William Cartwright Am

Biography

Professor Cartwright is well known for his experimental research work on the application of Integrated Interactive Media to cartography commencing over 25 years ago and as such he is considered to be one of the early Australian researchers in this field. Research has been applied to: computer graphics, videotapes; videodiscs Wireless Handheld Information Appliances (WHIA integrated media; the World Wide Web and cartographic applications; games environments; Web GIS virtual environments; usability studies; and applications of the narrative for visualising geography. He has also been involved with international researchers in setting a research agenda for interface design related to geographical information provision using integrated media. His reputation is evidenced by invitations to author book chapters on this subject edited by internationally regarded researchers. These include: the Manual of GIS, a key book developing concepts for depicting geography differently using interactive media and published by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, a key scientific organization in the Geospatial science community; Geographic Visualization (Wiley), a collection of seminal works on geographical visualization that was developed to set a research agenda for the application of computer visualization tools for representing geography; Landscape Analysis and Visualisation, (Springer-Verlag) (co-edited by Cartwright) which developed concepts for using integrated media for visualizing Australian landscapes; Mapping in a Digital Age (Blackwell), and international collaborative publication that brought-together experts in Geospatial sciences to state current thinking in the geospatial sciences related to the use of digital mapping technologies; Companion Encyclopaedia of Geography: From Local to Global (Routledge), a book which specifies the key research areas in the Geospatial sciences for the forthcoming decade; and Cybercartography (Elsevier Science), which explored the theoretical underpinnings for exploiting the Web for cartographic publishing and information dissemenation. He was also co-editor in 1999 of a seminal work on multimedia cartography: Multimedia Cartography (Springer-Verlag), with Peterson and Gartner. This book formalised research and development in multimedia cartography. Multimedia Cartography Edition 2 of the book was published in 2007.

Research Interest

Application of integrated interactive media to representing geography