Prof. Dr. Sebastian Meier

• since October 2021
  Professor for the design of knowledge transfer, Design department  at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Interface and Product Design programme
• 2019 - 2021
  Visiting Professor for Geovisualisation, HafenCity University Hamburg
• 2019 - 2020
  Scientific Director, CityLab Berlin
• 2017 - 2020
  Lead Data Scientist, Technology Foundation Berlin
• 2016 - 2017
  HCI & Data Visualisation, Interaction Design Lab, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
• 2014 - 2017
  PhD Geoinformatics, University of Potsdam
• 2012 - 2014
  HCI & Data Visualisation, Interaction Design Lab, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
• 2012 - 2019
  Lecturer for Interface Design, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
• 2011 - 2021
  Project and design lead, IxDS, Berlin
• 2011
  Master Interface Design, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
• 2009 - 2011
  Lecturer for generative design, University of Applied Sciences Trier
• 2009
  Lecturer for Interactive Systems, University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf
• 2009
  Diploma in communication design, University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf
• since 2007
  Self-employed VISLAB.io (e.g. Tonic Vision Ltd. (London), IxDS (Berlin), Fraunhofer Fokus, FH Düsseldorf, IASS Potsdam, Technologiestiftung Berlin, Leibnitz Institute)

2021

• Goodwin S, Meier S, Bartram L, Godwin A, Nagel T, Dörk M. Unravelling the Human Perspective and Considerations for Urban Data Visualization. In2021 IEEE 14th Pacific Visualisation Symposium (PacificVis) 2021 Apr 19 (pp. 126-130). IEEE.
• Sebastian Meier, Inga Schlegel, Jochen Schiewe (2021) Potentials of Open Weather Data in the Smart City Context: An Exploration of Open Data from the German Weather Service (DWD) and Case Studies of Data-Driven Smart City Applications Perspectives in Metropolitan Research, 6 (p 128-143). JOVIS; Publisher.
• Sebastian Meier, Fabian Dinklage, Katrin Glinka (2021) Personalisation of Data-Driven Storytelling Abstracts of the International Cartographic Conference 2021.

2019

• Meier, S., Tost, J. (2019) On the relevance of cartography – An interaction design perspective, Proceedings of the ICC 2019.

2018

• Meier, S., Glinka, K. (2018) Data-driven personal cartographic perspectives. Cartographic News, (13/8).
• Meier, S., Seibel, B. (2018) Zivilgesellschaftlichen Mehrwert schaffen – Daten für Bürger*innen aufbereiten. Magazine by the Office for statistics Berlin-Brandenburg.

2017

• Meier, S. (2017) Personal Big Data. University of Potsdam.
• Meier, S., Glinka, K. (2017) The Individual in the Data – the Aspect of Personal Relevance. i-com 2017; 16(3): pp. 247-265.
• Meier, S., Glinka, K. (2017) Psychogeography in the Age of the Quantified Self-Mental Map Modelling with Georeferenced Personal Activity Data. LNG&C – Advances in Cartography and GIScience.
• Meier, S. (2017) Visualisations in Online News – and Their Effect on Perceived Credibility. Cartographic News, special issue 02/2017.

2016

• Meier, S. (2016) Enhancing Location Recommendation Through Proximity Indicators, Areal Descriptors, and Similarity Clusters. LNG&C - Progress in Location-Based Services 2016, Springer.
• Meier, S., Nagel, T., Heidmann, F. (2016) Open Geo Tools – A State of the Art Report. The democratisation of geo-tools and data continues. Proceedings of the 64th German Cartography conference.
• Meier, S. (2016) The Marker Cluster: A Critical Analysis and a New Approach to a Common Web-based Cartographic Interface Pattern. International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS), Volume 7, Issue 1, January - March 2016.
• Beecham, R., Rooney, C., Meier, S., Dykes, J., Slingsby, A., Turkay, C., Wood, J. and Wong, B. (2016) Faceted Views of Varying Emphasis (FaVVEs): a framework for visualising multi-perspective small multiples. Computer Graphics Forum: the international journal of the Eurographics Association, 35(3) pp.241-249.

2015

• Thom, A.; Meier, S.; Heidmann, F. (2015) Anforderungsanalyse bei IT-Experten mittels Experience-Sample-Methode. In: Endmann, A., Fischer, H. & Krökel, M. (Hrsg.), Mensch und Computer 2015 – Usability Professionals. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. (S. 133-143).
• Sebastian Meier (2015) Visualising Large Spatial Time Series Data on Mobile Devices: Combining the HeatTile System with a Progressive Loading Approach. Proceedings of the ICC 2015, Cartography – Maps Connecting the World (Springer).
• Andreas Thom, Sebastian Meier, Frank Heidmann (2015) Anforderungsanalyse bei IT-Experten mittels Experience-Sample-Methode. In: Endmann, A., Fischer, H. & Krökel, M. (Hrsg.), Mensch und Computer 2015 – Usability Professionals. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. (S. 133-143).
• Katrin Glinka, Sebastian Meier and Marian Dörk (2015) Visualising the "Un seen": Towards Critical Approaches and Strategies of Inclusion in Digital Cultural Heritage Interfaces (PDF).
• Kultur und Informatik 2015 (Culture and Computer Science), vwh, pages 105-117, May 2015.

2014

• Sebastian Meier (2014) The Micro Smart Grid Tabletop – A real world case study for tangible multitouch technologies for communicating complex concepts. Published in the Workshop Proceedings of the workshop Tactile/Haptic User Interfaces for Tabletops and Tablets (TacTT) 2014 during the ITS conference 2014 in Dresden.
• Sebastian Meier, Frank Heidmann, Andreas Thom (2014) A comparison of location search UI patterns on mobile devices. In Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Mobile HCI, 2014.
• Andreas Thom, Frank Heidmann, Sebastian Meier (2014) Interkulturelle Nutzeranforderungen erheben. Für Mensch und Maschine, UP14.
• Sebastian Meier, Frank Heidmann (2014) Too Many Markers, Revisited: An Empirical Analysis of Web-Based Methods for Overcoming the Problem of Too Many Markers in Zoomable Mapping Applications. In Proceedings of Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA), 2014.
• Sebastian Meier, Frank Heidmann, Andreas Thom (2014) Heattile, a New Method for Heatmap Implementations for Mobile Web-based Cartographic Applications. In Thematic Cartography for the Society (Springer), 2014.

2012

• Sebastian Meier, Johannes Landstorfer, Julia Werner, Reto Wettach, Andre Knörig, Jonathan Cohen, Andreas Sommerwerk (2012) A Real-world Mobile Prototyping Framework for Location-and Context-based Services. Published at the Wireless Communication and Information (WCI) – Berlin, 2012.