Geoinformation

Spatial, temporal, and open data plays a central role in our lab. Our students come up with new ways to interact with such data, and build useful applications for a wide range of people.

Research

We explore how physical and geographical items can be transformed into three-dimensional, interactive, and holographic objects, letting us build immersive and novel systems.

Cutting-edge Mobile Tech

As the borders between reality and virtuality begin to blur on Microsoft HoloLens©, interaction with geographic features becomes natural, opening new forms of interaction.


19th December 2023

Final Presentation on the 19th of December 2023, 14.30 - 17.00

Location: HIT G35.1

Three student groups have presented their results at the 2023 final presentation. The overarching topic was "Location-Based Game With a Physical Map". Please find project descriptions and videos in the past projects.



20th December 2022

Final Presentation on the 20th of December 2022, 14.30 - 17.00

Location: HIT E 51

On the 20th of December 2022, the final presentation of GIS and Geomatics Lab Autumn Semester 2022 successfully took place. You can access the project descriptions and videos in the past projects.



21st December 2021

Final Presentation on the 21st of December 2021, 13.45 - 16.30

Location: HIT E 51

The final presentation of GIS and Geomatics Lab Autumn Semester 2021 successfully took place on the 21st of December 2021. You can find some impressions from the pictures below. The project descriptions and videos can be found in the past projects.



1st November 2021

Winners of the Esri Switzerland Young Scholar Award 2021

We are very happy to announce that Yuchang Jiang, Yihang She, Han Sun and Tianyu Wu won this year's Esri Switzerland Young Scholar Award with their project work "HoloInspect" which they developed within the GIS Lab! Congratulations!

You can find more details on the Past Project page and the Storymap.




15th December 2020

Final Presentation on the 15th of December 2020, 13.45 - 17.00

Location: HIT E 51

The final presentation of GIS and Geomatics Lab Autumn Semester 2020 successfully took place on the 15th of December 2020. You can find some impressions from the pictures below. The project descriptions and videos can be found in the past projects.



20th December 2019

Final Presentations on the 20th of December 2019, 15.00 - 17.00

Location: Werner Siemens-Auditorium (HIT E 51) , Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, 8093 Zürich


We will have presentations by Escape HIT (play an escape room on the Hololens!), Lelantos Hide and Seek (Mister X in the city of Zurich!), Holo-Physics (physics games to help you understand electric charges!), and Food-Lens (see your food before you choose from the menu!).



Schedule

15.00 Introduction to the event, welcoming of the industry partners
15.05 Presentation by Group 1 (~12 min + 3 min discussions)
15.20 Presentation by Group 2 (~12 min + 3 min discussions)
15.35 Presentation by Group 3 (~12 min + 3 min discussions)
15.50 Presentation by Group 4 (~12 min + 3 min discussions)
16.05 Apéro, trying out applications, and individual discussions
17.00 End of final presentations


We are happy that Esri R&D and the City of Zurich supported us throughout this semester!

25th September 2019

Public Presentation on the 20th of December 2019, 15.00 - 17.00 (incl. Apéro riche)

Location: HIT E 51

We would like to invite all participants of the GIS Lab, students of ETH and UZH, industry partners, and other interested people to the final presentations of the GIS and Geomatics Lab Autumn Semester 2019. The presentations will take place in the Siemens Auditorium on Hönggerberg (HIT E 51) and are a great way to get insights on the teaching activities of the GIS group at ETH Zürich.

Like last year, the final presentations will be held as part of a bigger GIS@ETH afternoon, during which students of other GIS courses will present their semester works. You can find some impressions from last year below.


To facilitate the organization, please register for the event until the 1st of December 2019 (not necessary for members of the GIS Lab).

Register here

24th September 2019

Kick-off on the 24th of September 2019, 13.45 - 16.30

Location: HIL H 40.4

We are happy to announce that Esri R&D, the city of Zurich, and Daniel Laumer (winner of last year's Esri Switzerland Young Scholar Award) will present their experiences with VR, MR and AR! Representatives from the respective companies will attend the kick-off and present potential applications from their domain as a starting point for the GIS and Geoinformatics Lab.



Schedule

13.45 Introduction of the industry partners, the lab structure and the lab assistants
14.00 Presentation by Daniel Laumer (~20 min + 10 min discussions)
14.30 Presentation by Daniel Inversini from Esri R&D (~30 min + 15 min discussions)
15.15 Short break
15.45 Presentation by Sebastian Wolf and Tobias Frey from Stadt Zürich (~30 min + 15 min discussions)
16.30 End

You can find some impressions of the event below.



5th August 2019

The GIS and Geoinformatics Lab will Return with Hololens in HS 2019


Already for the third time in a row, the GIS Lab will give students the opportunity to work with cutting-edge mixed reality in Fall 2019. Using the Hololens from Microsoft, the aim of the course is to develop a geo-related application that makes use of the unique capabilities of the Hololens and incorporates both real-world objects as well as virtual ones.

Take a look at the projects from previous years on this website, and sign up via mystudies or the Vorlesungsverzeichnis! As usual, we will invite selected partners for an introductory lecture at the beginning of the semester, and we'll have a larger event towards the end where researchers, practicioners, families and friends can try out the applications.


24th May 2019

Winners of the Esri Switzerland Young Scholar Award & OpenData Student Award 2019


We are very happy to announce that Hasret Gümgümcü and Daniel Laumer won this year's Esri Switzerland Young Scholar Award as well as the OpenData Student Award with their application UrbanX developed during the GIS Lab! You can find more details on the Esri blog. They have also received a lot of attention from the OpenData community on Twitter. Congratulations!

Image from https://gis-iq.esri.de/esri-switzerland-young-scholar-award-2019-das-sind-die-gewinner.

15th February 2019

The GIS Lab 2018 has come to a successful end!


The students of the GIS Lab 2018 created three awesome Hololens applications. You can watch their videos by clicking on the images:

Urban planning is a highly creative and collaborative discipline. UrbanX is a mixed reality application allowing planners to modify a city model by adding and removing buildings. Statistics show relevant information about the city model and updates the changes in real time.

UrbanX

SustAR is an immersive augmented reality experience aimed at educating children and adults about the effects of climate change by directly appealing to their senses in the ways typical educational methods cannot. The game floods the user's room and gives them the opportunity to answer questions about their lifestyle which affect the level of the surrounding water. During the process users are given facts about the questions they answer and how they pertain to climate change as well as other facts to be found in the world around them.

SustAR

WayR is an experimental public transit app for Hololens. The application shows you the departing trains at any station in Switzerland. We know that waiting is a pain, so besides timetable information the application also shows you videos or tweets. The timetable appears at the recognized markers, but you can also take the timetable with you to keep track of time. The app will warn you when your selected train leaves from the station.

WayR



More details about UrbanX can be found here.
We thank our supporters Esri R&D, Losinger Marazzi, and Wälli AG for their work throughout this semester!

The next GIS Lab will take place in fall semester 2019. Stay tuned!

7th February 2019

Presentation of UrbanX at the 6th MeetUp "AR/VR/MR: BIM - Digital Construction"


Daniel Laumer had the chance to present his and Hasret Gümgümcü's excellent mixed reality application UrbanX at the "AR/VR/MR: BIM - Digital Construction" MeetUp together with Christian Sailer.

Take a look at their presentation here:

21st December 2018

Final Presentations on the 21th of December 2018, 13.00 - 15.00

Location: HIT E 51, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, 8093 Zürich


The following projects will be presented at the event:

Urban planning is a highly creative and collaborative discipline. UrbanX is a mixed reality application allowing planners to modify a city model by adding and removing buildings. Statistics show relevant information about the city model and updates the changes in real time.

UrbanX

SustAR is an immersive augmented reality experience aimed at educating children and adults about the effects of climate change by directly appealing to their senses in the ways typical educational methods cannot. The game floods the user's room and gives them the opportunity to answer questions about their lifestyle which affect the level of the surrounding water. During the process users are given facts about the questions they answer and how they pertain to climate change as well as other facts to be found in the world around them.

SustAR

WayR is an experimental public transit app for Hololens. The application shows you the departing trains at any station in Switzerland. We know that waiting is a pain, so besides timetable information the application also shows you videos or tweets. The timetable appears at the recognized markers, but you can also take the timetable with you to keep track of time. The app will warn you when your selected train leaves from the station.

WayR



Schedule

13.00 Introduction to the event, welcoming of the industry partners
13.05 Presentation by Group 1 (~15 min + 5 min discussions)
13.25 Presentation by Group 2 (~15 min + 5 min discussions)
13.45 Presentation by Group 3 (~15 min + 5 min discussions)
14.05 Apéro and individual discussions
15.00 End of final presentations and start of GIS I course


We are happy that Esri R&D, Losinger Marazzi, and Wälli AG supported us throughout this semester!

28th September 2018

Kick-off on the 28th of September 2018, 13.00 - 16.30

Location: HIT E 41.1

We are happy to announce collaborations with Esri R&D, Losinger Marazzi, and Wälli AG! Representatives from the respective companies will attend the kick-off and present potential applications from their domain as a starting point for the GIS and Geoinformatics Lab.



Schedule

13.00 Introduction of the industry partners, the lab structure and the lab assistants
13.10 Presentation by Esri R&D (~30 min + 15 min discussions)
13.55 Short break
14.00 Presentation by Losinger Marazzi (~30 min + 15 min discussions)
14.45 Short break
14.50 Presentation by Wälli AG (~30 min + 15 min discussions)
15.35 Apéro and individual discussions
16.30 End

About the GIS Lab

Independent study project with (mobile) geoinformation technologies.

Contact Information

  • ETH Zurich
    Inst. f. Kartografie u. Geoinform.
  • Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5
    8093 Zürich
    Switzerland
  • +41 44 633 71 59

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