General

Otto Huisman gained his Master of Science from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 1995. He completed his Doctoral work in the School of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Auckland, primarily supervised by Professor Pip Forer. During this time he developed a significant teaching portfolio within the University's programme in Geographic Information Science as a Senior Tutor, lecturing at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In 2004 he moved to a position as a project manager/GIS analyst at the Centre for Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation (SHORE) at Massey University, where he was engaged on a range of research grants related to mobility, accessibility and health-related issues. He was also involved in private consulting work for a GIS implementation project.

Otto made the significant move from New Zealand to come and work in the Department of Geo-Information Processing (GIP) at ITC in 2006, and has since been involved in teaching and development of various courses including programming, spatial databases, spatial data infrastructures, time in GIS, and MSc research supervision. He has since travelled to Ghana and Tanzania for teaching and evaluation of various Joint Education Projects (JEPs).

Otto is currently coordinator of the GeoInformatics core GIS programming skills course, and has been appointed as editor of the 4th Edition of the ITC GIS textbook 'Principles of GIS'.

Activities in Education

1998 - 2003: Auckland University, New Zealand

2006 � present: ITC Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the University of Twente

Diploma in GIS Operation courses (GFM4)

• Principles of Programming 2006 - (coordinator, lecturer)
• Spatial Databases 2006- (lecturer)
• Spatial Analysis 2006- (lecturer)
• Integrated Group Project 2007 (supervisor GIS specialization)
• Individual Final Assignment supervision: 7 students to date.

Professional Master courses (GFM3)

• Spatial Data Infrastructure Engineering 2007-2009 (course coordinator, lecturer)
• Case Study and programming 2007- (co-coordinator and lecturer)
• Final Assignment supervision:
• "Building a multi-modal transport network for Enschede" 2007
• "Detecting Pertussis clusters in the Netherlands" 2007.

MSc courses (GFM2)

• Programming Skills parts I and II (coordinator and lecturer)
• Advanced Topic: Time Series (lecturer)

Distance Education (DE) courses

• DE Python 2011 (coordinator, content developer)

Supervised/co-supervised MSc theses

• Rodrigo Sperb � "Dynamic shortest path modelling" 2010
• Nazila Yaghini � "GIS models for the dynamic routing problem" 2009
• J. P. Gatera � "Trajectory data management and directional queries" 2009
• Nannan He � "Suitable graphic representation for annotated movement data" 2009
• I. F. Santiago � "Multivariate geovisualisation of Archaeological events using the Space-time Cube" 2008
• B. D. Mullaw � "Moving objects in static maps, animation and the Space-time Cube" 2008
• A. Kherzi � "Visualising the effects of a dynamic flood model: experimenting with the Space-time Cube" 2007.

Course Development

• Diploma in GIS operation (GFM4) course on Programming, 2009
• Master of Science (GFM2) course on Programming Skills, 2008
• Professional Master (GFM3) course on SDI Engineering, 2007
• Diploma in GIS operation (GFM4) course on Spatial Databases, 2007.

Activities in Research

Otto is a part of the Spatio-Temporal Data Integration and Visualization (ST-DIV) research group within ITC. His research interests cover various aspects of both GISystems and GIScience. Key interests are:

• Temporal GIS, Time-Geography and the Space-Time Cube (STC)
• Geovisual Analytics
• Modelling, analysis and visualization of moving objects, specifically relating to accessibility and urban transportation.

Otto has a longstanding interest in the handling of dynamic, spatiotemporal information. He is particularly interested in issues surrounding the modelling, analysis and visualisation of human movement. His doctoral research applied key concepts from Time-Geography to the study of individual accessibility and aggregate patterns using customized GIS data models. Moving objects are a particularly topical subject, due to the increasing availability of spatially referenced movement data as captured by new technologies such as cell phone usage (LBS) or GPS. Geovisual Analytics is an emerging multidisciplinary field that combines various research areas (including data-mining and knowledge discovery, data management, geovisualization and human-computer interaction) to bear on the analysis of spatial and spatiotemporal datasets.

The interests above represent a research agenda with a range of application domains, including both social and environmental processes at a variety of scales and levels of complexity. Collectively, they are highly topical, as demonstrated by recent publications, and project-based funding documented below.

Activities in Project Services

1. MOVE - Knowledge Discovery from Moving Objects (2009-)
Budget: � 19 million (COST-Action IC0903)
Main role: Department of GeoInformation Processing is involved in 2 main groups: WG3: Analysis of Movement and Spatio-temporal Data Mining, and WG4: Visual Analytics for Movement and Cognitive Issues.
Project description: This project aims to build a network for collaboration that leads to the improvement of ICT methods for knowledge extraction from massive amounts of data about moving objects. Aims are to increase networking, developing better links between ICT researchers and domain experts, better formalisations of movement patterns, improve tools for research, and support emerging researchers.

2.VisMaster � Mastering the Information Age (2008-)
Budget: � 214,000
Main role: Member of WP 3.2 (Data Mining and Visual Analytics), contributor to book chapter.
Project description: This project is a part of a Seventh Framework programme (Theme 3 - Information and Communication Technologies) titled 'Visual Analytics � Mastering the Information Age'. The purpose of the project is to define a roadmap for European Geovisual Analytics research in the form of key research areas, methodologies and themes. The GIP department is involved in working packages relating to geovisualisation and data mining. http://www.vismaster.eu/
Outputs: Workshop at 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference, special issue in KDD Explorations journal, working group final report, eventual book chapter.

3. Reduced CO2 from Sustainable Household Travel (2005-2009)
Budget: NZ$ 2.7 million (NZ Foundation for Research Science and Technology)
Main role: GIS Analyst (subcontracted by OPUS International Consultants via Massey University)
Project description: This research aims to identify the causes of the observed growth in fuel consumption due to the reliance on private motor vehicles and to social and behavioural aspects particular to NZ culture. http://www.transportco2.org.nz/co2.htm
Output: Internal reports (2), conference paper.

4. Auckland Regional Public Health Service GIS Strategy (2005)
Budget: NZ$ 16,000 (Auckland Regional Public Health Service of the Auckland District Health Board)
Main role: External GIS Contractor
Project description: This report was commissioned by the ARPHS of the ADHB to investigate and document existing GIS capacity (systems, data, and human resources) within the service, and provide a needs assessment to aid in the development of a medium-term GIS strategy. http://www.arphs.co.nz/
Output: Internal report, 90 pages.

5. Alcogenic Environments (2004-2006)
Budget: NZ$ 600,000 (New Zealand Health Research Council)
Main role(s): Project Manager, GIS Analyst
Project description: This study examines the relationship between local environments (physical, socio- economic and social) and drinking, and alcohol-related harm among youth (aged 12-17).
Outputs: Reports (2), ISI journal publication.

6. Virtual Technologies and Potential Impacts on Lifestyle and Study Choices (2000-2001)
Budget: NZ$ 50,000 (University of Auckland Vice Chancellor�s Development Fund)
Main role(s): Research Fellow
Project description: The purpose of this project was to investigate the potential effects which web technologies and e-learning might have upon student activity patterns.
Output: This project has had three specific outcomes: a time-use survey, an assessment of current and potential student activity patterns, and commissioning of the development of a web-based survey to investigate student transportation and parking options at the University of Auckland through a spatially-enabled user interface.

7. Spatial Patterns of Student Demand and Uptake at the University of Auckland (1997-98)
Budget: NZ$ 21,000 (University of Auckland Student Affairs Registry)
Main role: Researcher
Project description: Analysis of location of University of Auckland students to assess both the demand for transportation, and the relative success of the University of Auckland in local recruitment of students.
Output: A substantive working data set used for University planning and advocacy.

8. Access to Primary Healthcare (1998)
Budget: NZ$ 3,500
Role: Sole fundee
Funding Source: NorthHealth
Project description: The general aim of this research was to gain some insight into past and present patterns of maternity ward usage for Greater Auckland and develop an improved methodology for Decision Support.
Output: An improved methodology to examine usage levels and accessibility to primary healthcare.

Publications

ISI Journal Articles

Köbben, B.J., de By, R.A., Foerster, T., Huisman, O., Lemmens, R.L.G. and Morales, J.M. (2010) Using the SDIlight approach in teaching a geoinformatics master : research article. In: Transactions in GIS, 14 (2010)s1 pp. 25-37. Full text | Full text

Huisman, O., Feliciano Santiago, I.T., Kraak, M.J. and Retsios, V. (2009) Developing a geovisual analytics environment for investigating archaeological events : extending the space time cube. In: Cartography and geographic information science, 36 (2009)3 pp. 225-236. Full text

Huckle, T., Huakau, J., Sweetsur, P., Huisman, O. and Casswell, S. (2008) Density of alcohol outlets and teenage drinking : living in an alcogenic environment is associated with higher consumption in a metropolitan setting. In: Addiction, 103(2008)10, pp. 1614-1621. Full text

Other Refereed Journal Articles

Biadgilgn, D.M., Blok, C.A. and Huisman, O. (2011) Assessing the cartographic visualization of moving objects. In: Momona Ethiopian Journal of Science, 3(2011)1, pp. 80-104. Full text | Full text

Book Chapters

Köbben, B.J., Huisman, O. and Lin, H. (2012) Combining VGI with viewsheds for photo tag suggestion. In: Advances in location - based services : 8th international symposium on location - based services, Vienna 21-23 November 2011 / editor G. Gartner, , F. Ortag. - Berlin : Springer, 2012. - 348 p. ; 24 cm. - (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography) pp. 181-190. Full text

Augustijn, P.W.M., Abdulkareem, S., Huisman, O. and Flacke, J. (2010) Simulating diffusion of pertussis in the Netherlands. In: Workshop on agent - based simulation of diffusion processes, 8-9 April 2010, Vienna, Austria. - Wien : Universität Wien, 2010. ISBN 978-3-200-01835-8. pp. 31-33. Full text

Augustijn, P.W.M., Abdulkareem, S., Huisman, O. and Flacke, J. (2010) TEST TEST Book section : Simulating diffusion of pertussis in the Netherlands. 2010. Full text

Kraak, M.J. and Huisman, O. (2009) Beyond exploratory visualization of space time paths. In: Geographic data mining and knowledge discovery. / ed. by. H.J. Miller and J. Han. Second edition. Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4200-7397-3 pp. 431-443. Full text

Forer, P., Huisman, O. and McDowall, C. (2007) Dynamic prisms and instant access : linking opportunities in space to decision making in time. In: Societies and cities in the age of instant access / ed. by H.J. Miller. Berlin : Springer, 2007. ISBN 978-1-4020-5426-6 (The Geojournal Library : 88) pp. 119-133. Full text

Forer, P. and Huisman, O. (2000) Space, time and sequencing : substitution at he physical - virtual interface. In: Information, place, and cyberspace : issues in accessibility / D.G. Janelle ; D.C. Hodge. Berlin : Springer, 2000. ISBN 3-540-67492-6 (Advances in spatial science). pp. 73-90. Full text

Conference Proceedings (full papers)

Zurita-Milla, R., Arifin, M.S. and Huisman, O. (2011) Locating - allocating schools using metalheuristics and GIS. In: Proceedings of the 11th international conference on GeoComputation, London, UK, 20-22 July 2011 : e-book / editor T. Cheng, , ... [et al.]. - London : University College London (UCL), 2011. pp. 353-356. Full text

Ivanova, I., Huisman, O., de By, R.A., Rutzinger, M., Bakker, W.H. and Feringa, W.F. (2010) Developing a distance education programming skills course fo geo - information sciences and earth observation students + powerpoint. In: ISPRS 2010 : ISPRS mid - term symposium commission VI : cross - border education for global geo - information : ITC, Enschede, the Netherlands, 2-4 June 2010. - [s.l.] : International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), 2010. pp. 62-67 + 39 slides. Full text | Full text

Huisman, O. and ... [et al.] (2007) The nature of prism : exploring data quality and vagueness in dynamic spatio - temporal constructs. In: Proceedings of the 5th International symposium on Spatial Data Quality SDQ 2007, Modelling qualities in space and time, ITC, Enschede, The Netherlands, 13-15 June, 2007. Enschede : ITC, 2007. 7 p. Full text

Huisman, O. and Forer, P. (2005) The complexities of everyday life : balancing practical and realistic approaches to modelling probable presence in space - time. In: Proceedings of the 17th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre (SIRC), 24-25 November, 2005. Dunedin, New Zealand. / ed. by P.A Whigham. Dunedin : The University of Otago, 2005. ISBN 1-877139-90-4. pp. 155-168. Full text

Huisman, O. and Forer, P. (1999) Student access and campus geographies : operationalising time - geography for the study of university student life. In: Proceedings of the 20nd New Zealand Geographical Society Conference, 5-8 July 1999, Palmerston North, New Zealand. Hamilton : New Zealand Geographical Society (NZGS). pp. 153-158. Full text

Huisman, O. and Forer, P. (1998) Computational agents and urban life spaces : a preliminary realisation of the time - geography of student lifestyles. In: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on GeoComputation, 17-19 September 1998, Bristol, U.K. 18 p. Full text | Full text

Scientific and Professional Publications

Puolamäki, K., Bertone, A., Therón, R., Huisman, O. and ... [et al.] (2010) Data mining. In: Mastering the information age : solving problems with visual analytics : e-book / D. Keim, ... [et al.]. - [s.l.] : Visual Analytics - Mastering the Information Age (VisMaster), 2010. - 168 p. ISBN 978-3-905673-77-7. pp. 39-56. Full text | Full text

Ivanova, I., Huisman, O., de By, R.A., Feringa, W.F., Bakker, W.H., Rutzinger, M. and Retsios, V. (2010) Programming skills : distance education. Enschede, ITC, 2010.

Huisman, O. (editor) and de By, R.A. (editor)  (2009) Principles of geographic information systems : an introductory textbook. Enschede, ITC, 2009. ITC Educational Textbook Series 1, ISBN: 978-90-6164-269-5. Full text

Huisman, O. (2005) Reduced CO2 from sustainable household travel : technical report, objective 3, milestone 2. : operational definition of accessibility. Auckland, Massey University, 2005. Full text | Full text

Presentations

Huisman, O., Kraak, M.J. and Retsios, V. (2011) Geovisual analytics and the space - time cube : abstract. In: 2011 AAG Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, 21-16 April 2011 : abstracts. 1 p. Full text | Full text

Verplanke, J.J., Miscione, G. and Huisman, O. (2011) Resilient societies : human sensor webs : challenges for monitoring : powerpoint. Presented at IGS - SENSE conference Resilient Societies : governing risk and vulnerability for water, energy and climate change, 19-21 October 2011, Enschede, the Netherlands. 38 slides. Full text

Huisman, O. (2010) The nature of human activities : interpreting moving objects in context : powerpoint. Presented at the Workshop on movement pattern research: Are you in the flow? The 13th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science: "Geospatial Thinking", 10-14 May, 2010 Guimarães, Portugal. 20 slides. Full text

Huisman, O., Feliciano Santiago, I.T., Retsios, V. and Kraak, M.J. (2008) Development of a geovisual analytics environment for investigating archaeological events based upon the space - time Cube : extended abstract. Presented at Geospatial Visual Analytics Workshop, GIScience 2008 Conference, 23-26 September 2008, Park City, Utah, USA. 3 p. Full text | Full text

Huisman, O. and Forer, P. (2008) Progress in the application of time - geographic concepts to urban micro - process : powerpoint. Presented at Geospatial Visual Analytics Workshop, GIScience 2008 Conference, 23-26 September 2008, Park City, Utah, USA. 29 slides. Full text

Huisman, O. (1999) Scaling in space and time : extending an individual - based, geometric model of accessibility. Presented at the 11th European colloquium on quantitative and theoretical geography, 3-7 September 1999, Durham, United Kingdom. 17 slides.