Talk: Presentation at the GISRUK 2026 Conference

Last week, I had the pleasure of presenting our recent research at the 34th Annual GIS Research UK Conference (GISRUK 2026) at the University of Birmingham.

Our work, ‘Assessing Park Satisfaction from Google Maps Reviews: Novel Evidence from Multimodal Text–Image Analysis,’ is part of the National Parks Board-funded project ‘Spatio-temporal Trends in Usage & Perception of Parks and Green Spaces.’ This study, conducted in collaboration with Wenpei Li, Angelia SIA, and Filip Biljecki, explores how textual and visual information from user-generated reviews can be jointly leveraged to evaluate park satisfaction in an interpretable way.

This work serves as a first step in demonstrating the value of structured textual features (e.g., emotions and topics) and visual attributes (e.g., scene types and temporal cues) in park research. Building on this, our team will further investigate more fine-grained patterns from Google Maps reviews and integrate multiple data sources such as local surveys and street view imagery. More exciting work is on the way, please stay tuned!

If you’re interested, please see this paper at Zenodo or my ResearchGate.