anniversary in 2025 with a special seminar presenting the current research of the lab, with stakeholder commentaries, and  providing glimpses into the past and future of spatial big data research in Finland, Europe and beyond. The seminar was Read more

Don’t throw the baby out with the water! Echos of humanspatial and information behavior in exhaust data, Aalto University, 13.9.2024 As spatial research is increasingly moving to analytics of large datasets that have not been directly collected for the exact purpose for which they are used, possibly generated as by-products (exhaust data), strong attention has Read more

Challenges in Transitioning the UK to ‘Net-Zero’ – Some observations from Housing and Transport, Aalto University, 30.8.2024 Journey away from a reliance on fossil fuels and lower or net-zero-carbon existences. In the United Kingdom, two of the biggest sectors where reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are imperative are domestic transport and housing. Between them, these Read more

Place Representation and Place Communication – A Challenge for Geographical Information Science, University of Helsinki, Aalto University, 21.5.2024 Places form an integral part of our everyday lives. We live them as a home, as a workplace, and in many other ways. Place-making, that is, the process that generates places, regularly involves the representation and communication Read more

Big Data and Geospatial Technologies for Health Research, University of Helsinki 24.11.2023 The rapid development and widespread use of advanced geospatial technologies such as GPS, remote sensing, mobile sensing, and location-aware devices in recent years have greatly facilitated the acquisition of enormous amounts of high-resolution space-time data.To build smart and healthy cities, we need to Read more

Place, Privacy, and Mobility: Navigating the Intersection of Location Science and Human Dynamics University of Helsinki, 8.11.2023 Abstract. In recent years, computational representations of place have significantly evolved. While space undeniably remains the core dimension in the complex, multi-dimensional concept of place, emerging research has delved deeper into additional dimensions, leveraging new sources of data Read more

Understanding cities by urban sensing and analytics, Aalto University 17.10.2023 Abstract. In recent years, various sensing technologies such as mobile phones, street scanning,stationary/portable sensors, and remote sensing have been used to understand our cities in an extreme high spatio-temporal resolution. The urban sensing technologies not only provide the new forms of data/digital footprints data in Read more

Crowdsourced Data for Active Transportation Planning. University of Helsinki. 1.6.2023 Read more