Presentations

Keynote Addresses and Invited Lectures

• 2010. “Geo-Narrative: Analyzing Qualitative Data with GIS In Mixed-Method Research.” Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, November 5.

• 2010. J. Douglas Eyre Distinguished Lecture, “Geographic Context in Health Research: A New Conceptualization.” Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October 1.

• 2010. “Geo-Narrative: Analyzing Qualitative Data With GIS In Mixed-Method for Transport and Health Research.” School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, August 6.

• 2010. Keynote Address. International conference on “Qualitative GIS: Emerging Issues and Possible Futures.” Cardiff University, UK, August 2-4.

• 2010. “GIS-based Analysis for Communication Studies.” School of Communication, Ohio State University, May 28.

• 2010. Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture. “Analysis of Human Behavior in Space-Time using GIS.” Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 30.

• 2009. “Geovisualization and Geocomputation for the Analysis of Human Activities: A Time-Geographic Perspective.” Faculty of Construction and Land Use, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, December 13.

• 2009. “Geovisualization and Geocomputation for the Analysis of Human Activities: A Time-Geographic Perspective.” Department of Geography, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, December 3.

• 2009. “Geovisualization and Geocomputation for the Analysis of Human Activities: A Time-Geographic Perspective.” Department of Geography, Baptist University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, November 26.

• 2009. Distinguished Transport Lecture. “What about Time in Transportation Research.” Institute of Transport Studies, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, November 11.

• 2009. “Geovisualization and Geocomputation for the Analysis of Human Activities: A Time-Geographic Perspective.” Department of Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, November 4.

• 2009. “Geovisualization and Geocomputation for the Analysis of Human Activities: A Time-Geographic Perspective.” Department of Geography, Beijing University, Beijing, China, November 2.

• 2009. Keynote Address. “Space, Time and Behavior: New Conceptualization and Measurements.” The Dynamics of Space-Time Use: Measurement, Patterns, and Consequences Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, October 2-3, 2009.

• 2009. Initiative in Population Research (IPR) Geographical Analysis Core Inaugural Lecture. “Geographical Analysis Revisited: Implications for Population and Health Research.” Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, September , 2009.

• 2009. Keynote Address. “Geocomputation and Geovisualization for Health Research.” Canadian Institutes of Health Research Summer Institute, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, July 9-12.

• 2009. “Geo-Narrative and 3D GIS-Based Time-Geographic Methods.” Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France, May 25.

• 2009. Belle van Zuylen Chair Inaugural Lecture. “Geo-Narrative: Analyzing Qualitative Data with GIS in Mixed-Method Research.” Utrecht University, the Netherlands, May 13.

• 2009. “Analysis of Life Paths and Time-Space Behavior in the Urban Context: Geovisualization and Geocomputational Approaches.” National Centre for Geocomputation, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, May 7.

• 2009. “Geographic Context in Studying Behavior: New Conceptualization and Measurements.” Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, April 23.

• 2009. “Geovisualization and Geocomputation for the Analysis of Human Activities in Space-Time.” Department of Geography, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, April 21.

• 2009. “Spatial visualization/geovisualization.” Invited lecture, 3G’s (GEI, GPS, and GIS) Workshop, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California, February 20-22.

• 2008. “Reconceptualizing Sociogeographic Context in Health Research.” Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, November 20-21 (co-sponsored by the Division of International Health and the UCSD Biomedical Library).

• 2008. “Geovisualization and Geocomputation for the Analysis of Human Activities in Space-Time.” Division of Psychology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, November 3.

• 2008. Presidential Session Lecture. “Geo-Narrative: Analyzing and Interpreting Oral Histories with 3D GIS.” Lecture delivered in the Presidential Session entitled “Time Geography: The Work of Mei-Po Kwan,” 33rd Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association (SSHA), Miami, Florida, October 23-26.

• 2008. Keynote Address. “Understanding the Rhythms of Everyday Life in Space-time through Geo-narrative and Geovisualization.” Timespace and Lifecourse ESRC Seminar Series: Tracking the Rhythms of Everyday Life, London, August 26 (sponsored by the U.K. Economic and Social Research Council).

• 2008. Keynote Address. “Geo-Narrative: Extending Geographic Information Systems for Narrative Analysis in Qualitative Research.” Technology in Qualitative Research Workshop, Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry: Ethics, Evidence and Social Justice, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 14, 2008.

• 2008. Public Lecture. “Information and Communication Technologies, Social Networks, and Urban Travel: New Conceptualizations.” St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota, May 2.

• 2008. Louis Leipold Distinguished Geography Lecture.“Geovisualization and Geocomputation for the Analysis of Human Activities in Space-Time.” Department of Geography, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota, May 1.

• 2008. “Geovisualization and Geocomputation for the Analysis of Human Activities in Space-Time.” Department of Geography, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. March 4.

• 2008. Elizabeth Chan Geography Academic Lecture. “Information and Communication Technologies, Social Networks, and Urban Travel: New Conceptualizations.” Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, February 21.

• 2008. Mel Webber Lecture. “Mobile Communications, Social Networks, and Urban Travel: New Topologies of Spatial Interaction.” University of California Transportation Center, Santa Barbara, California, February 1.

• 2008. “Geovisualization and Geocomputation for the Analysis of Human Activities in Space-Time.” Department of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, January 25.

• 2007. Keynote Address. “GIS and Spatial Social Science.” Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts – Amherst, Massachusetts (Five College GIS Day - Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst), November 2.

• 2007. “Analysis of Human Activities in Space and Time.” Department of Geography, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, September 14.

• 2007. “Visual Analysis of Human Activities.” Advances in Spatial Information Science Research Symposium, Spatial Information Science Research Interest Group, University of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, May 24-25.

• 2007. “Analysis of Individual Accessibility in Space-Time: Gender Differences and Geographical Context.” John Glenn School of Public Affairs, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, May 4.

• 2007. “Individuals Accessibility in Space-Time: Geocomputation and Geovisualization Approaches.” Social Science In Place (SSIP) Research Group and Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, February 20.

• 2007. “Individual Accessibility in Space-Time: Geocomputation and Geovisualization Approaches.” National Cancer Institute, Washington, D.C., January 24.

• 2007. Plenary Lecture. “Geovisualization and Geocomputation for the Analysis of Human Activities in Space-Time.” Huitièmes Rencontres de Théo Quant, Besançon, France, January 10-12.

• 2006. Keynote Address. “GIS and Spatial Social Science.” Annual Meeting of the East Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers (ELDAAG), Toledo, Ohio, October 20-21.

• 2006. Keynote Address. “Visual Analysis of Human Activities.” UCGIS Workshop on Computation and Visualization for the understanding of Dynamics in Geographic Domains, Washington, D.C., October 16-18.

• 2006. "ICT, Space-Time Constraints, and Sustainability." Department of Urban Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, August 22.

• 2006. Keynote Address. “Analysis of Life Paths and Time-Space Behaviour in the Urban Context: Geovisualization and Geocomputational Approaches.” International Conference on “Urban Conditions and Life Chances”, Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Developing Studies, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 6-8.

• 2006. “Doing qualitative research using GIS: An oxymoronic endeavor?” Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Developing Studies, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 4.

• 2006. “Geocomputation for the Analysis of Access in Space and Time.” Center for Health Care Research and Policy, Case Western Reserve University and MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, May 12.

• 2006. Fleming Lecture in Transportation Geography. “Mobile Communications, Social Networks and Urban Travel: New Topologies of Spatial Interaction”. Invited lecture at the 102th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March 7-11.

• 2006. “Politics and Practice of Geospatial Technologies.” Department of Geography, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, February 17.

• 2006. “3D Geovisualization and Geocomputation for the Analysis of Human Activities in Space-time.” School of Medicine and Department of Geography, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis, February 3.

• 2006. “Individual Accessibility in Space-Time: Gender and Geographical Context.” Program in Transportation and Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Toronto, Canada, January 13.

• 2005. “Accessibility in Space-Time: A 3D GIS Approach.” Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, December 5.

• 2005. “3D Geovisualization and Geocomputation for the Analysis of Human Activities in Space-time.” Symposium on “Sustaining the Future and Understanding the Past: GIS Technology.” Center for Statistics and Geospatial Data, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, October 14.

• 2005. “New Information Technologies, Global Change, and Their Impacts on Human Behavior and Urban Economy.” Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, NY, March 5.

• 2005. “Geospatial Technologies and Feminist Geography.” Department of Geography, Syracuse University, NY, March 4.

• 2005. “GIS and Spatial Equity.” Syracuse Hunger Project, Syracuse University, NY, March 4.

• 2005. “3D Geovisualization and Geocomputation for the Analysis of Human Activities in Space-time.” Department of Geography, San Diego State University, CA, March 1.

• 2005. “Accessibility in Space-Time: A 3D GIS Approach.” Department of Geography, Arizona State University, Arizona, February 21.

• 2005. “Feminist Geography and Geospatial Technologies.” Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona, Arizona, February 18.

• 2004. “Accessibility in Space-Time: A 3D GIS Approach.” Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London, UK, November 25.

• 2004. Rockefeller Lecture. “Feminist Geography and Geospatial Technologies: A New Beginning?” Department of Geography, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 10.

• 2004. Feminism and Social Theory in Geography Lecture. “Feminist Geography and Geospatial Technologies: A New Beginning?” Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, October 15.

• 2004. IGERT Distinguished Lecture. “Internet Use, Space-Time Constraint and Human Activity Patterns.” Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, California, May 21.

• 2004. “The Urban Geography of Hate and Fear After 9/11: A Study on the Impact of 9/11 on the Muslim Population in Columbus, Ohio.” Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, May 7.

• 2004. “3D Geovisualization and Geocomputation for the Analysis of Human Activities in Space-time.” Department of Geography, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, April 9.

• 2004. “Individual Accessibility in Space-Time: Gender and Geographical Context.” School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, February 27.

• 2004. Geographic Information Systems and Technologies Lecture. “3D Geovisualization and Geocomputation for the Analysis of Human Activities in Space-time.” Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), California, February 23.

• 2004. “Feminist Visualizations: Re-envisioning GIS as a Method in Feminist Geographic Research.” Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, February 20.

• 2003. “Feminist Visualizations: Re-envisioning GIS as a Method in Feminist Geographic Research.” Department of Geography, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, December 5.

• 2003. “Gender Division of Household Labor and Activity-Travel Patterns: A GIS Approach”. Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, November 20.

• 2003. Inaugural James and Catherine Ralston Lecture. “New Information Technologies: Human Behavior in Space-Time and the Urban Economy.” Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, November 13.

• 2003. “Feminist Visualizations: Re-envisioning GIS as a Method in Feminist Geographic Research.” Department of Geography and Sociology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, November 3.

• 2003. “A GIS-based Approach to the Study of Space-time Accessibility.” Urban and Regional Research Centre Utrecht and Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, October 28.

• 2003. “Is GIS for Women: A Critical Reflection.” Department of Geography, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, September 26.

• 2003. "New Information Technologies, Human Behavior in Space-Time and Urban Travel." Centre for Transport Research and Innovation for People, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland, May 13.

• 2003. "Is GIS for Women: A Critical Reflection." National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA) and Department of Geography, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland, May 12.

• 2003. "Is GIS for Women? A Critical Reflection." Department of Geography, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February 21.

• 2003. "Gender and Accessibility in Space-Time: A GIS Approach." Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington, Seattle, January 31.

• 2003. "Feminist Visualizations: Re-envisioning GIS as a Method in Feminist Geographic Research." Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, January 30.

• 2002. "Is GIS for Women: A Critical Reflection." Department of Geography, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, October 25.

• 2002. "A GIS-based Approach to the Study of Space-time Accessibility." Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, April 26.

• 2002. "Collection and Analysis of GPS Data for Understanding Human Activity Patterns." Interdisciplinary Research Group on Mobility (GRIMES), Université Laval, Sainte-Foy, Quebéc, Canada, February 25.

• 2001. "A Study of Gender and Accessibility in Space-Time Using GIS." Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University, Columbus, October 19.

• 2001. "Gender and Accessibility in Space-Time: A Time-Geographic Perspective." Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, March 23.

• 2000. "Other GIS in Other Worlds: Can GIS be a Method for Critical Geographic Research?" Department of Geography, Ohio State University, Columbus, May 25.

• 1996. "GIS and Re-mapping Geography." The Geography Club, Department of Geography, Ohio State University, Columbus, May 9.

• 1994 "Modeling Travel Behavior Using GIS." Department of Geography, Kent State University, Akron, Ohio, December 9.

Invited Presentations in Specialist Workshops or Professional Meetings [Top]

• 2010. “Using GIS in research on neighborhood effects, sociogeographic context, and environmental exposure.” IPR GIS Workshop, Initiative in Population Research, Ohio State University, June 10.

• 2010. “Linking immigrant community exposure to adolescent substance use and sexual behavior: Moving beyond neighborhood of residence.” Invited presentation in an organized session entitled “Place & Substance Use: Linking Environments to Health.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Washington, D.C., April 14-18. (Christopher Browning, Lauren J. Krivo, Aubrey Jackson, Heather Washington, Ruth Peterson, and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2010. Invited panelist in an organized session on “Meet the Editors of the Annals of the AAG.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Washington, D.C., April 14-18.

• 2010. Invited panelist in an organized tribute session on “A Celebration of Reg Golledge's Life and Work.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Washington, D.C., April 14-18.

• 2010. “A geospatial framework for analyzing the interaction of childhood obesity and air pollution on cardiovascular health.” GeoHealth Working Group Session, Ohio State University, March 9. (Tim Buckley and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2010. “Geocomputation and 3D geovisualization as methods in population and health research.” GIS Methodology Seminar, Initiative in Population Research, Ohio State University, January 19.

• 2009. “Whom to hang out with and why: the influence of social ties on leisure and social activity participation and travel of various ethnic groups in the Netherlands.” Invited presentation at the Workshop on Social Networks and Travel (sponsored by NSF), Niagara on the Lake, August 25-27, 2009. (Dick Ettema and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2009. Invited panelist in an organized session on “Meet the Editors of the Annals and the Professional Geographer.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27.

• 2009. Invited panelist in a session on “GPS, IRB and Ethics” at the “3G’s (GEI, GPS, and GIS) Workshop,” University of California, San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California, February 20-22.

• 2008. Invited presentation in the Health Geomatics Workshop 2008 (sponsored by GeoConnection Canada), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, September 22-23.

• 2008. Invited panelist, Expert Panel on Geospatial Research, Surveillance and Capacity Building In Support of CDC’s Healthy Communities Goal (sponsored by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry), Atlanta, Georgia, May 6-7.

• 2008. Invited panelist in an organized session on “Straddling the Fence II: Theory, Practice, and History in Critical GIS” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Boston, MA, April 15-19.

• 2008. Invited panelist in an organized session on “Geography of drug addiction: Emerging methodologies” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Boston, MA, April 15-19.

• 2008. Invited panelist in an organized session on “Publishing in the Annals and the PG” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Boston, MA, April 15-19.

• 2008. Invited panelist in an organized session on “Our AAG journals: Results of the Spring 2008 survey” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Boston, MA, April 15-19.

• 2008. “An examination of the timing and duration of daily Internet activities using hazard-based duration models.” Invited presentation at the Third International Specialist Meeting on ICT, Everyday Life and Urban Change, Bristol, U.K., March 16-19. (Fang Ren, Mei-Po Kwan, and Tim Schwanen)

• 2008. Invited panelist in the Responsible Conduct of Research Workshop (sponsored by the Graduate School and the Office of Research), Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, January 23.

• 2007. Invited panelist in an organized session on “GIScience and Disaster Management: Research prospects and challenges” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), San Francisco, April 17-21.

• 2007. Invited panelist in an organized session on “GIScience and Disaster Management: Research prospects and challenges” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), San Francisco, April 17-21.

• 2007. Invited panelist in an organized session on “Publishing in the Annals and the PG” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), San Francisco, April 17-21.

• 2007. Invited panelist in an organized session on “People of Color Negotiate the Academy (Part II): women of color geographers and the crisis of underrepresentation” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), San Francisco, April 17-21.

• 2006. “Does access to shopping opportunities Affect E-shopping? A study in Columbus (Ohio, U.S.A.)” Invited presentation at “ICT: Mobilizing persons, places and spaces”, the Second International Specialist Meting on ICT, Everyday Life and Urban Change, Bergen, the Netherlands, November 9-12. (Fang Ren and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2006. “Visual analytics and geo-attribute spaces.” UCGIS Workshop on Computation and Visualization for the understanding of Dynamics in Geographic Domains, Washington, D.C., October 16-18. (Ola Ahlqvist and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2006. Invited panelist in an organized session on “SPLINT SPACE NITLE and ARCNRSISS: A Panel on Integrating Spatial Analysis in University Teaching and Research” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Chicago, March 7-11.

• 2006. Invited panelist in an organized session on “Transport Geography: Assessing the Current State of the Subdiscipline” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Chicago, March 7-11.

• 2006. Invited panelist in an organized session on “The Papyrus Calls: A Panel on Academic Publishing” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Chicago, March 7-11.

• 2006. “Internet Use, Space-Time Constraint and Accessibility in the Information Age.” Invited presentation in an organized panel session on “Cybermobility and the Evolution of Personal Travel” at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 22-26.

• 2005. “Time-Geographic Methods For Analyzing GPS Data.” Invited presentation in a specialist meeting on “GPS Tracking and Time-Geography Applications for Activity Modeling and Microsimulation.” (sponsored by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration), Santa Barbara, California, October 10-11.

• 2005. “Politics and Practice in GIS After Ground Truth.” Invited presentation in an organized session on “Spaces of Technology/Technological Spaces” at the 2005 Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) Conference, London, August 31- September 2.

• 2005 “Hybridity as Research Practice in Geography.” Invited presentation in an organized session on “Modelling Geography: Histories, Prospects, and Practices” at the 2005 Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) Conference, London, August 31- September 2.

• 2005 Invited participant, Colloquy on the Coming Transformation of Travel (convened and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Federal Highway Administration Office of Planning and New York State Metropolitan Planning Organizations), Rensselaerville, NY, June 1-3.

• 2005. “Politics and Practice in GIS After Ground Truth.” Invited presentation in a plenary session titled “Ground Truth and Critical GIS: A research Agenda for the Future II” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Denver, April 5-9.

• 2005. “Feminist Geography and Geospatial Technologies: A New Beginning?” Invited presentation in a panel session titled “Feminism and Social Theory in Geography I at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Denver, April 5-9.

• 2004. “The Impact of E-Shopping on Activity-Travel Patterns.” Invited presentation at the international conference “ICT: Mobilizing Persons, Places and Spaces - An International Specialist Meeting On ICT, Everyday Life and Urban Change.” Doorn, the Netherlands, November 4-7, 2004. (Fang Ren and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2004. "Emergency Response after 9/11: The Potential of Real-time 3D GIS for Quick Emergency Response in Micro-spatial Environments." Invited presentation at the 9th International Seminar in GIS. Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS), Seoul, South Korea, September 8–9.

• 2004. “Construction of Place Vs. Construction of Knowledge.” Invited presentation at the conference on “History and Geography: Assessing the Role of Geographical Information in Historical Scholarship” (sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities), Chicago, March 25-27. (Mei-Po Kwan and Stuart Aitken)

• 2004. "Beyond Difference: From Canonical Geography to Hybrid Geographies." Invited presentation in the Presidential Plenary Session on “Geography in the Twenty-First Century: Where Do We Go From Here?” 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Philadelphia, March 15-19.

• 2003. "Emergency Response and Population at Risk.” Invited presentation at the Homeland Security Workshop (funded by the University Consortium of Geographic Information Science (UCGIS); organized by the University of Georgia), University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, November 6-7.

• 2003. "Individual Accessibility in Space-Time: A GIS Approach." International Transportation Seminar on “Methodological Advances in Accessibility Analysis.” The Netherlands Graduate School of Housing and Urban Research (NETHUR) and Urban and Regional Research Centre Utrecht and Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, October 30.

• 2003. “Internet Use, Space-Time Constraints and Human Activity Patterns: A Time-Geographic Perspective.” Invited presentation in a specialist workshop “The Domestic Impact of Information and Communication Technology” (sponsored by NSF), Estes Park, Colorado, June 5-9.

• 2003. "Internet Use, Space-Time Constraints and Human Activity Patterns: A Time-Geographic Perspective." Second Specialist Workshop of STELLA (Sustainable Transport in Europe and Links and Liaisons with America), Focus Group 2 (ICT, Innovation and the Transport System), Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, May 8-10. (Mei-Po Kwan and Martin Dijst)

• 2003. Invited panelist in a panel session, “GIS and Society: Past, Present and Future.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), New Orleans, March 4-8, 2003.

• 2003. "Accessibility and Quality of Life." Second Specialist Workshop of STELLA (Sustainable Transport in Europe and Links and Liaisons with America), Focus Group 3 (Society, Behavior, and Private/Public Transport), Washington, D.C., January 13-14. (Martin Dijst and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2003. "New Information Technologies: Human Behavior in Space-Time and the Urban Economy." Special session entitled “International Roundtable, Part 2: STELLA - Transatlantic Research on Sustainable Transportation” at the Transportation Research Board 82nd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 12-16.

• 2002. “Spatial Inequality, GIS and Spatial Analysis.” American Sociological Association / National Science Foundation (ASA/NSF) Spatial Inequality Workshop, Columbus, Ohio, September 21-22.

• 2002. "GIS-based Intelligent Emergency Response (GIER): The Potential of Real-Time 3D GIS for Quick Emergency Response in Micro-Spatial Environments." National Science Foundation / Association of American Geographers (NSF / AAG) specialist workshop on The Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism: A Research Agenda for the Discipline. Washington D.C., January 24-27. (Mei-Po Kwan and Jiyeong Lee)

• 2002. "New Information Technologies, Human Behavior in Space-Time and the Urban Economy." Specialist workshop on ICT, Innovation and the Transport System. Sponsored by STELLA (Sustainable Transport in Europe and Links and Liaisons with America) and STAR (Sustainable Transportation Analysis and Research), and NSF, Washington, D.C., January 15-17.

• 2001. "Analysis of LBS-derived Data Using GIS-based 3D Geovisualization." Specialist Meeting on Location-Based Services, Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS), University of California, Santa Barbara, December 14-15, 2001. [Position Paper]

• 1998. "Analysis of Human Spatial Behavior Within GIS: Recent Developments and Future Prospect." NCGIA Workshop on the Status and Trends in Spatial Analysis, University of California, Santa Barbara, December 10-12.

• 1998. "Conceptualizing and Measuring Individual Access to Information Resources on the Internet." NCGIA Specialist Meeting on Conceptualizing and Measuring Accessibility in the Information Age, Pacific Grove, California, November 20-22.

Presentations at Professional Meetings [Top]

• 2010. “The association between tobacco marketing strategies, activity-travel behavior, sociogeographic context and smokeless tobacco usage in the Appalachian region of Ohio.” Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers East Lakes Regional Meeting, Grand Rapids, MI, October 22-23. (Loren Kenda, Mei-Po Kwan, Mary Ellen Wewers, Amy Ferketich, and Liz Klein)

• 2010. "Investigating the temporal dynamics of Internet activities using survival analysis." Paper presented at the 32nd International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR) Conference 2010, Paris, France, July 7-10. (Fang Ren, Mei-Po Kwan and Tim Schwanen) (peer reviewed)

• 2010. “Space-time analysis of adolescent health-risk behaviors.” Paper presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, May 1-4, 2010, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (Sarah E Wiehe, Mei Po Kwan, Jeffrey S Wilson, Shawn C Hoch, B'Wana L Brooks and J Dennis Fortenberry) (peer reviewed)

• 2010. “The spatial mismatch and skills mismatch hypotheses: A study of the Columbus Metropolitan Area using spatial interpolation methods.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Washington, D.C., April 14-18. (Loren Kenda and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2010. “Time-space modeling of traffic-related air pollution in Ohio” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Washington, D.C., April 14-18. (Jun Li, Mei-Po Kwan and Desheng Liu)

• 2010. “Whom to hang out with and why: the influence of social ties on social and recreational activity participation and travel of various ethnic groups in the Netherlands.” Paper presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, January 10-14, Washington, D.C. (Dick Ettema and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2009. “Gendered rigidity of space-time constraints and human activity patterns: An activity-based approach.” Paper presented at the 14th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, Hong Kong, December 10-12. (Mei-Po Kwan, Tim Schwanen and Fang Ren)

• 2009. “Geographic context in health research: A new conceptualization.” Paper presented at the 13th International Symposium in Medical Geography, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, July 12-17. (Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2009. “A geographer’s take on healthcare accessibility: The role for critical geographic information systems (GIS) and mixed methods in healthcare accessibility.” Paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, June 4-7. (Tim Hawthorne and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2009. “Activity-space measures for studying spatial crime and social isolation.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27. (Mei-Po Kwan, Timothy Hawthorne, Catherine Calder, William Darneider, Aubrey Jackson, and Lauren J. Krivo).

• 2009. “Adolescent activity space and risk behavior: The joint effects of neighborhood and school contexts." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27. (Christopher R. Browning, Heather Washington, Lori Burrington, Catherine Calder, William Darnieder, Lauren J. Krivo, Mei-Po Kwan, and Ruth D. Peterson).

• 2009. “Dynamic individual and neighborhood activity patterns: Implications for problem behaviors among distinct groups.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27. (Ruth D. Peterson, Aubrey Jackson, Lauren J. Krivo, Christopher R. Browning, Catherine Calder, and Mei-Po Kwan).

• 2009. “The role for critical GIS and mixed methods research in studies of healthcare accessibility.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27. (Tim Hawthorne and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2009. “The Internet, mobility, and everyday life.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27. (Fang Ren and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2009. “Visualizing a large population in the space time aquarium.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27. (Johnathan Rush and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2008. “Accessibility, e-shopping, and activity-travel patterns”. Paper presented at the 13th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, Hong Kong, December 13-15. (Mei-Po Kwan and Fang Ren).

• 2008. “A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Measuring Activity-Travel Patterns.” Paper presented at the GIScience 2008 Conference (Fifth International Conference on Geographic Information Science), Park City, Utah, September 23-26. (Guoxiang Ding and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2008. “Reconceptualizing sociogeographic context for the study of drug use, abuse, and addiction.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Boston, MA, April 15-19. (Mei-Po Kwan, Ruth Peterson, Christopher Browning, Lori Burrington, Catherine Calder, and Lauren Krivo)

• 2008. “The Internet, mobility, and everyday life.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Boston, MA, April 15-19. (Fang Ren and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2008. “Seeing through the smoke: Exploring smoke free Ohio with public participation GIS.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Boston, MA, April 15-19. (Timothy L. Hawthorne and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2008. “Using LiDAR in detecting obstructions in transportation networks.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Boston, MA, April 15-19. (Dan Ransberger and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2007. “Public participation GIS for the general public?” Paper presented at GeoComputation 2007, Maynooth, Ireland, September 3-5, 2007. (Ningchuan Xiao, Ola Ahlqvist and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2007. “Affecting technological spaces in geography: Toward a politics of emotion.” Paper presented in an organized session on “Emotion and Politics (1): The Importance of Place” at the 2007 Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) Conference, London, August 29-31.

• 2007. “Activity-based qualitative modeling using spatial choice data.” Paper presented at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), San Francisco, April 17-21, 2007. (Guoxiang Ding and M-P. Kwan)

• 2007. “Measuring accessibility to smoking cessation programs in Appalachian Ohio: Considering individual perceptions to care as measures of revealed accessibility.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), San Francisco, April 17-21, 2007. (Timothy Hawthorne, Mei-Po Kwan, Mary Ellen Wewers, Pam Salsberry, Amy Ferketich, and Electra Paskett)

• 2007. “Patterns of local segregation: Do they matter for crime?” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New York, March 29-31. (Lauren J. Krivo, Reginald A. Bryon, Catherine A. Calder, and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2007. “Point-Based Accessibility and Individual-Based Accessibility.” Paper presented at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), Washington, D.C., January 21-25, 2007. (Cynthia Chen and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2006. “Conceptualizing socially sustainable urban transport.” Paper presented at the 11th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, December 9-11, 2006. (E. Eric Boschmann and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2006. “Neighborhood disadvantage and the concentration of criminogenic physical ecologies.” Paper presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology (ASC), Los Angeles, California, November 1-4, 2006. (Christopher Browning, Catherine Calder, Lauren Krivo, Mei-Po Kwan, and Ruth Peterson)

• 2006. “A closer look at the interrelations among ICT, travel, and space-time constraints.” Paper presented at the 11th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research, Kyoto, Japan, August 16-20, 2006. (Tim Schwanen and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2006. “Exploring Internet activities using 3D geovisualization technique.” Paper presented at the UCGIS Summer Assembly, Vancouver, Washington. June 28- July 1. (Fang Ren and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2006. “Women’s Attitudes Towards E-shopping and its Impact on their Shopping Behavior: A Case Study of Columbus, Ohio.” Paper presented at the 102th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Chicago, March 7-11, 2006. (Suzanna Klaf and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2006. “Geovisualization of Hybrid Activity-Travel Patterns.” Paper presented at the 102th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Chicago, March 7-11, 2006. (Fang Ren and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2006. “Identifying Participant-Defined Recreational Trail Locations Using GIS and Q Methodology in Delaware County, Ohio: A Case Study of Qualitative Data Integration in GIS.” Paper presented at the 102th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Chicago, March 7-11, 2006. (Timothy Hawthorne, John Krygier, and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2005. “Homeland Insecurity: American Muslims and Arab-Americans in the Post-9/11 Era.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Denver, April 5-9, 2005. (Mei-Po Kwan and Eric Boschmann)

• 2005. “The Impact of E-shopping on Individual Temporal Constraints and Out-of-home Activities.” Paper presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington DC, January 9-13, 2005. (Fang Ren and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2004. “3D-VQGIS: 3D Visualization and Qualitative Analysis of GeoSpatial Data.” Paper presented at the GIScience 2004 Conference, College Park, Maryland, October 20-23. (Guoxiang Ding and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2004. “Feminist Geography and Geospatial Technologies: A New Beginning?” Paper presented at the 30th Congress of the International Geographical Union (IGU), Glasgow, U.K., August 15-20.

• 2004. “Internet Use, Space-Time Constraints and Human Activity Patterns.” Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Philadelphia, March 14-19.

• 2004. “The Impact of the Internet on Women’s Daily Activities.” Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Philadelphia, March 14-19. (Fang Ren and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2004. “Whither critical GIScience?” Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Philadelphia, March 14-19. (Nadine Schuurman and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2004. “3D-VQGIS: 3D Visualization and Qualitative Analysis of GeoSpatial Data.” Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Philadelphia, March 14-19. (Guoxiang Ding and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2004. “The Accuracy of Space-Time Data.” Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Philadelphia, March 14-19. (Sunhee Sang and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2004. “Using Qualitative Methods and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in the Study of Women’s Activity-travel Behavior.” Paper presented at the Transportation Research Board 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 11-15.

• 2003. “A GIS-Based Travel Simulator under ITS: Activity Scheduling in the Presence of Real-Time Information.” Paper presented at the 50th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 20-22. (Irene Casas and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2003. “Gender, Race and Homeland Security: Negotiating Muslim Identities in the U.S. After 9/11.” Paper presented at the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, September 3-5.

• 2003. “Geovisualisation of Activity-Travel Patterns Using 3D Geographical Information Systems.” Paper presented at the 10th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research, Lucerne, Switzerland, August 10-14.

• 2003. “Netting Action and Activity Space/Time: Are Our Methods Keeping Pace with Evolving Behaviour Patterns?” Paper presented at the 10th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research, Lucerne, Switzerland, August 10-14. (Talia McCray, Martin Lee-Gosslin, Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2003. "Women, New Information Technologies and the Geographies of Everyday Life." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), New Orleans, March 4-8. (Mei-Po Kwan and Pamela Moss)

• 2003. "Reading Women and Space: ‘Real’ Bodies, ‘Real’ Technologies." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), New Orleans, March 4-8. (Pamela Moss and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2003. "Exploring Gender Differences in Individual Space-time Accessibility Using GIS." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), New Orleans, March 4-8. (Hyun-Mi Kim and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2002. "Using GIS for Accessibility Studies in Transportation." Paper presented at the 56th Annual Ohio Transportation Engineering Conference, Columbus, Ohio, October 22-23. (Morton O’Kelly and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2002. "Privacy Protection and Accuracy of Spatial Information: How Effective are Geographical Masks?" Paper presented at the GIScience 2002 Conference, Boulder, Colorado, September 25-28. (Mei-Po Kwan and Ben C. Schmitz)

• 2002. "Whose Security? Muslim Women in the U.S. after 9/11." Paper presented at the International Geographical Union (IGU) Gender and Geography Workshop, Placing Gender/Making Policy, Toronto, Canada, May 31-June 3.

• 2002. "Constructing Cartographic Narratives of the Geographies of Everyday Life Using 3D GIS." Paper to be presented in organized session “Emerging Themes in Critical GIS II - Qualitative Research and GIS.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, March 19-23.

• 2002. Panel on "Emerging Themes in Critical GIS III - Feminism and GIS Education." Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, March 19-23. (Panelist and co-organizer)

• 2002. Panel on "GIS-Transportation Education and Book Review." Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, March 19-23. (Panelist)

• 2002. "Measuring Individual Space-Time Accessibility: Comparison and Development." Paper to be presented in an organized session “Measuring and Analyzing Accessibility in Transportation Systems.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, March 19-23. (Hyun-Mi Kim and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2002. "A Location-Allocation Model Taking into Account of Space-Time Demand." Paper to be presented in an organized session "Understanding and Modeling Travel Behavior II." Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, March 19-23. (Yuko Takeda and Mei-Po Kwan)

• 2001 "Time, Space, Information Technologies and Urban Geographies." Paper presented at the conference Digital Communities 2001: Cities in the Information Society, Chicago, November 4-7.

• 2001. Panel on "Information Technologies and Society I: GIS and Critical Geographic Research." Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York City, NY, February 27 – March 3, 2001. (Chair and panelist)

• 2001. Paper session on "Household Structure, Spatial Mobility, and Urban Growth III: Coordinating Time and Space." Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York City, NY, February 27 – March 3. (Discussant)

• 2001. "Analysis of the Spatial Patterns of Gender Differences in the Journey-to-Work Using 3-D Geovisualization Methods." (Hyun Mi-Kim and Mei-Po Kwan). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York City, NY, February 27 – March 3, 2001.

• 2001. "The Effect of Real-time Information on Travel Behavior Using a GIS-based Interactive Simulator". (Irene Casas and Mei-Po Kwan). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York City, NY, February 27 – March 3, 2001.

• 2000.  "Other GIS in Other Worlds: Can GIS be a Feminist Method?"  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA, April 4-8. (Chair and Organizer of the session titled "GIS: Gendered Science? Feminist method?").

• 2000.  "A 3-D Data Model for Micro-scale Geographical Features in GIS. "  (Jiyeong Lee and Mei-Po Kwan). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA, April 4-8.

• 2000.  "The Influence of Time-of-Day Travel Time Variations on Individual Accessibility. " (Joseph Weber and Mei-Po Kwan). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA, April 4-8.

• 2000. "Using GIS to Model and Visualize Congestion Effects on Individual Accessibility." (Joseph Weber and Mei-Po Kwan). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the East Lakes and West Lakes Divisions of the Association of American Geographers, Oxford, Ohio, October 19-21.

• 1999.  "Representing and Measuring Hybrid-Accessibility in Space-Time Using GIS." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 23-27.

• 1999.  "Modeling Dynamic Behavior Using a GIS-Based Interactive Travel Simulator." (Irene Casas and Mei-Po Kwan) Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 23-27.

• 1999.  "Individual Accessibility Reconsidered: Concepts and Measurements." (Joe Weber and Mei-Po Kwan) Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 23-27.

• 1998.  "Exploring Relations Between GIS, Cognitive Maps, and Object-Oriented Data Models." Paper presented at the 8th World Congress on Transport Research (WCTR), Antwerp, Belgium, July 12-17.

• 1998.  "Modeling Accessibility to Urban Opportunities Using Geographical Information Systems." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston, MA, March 25-29.

• 1997.  "Developing an Object-Oriented Database for Testing Activity Scheduling and Trip Allocation Models." Paper presented at the INFORMS, San Diego, CA, May.

• 1997.  "A Study on Gender Differences in Trip Chaining Behavior Using Geographic Information Systems." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Fort Worth, Texas, April 1-5.

• 1997.  "Developing an Object-Oriented Testbed for Modeling Transportation Networks." Paper presented at the Western Regional Science Association Annual Meeting, Hawaii, February 23-27.

• 1996.  "Developing an Object-Oriented Data Model for Use in an Advanced Traveler Information System." Paper presented at the International Conference on The Theoretical Foundations of Travel Choice Modelling, Stockholm, Sweden, August 7-11.

• 1996.  "Visualization and Analysis of Individual’s Space-Time Path." Paper presented at the NCGIA Specialist Meeting on Disaggregate Transportation Modelling and GIS, Santa Barbara, California, June 8-10.

• 1996.  "Computational Process Models of Household Travel Behavior." Paper presented at the Mathematical Models Commission, the 28th International Geographical Congress Conference, The Hague, The Netherlands, August 5-10.

• 1996.  "Analysis of Gender Differences in Activity Patterns Using Geographic Information Systems." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Charlotte, North Carolina, April 9-13. 

• 1995.  "Object-Oriented GIS for Intelligent Transportation Systems." Paper presented at the GIS/LIS Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, November 14-16.

• 1995.  "Object-Oriented GIS for Conflict Resolution in Advanced Traveler Information Systems." Paper presented at the 42th Annual Northern American Meeting, Regional Science Association International, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 9-12. (Chair of session).

• 1995.  "Destination Choice Behavior in ATIS." Paper presented at the INFORMS New Orleans National Meeting, October 29-1.

• 1995.  "An Activity-Based Spatial Decision Support System for Advanced Traveler Information Systems." Paper presented at the International Conference on Activity-based Approaches: Activity Scheduling and the Analysis of Activity Patterns, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, May 25-28.

• 1995.  "GISICAS: A GIS-Interfaced CPM for Activity Scheduling in ATIS." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Chicago, April, 1995.

• 1995.  "GIS and Activity-Based Modeling in Intelligent Transportation Systems: A New Approach." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Operations Research Society of America, Los Angeles, April, 1995.

• 1995.  "Integrating GIS and Computational Process Model: Problems and Issues." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January, 1995.