The document outlines the 8th International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2018), held in Lyon, France, featuring various sessions focusing on location-aware information access, spatial social behavior analytics, and interdisciplinary research perspectives. The schedule includes keynote presentations, discussions, and papers covering topics like location-based services and mobile application usage. It calls for feedback and ideas for future workshops and encourages ongoing engagement through provided contact information.

1. LocWeb 2018
8th International Workshop on Location and the Web
at
The Web Conference – WWW 2018
Lyon, France
45°47′08′′N 4°51′23′′E

3. Organizers
Dirk Ahlers
NTNU
Trondheim, Norway
Erik Wilde
CA Technologies
Switzerland
Rossano Schifanella
University of Turin
Italy
[Workshop on Location and
the Web (LocWeb)]
Jalal S. Alowibdi
University of Jeddah
Saudi Arabia
Muhammad Zubair Shafiq
University of Iowa
USA
[Workshop on Social
Computing (IWSC) – Spatial
Social Behavior Analytics on
the Web]

4. Programme Committee
• Andreas Henrich, Universität Bamberg,
Germany
• Arjen de Vries, Radboud University
• Bart Thomee, Google, USA
• Bruno Martins, University of Lisbon, Portugal
• Carsten Keßler, Hunter College, City
University of New York
• Chien-wen Shen, National Central University
Taiwan, Taiwan
• Claudia Hauff, Delft University, Netherlands
• Clodoveu Davis, Universidade Federal de
Minas Gerais, Brazil
• David Shamma, FXPAL
• Francisco López-Pellicer, Universidad
Zaragoza, Spain
• Leonidas Anthopoulos, TEI of Thessaly,
Greece
• Lisette Espín-Noboa, GESIS – Leibniz-
Institute for the Social Sciences
• Luca Maria Aiello, Bell Labs
• Muhammad Murtaza Khan, University of
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• Muhammad Usman Ilyas, University of
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• Rainer Simon, AIT Austrian Institute for
Technology
• Salem Alelyani, King Khalid University,
Saudi Arabia
• Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University, UK
• Torsten Suel, NYU Poly
• Yana Volkovich, Appnexus

5. LocWeb 2018
• Location-aware information
access
• Web-scale services and systems
• Spatial Social Behavior Analytics
on the Web, social computing
• Cross-cutting issue in Web
research
– Search, retrieval, analytics, mining,
extraction, mobility, apps, services,
systems
• Interdisciplinary perspective

6. Schedule9:10 – 10:20 Session 1
• Opening
• Keynote New Opportunities for Research in the “Lost World” of Location-based Services.
Tassos Noulas (New York University)
11:00 – 12:20 Session 2
• 11:00 Venice through the Lens of Instagram – A Visual Narrative of Tourism in Venice
Luca Rossi, Eric Boscaro, Andrea Torsello
• 11:30 A location-based virtual reality application for mountain peak detection
Antonio La Salandra, Piero Fraternali, Darian Frajberg
• 12:00 WeGovNow: a map based platform to engage the local civic society
Guido Boella, Louise Francis, Elena Grassi, Axel Kistner, Andreas Nitsche, Alexey Noskov, Luigi
Sanasi, Adriano Savoca, Claudio Schifanella, Ioannis Tsampoulatidis
13:40 – 15:00 Session 3
• 13:40 The WWW (and an H) of Mobile Application Usage in the City – The What, Where,
When, and How
Eduardo Graells-Garrido, Diego Caro, Omar Miranda, Rossano Schifanella, Oscar F. Peredo
• 14:10 Travel Itinerary Recommendations with Must-see Points-of-Interest
Kendall Taylor, Kwan Hui Lim, Jeffrey Chan
• 14:40 Discussion Session, Open Questions, Future Work
• 15:00 Closing

7. Contact
• http://dhere.de/locweb2018/
• @locweb
• #locweb2018
• #www2018
• #TheWebConf

8. Discussion

9. Lyon Location Details
• Location (use) is highly local
• Details can be surprising
• Understand the city?
• What did you discover?
• [How well did you find this
room?]
• [traboules in Vieux Lyon]
• [spatial orientation around the
hills]
• [public transportation? not on
maps.google, but on bing]

10. Lyon Location Details
• Location (use) is highly local
• Details can be surprising
• Understand the city?
• What did you discover?
• [How well did you find this
room?]
• [traboules in Vieux Lyon]
• [spatial orientation around the
hills]
• [public transportation? not on
maps.google]

11. Lyon Location Details
• Location (use) is highly local
• Details can be surprising
• Understand the city?
• What did you discover?
• [How well did you find this
room?]
• [traboules in Vieux Lyon]
• [spatial orientation around the
hills]
• [public transportation? not on
google maps, but on bing]
[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traboule#/media/File:Traboule_courtyard_A_Ly
on.jpg User:Chris_73]

12. Open Issues
• What is exciting?
• What is difficult?
• What is challenging?
• What should we work on?

13. Thoughts for LocWeb201*
• What did you expect, what new things did
you learn?
• Things you liked (not?) at LocWeb?
• Room for improvement?
• Particular ideas for next edition?

14. Follow-up
• http://dhere.de/locweb2018/
– Linking papers from ACM DL and WWW
• Make slides available, please!
– And send link
• @locweb
• Work on open issues

15. Keep in touch!
LocWeb 2018
The Web Conference – WWW 2018
Lyon, France
45°47′08′′N 4°51′23′′E
dhere.de/locweb2018/
@locweb