Publications by Jens Ingensand

Media Coverage of 3D Visual Tools Used in Urban Participatory Planning

The opportunities provided by adopting digitally-generated visual tools in urban participatory planning are compelling. These visual tools can promote interactions between authorities and citizens and among citizens. However, the urban participatory practi ...

IGI GLOBAL2023

Experiencing virtual geographic environment in urban 3D participatory e-planning: A user perspective

Jens Ingensand, Thibaud Nicolas Chassin

The adoption of technology in urban participatory planning with tools such as Virtual Geographic Environments (VGE) promises a broader engagement of urban dwellers, which should ultimately lead to the creation of better cities. However, the authorities and ...

ELSEVIER2022

E-guerrilla 3D participation: Approach, implementation, and usability study

Jens Ingensand, Thibaud Nicolas Chassin

Typical urban participatory approaches engage citizens through lengthy sessions far from the area under transformation by an urban project. Several issues result from these settings of involvement including the mobilization of similar individuals, overwhel ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

How do users interact with Virtual Geographic Environments? Users' behavior evaluation in urban participatory planning

Jens Ingensand, Thibaud Nicolas Chassin

For the past twenty years, the adoption of Virtual Geographic Environments is thriving. This democratization is due to numerous new opportunities offered by this medium. However, in participatory urban planning these interactive 3D geovisualizations are st ...

COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH2021

Impact of Digital and Non-Digital Urban Participatory Approaches on Public Access Conditions: An Evaluation Framework

Jens Ingensand, Thibaud Nicolas Chassin

The gradual institutionalization of public participation increasingly compels local authorities to partially share their power over the transformation of urban areas. The smooth running of a participatory session is based on selecting the appropriate type ...

MDPI2021

Relationship between land cover type and Body Mass Index in Geneva

Stéphane Joost, Alain Clémence, Jens Ingensand, Estelle Rochat, Solange Catherine Gaillard, Ivo Widmer, Idris Guessous

Past studies conducted in urban areas analyzed the impact of the presence of green spaces on public health, and highlighted in particular the psychological benefits of interacting with nature. To investigate a supposed relationship between overweight and d ...

IEEE2015

Hydroweb: an Open Source educational WebGIS platform for the understanding of spatio-temporal variations of meteorological parameters at the watershed scale

Vincent Luyet, Michaël Kalbermatten, Stéphane Joost, Jens Ingensand

GIS is an interdisciplinary technology able to support high-level thinking and spatial reasoning. It allows students to visualize complex real world problems, and supports multiple modes of learning. But GIS remain unused at the primary school level. Indee ...

Lulu.com2012

Remote-evaluation of user interaction with WebGIS

François Golay, Jens Ingensand

In this paper we propose a framework that characterizes user interaction with webGIS. Furthermore we present a technique to remotely test and evaluate such systems. Our framework does not only include parameters describing the usability of a system, but re ...

Springer-Verlag2011

User interaction with online geospatial systems

Jens Ingensand

User interaction with online geospatial systems is an inter-disciplinary research field that combines the two disciplines Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and geographic information sciences. In recent years online geospatial systems have been created for ...

EPFL2010

User Performance in Interaction with Web-GIS: A Semi-Automated Methodology Using Log-Files and Streaming-Tools

François Golay, Jens Ingensand

This paper describes a framework of methods for the measurement and evaluation of users' performance in interaction with a web-GIS. The framework involves testing of a system with real-world users, streaming of the user's screen during the evaluation and t ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2009

Integrated, web-based information system to support collaborative resource management

François Golay, Jens Ingensand

In order to support a more effective and environmentally aware resource management, information systems may be designed to integrate relevant information and indicators about the resource and its environment and to make them available to all stakeholders a ...

2008

Evaluating collaborative Web-GIS

François Golay, Jens Ingensand

2007

Le réseau interactif en viticulture (RIV), un projet novateur au service de tous

Régis Caloz, Jens Ingensand

2007

Creating an Interactive Network for Wine-cultivation

Régis Caloz, Jens Ingensand

This paper presents an ongoing project in the Swiss Canton de Vaud - the development of an interactive network for wine-cultivation. The goal of the project is to develop an interactive application where winegrowers and other actors involved in wine-cultiv ...

2005