LBS Research Agenda is online

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The ICA Commission on Location Based Services is happy to announce that the LBS Research Agenda has been published online as an open access paper in the Journal of Location Based Services. For more details, please refer to https://lbs.icaci.org/research-agenda/. 

A multi-phase collaborative process was adopted during the development of this research agenda: Based on the 31 one-paragraph proposals of ‘“big challenges in LBS”, and the feedback and results of the workshop at LBS 2016 and conference session at ICC 2017, we identified a list of “key research challenges” that should be addressed to bring LBS to a higher level to better benefit our society and environment. Thank you to all the participants during this process!

The current research agenda highlights a series of research challenges in six broad areas: “Ubiquitous positioning”, “Context modelling and context-awareness”, “Mobile user Interfaces and interaction”, “Analysis of LBS-generated data”, “User studies and evaluation”, and “Social and behavioural implication of LBS”. As the research agenda is not set in stone, you are encouraged to provide your comments here.

We hope this research agenda helps to motivate further LBS research and stimulate collective efforts. Particularly, through the work of the ICA Commission on LBS and the Journal of LBS, a series of activities (conferences, workshops, and special issues) on LBS will be organized in the coming years to bring together the broader community to answer these open research questions, as well as to “positively” shape the future of our mobile information society.

One of these activities is the annual international conference series on LBS. Next year the conference will be hosted by TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, in November 2019. More details regarding the conference will be available in the coming months at http://lbsconferences.org.