Prof. Dr. Sebastian Meier

Professor for Design of Knowledge Transfer

Committees & Offices

Senate

Unit

Department of Design

University Senate

Interaction Design Lab (IDL)

sebastian.meier@fh-potsdam.de

Phone

+49 331 580-4433

Location

House D

Room

D.2.14

Office hours

by appointment / registration by e-mail

CV

since October 2021
Professor for the design of knowledge transfer, Design department at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Interface and Product Design programme
2019 - 2021
Visiting Professor for Geovisualisation, HafenCity University Hamburg
2019 - 2020
Scientific Director, CityLab Berlin
2017 - 2020
Lead Data Scientist, Technology Foundation Berlin
2016 - 2017
HCI & Data Visualisation, Interaction Design Lab, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
2014 - 2017
PhD Geoinformatics, University of Potsdam
2012 - 2014
HCI & Data Visualisation, Interaction Design Lab, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
2012 - 2019
Lecturer for Interface Design, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
2011 - 2021
Project and design lead, IxDS, Berlin
2011
Master Interface Design, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
2009 - 2011
Lecturer for generative design, University of Applied Sciences Trier
2009
Lecturer for Interactive Systems, University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf
2009
Diploma in communication design, University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf
since 2007
Self-employed VISLAB.io (e.g. Tonic Vision Ltd. (London), IxDS (Berlin), Fraunhofer Fokus, FH Düsseldorf, IASS Potsdam, Technologiestiftung Berlin, Leibnitz Institute)

Publications at FHP from 2018 onwards (according to core data set for research)

2025

Damla Çay, Till Nagel, Sebastian Meier. Cities, Cards, and Conversations: The UDV Card Deck in Action. 2025.
Qasem Safariallahkheili, Jochen Schiewe, Sebastian Meier. Interactive web-based Geospatial eXplainable Artificial Intelligence for AI model output exploration. AGILE2025.
Chelsea Nestel, Katarzyna Słomska-Przech, Florian Ledermann, Edyta P. Bogucka, Fanni Vörös, Sebastian Meier, Robert E. Roth. Opportunities and Challenges for the Next Generation of Cartographers: An Inclusive Workshop Study with Early-Career Cartography Professionals. The cartographic journal218-2262025.
Qasem Safariallahkheili, Jochen Schiewe, Sebastian Meier. Post-Hoc Explanation of AI Predictions in Wildfire Risk Mapping Through an Interactive Web-Based GeoXAI System. KN - Journal of cartography and geographic information2025.
Damla Çay, Till Nagel, Sebastian Meier. The UDV Card Deck: A Collaborative Design Framework to Facilitate Urban Visualization Conversations. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications30-442025.

2024

Sebastian Meier. Offene Daten und Interoperabilität: Ein Werkstattbericht zum Status Quo und aktuellen Entwicklungen. Vermessung Brandenburg22-292024.

2023

Sebastian Meier, Edyta P. Bogucka, Florian Ledermann, Robert E. Roth, Katarzyna Słomska-Przech, Fanni Vörös. Opportunities and Challenges for the Next Generation of Cartographers. Abstracts of the ICA1-32023.
Sebastian Meier, Katrin Glinka. To Classify is to Interpret: Building Taxonomies from Heterogeneous Data through Human-AI Collaboration. Mensch und Computer 2023 : Building Bridges395-4012023.

2022

Thomas Bruhn, Sebastian Meier, Mark G. Lawrence. Interactive network visualization on the integration of mindsets and sustainability: creating conditions for emergence through a relational narrative. Innovation : The European Journal of Social Science Research71-842022.
Sebastian Meier. Semi-automatic spatial classification of heterogeneous spatial open government data: use case of Germany. Abstracts of the ICA1-22022.

2017

Sebastian Meier. Visualizations in Online News - and Their Effect on Perceived Credibility. KN - Journal of cartography and geographic information74-832017.

Additional publications

2021

Goodwin S, Meier S, Bartram L, Godwin A, Nagel T, Dörk M. Unravelling the Human Perspective and Considerations for Urban Data Visualization. In2021 IEEE 14th Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis) 2021 Apr 19 (pp. 126-130). IEEE.
Sebastian Meier, Inga Schlegel, Jochen Schiewe (2021) Potentials of Open Weather Data in the Smart City Context: An Exploration of Open Data from the German Weather Service (DWD) and Case Studies of Data-Driven Smart City Applications Perspectives in Metropolitan Research, 6 (p 128-143). JOVIS; Verlag.
Sebastian Meier, Fabian Dinklage, Katrin Glinka (2021) Personalisation of Data-Driven Storytelling Abstracts of the International Cartographic Conference 2021.

2019

Meier, S., Tost, J. (2019) On the relevance of cartography — An interaction design perspective, Proceedings of the ICC 2019.

2018

Meier, S., Glinka, K. (2018) Data-driven personal cartographic perspectives. Kartographische Nachrichten, (13/8).
Meier, S., Seibel, B. (2018) Zivilgesellschaftlichen Mehrwert schaffen - Daten für Bürger*innen aufbereiten. Magazine by the Office for statistics Berlin-Brandenburg.

2017

Meier, S. (2017) Personal Big Data. Potsdam University.
Meier, S., Glinka, K. (2017) The Individual in the Data — the Aspect of Personal Relevance. i-com 2017; 16(3): pp. 247-265.
Meier, S., Glinka, K. (2017) Psychogeography in the Age of the Quantified Self-Mental Map Modelling with Georeferenced Personal Activity Data. LNG&C - Advances in Cartography and GIScience.
Meier, S. (2017) Visualizations in Online News — and Their Effect on Perceived Credibility. Kartographische Nachrichten, Sonderheft 02/2017.

2016

Meier, S. (2016) Enhancing Location Recommendation Through Proximity Indicators, Areal Descriptors, and Similarity Clusters. LNG&C - Progress in Location-Based Services 2016, Springer.
Meier, S., Nagel, T., Heidmann, F. (2016) Open Geo Tools — A State of the Art Report. The democratization of geo-tools and data continues. Proceedings of the 64th German Cartography conference.
Meier, S. (2016) The Marker Cluster: A Critical Analysis and a New Approach to a Common Web-based Cartographic Interface Pattern. International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS), Volume 7, Issue 1, January - March 2016.
Beecham, R., Rooney, C., Meier, S., Dykes, J., Slingsby, A., Turkay, C., Wood, J. and Wong, B. (2016) Faceted Views of Varying Emphasis (FaVVEs): a framework for visualising multi-perspective small multiples. Computer Graphics Forum: the international journal of the Eurographics Association, 35(3) pp.241-249.

2015

Thom, A.; Meier, S.; Heidmann, F. (2015) Anforderungsanalyse bei IT-Experten mittels Experience-Sample-Methode. In: Endmann, A., Fischer, H. & Krökel, M. (Hrsg.), Mensch und Computer 2015 – Usability Professionals. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. (S. 133-143).
Sebastian Meier (2015) Visualizing Large Spatial Time Series Data on Mobile Devices: Combining the HeatTile System with a Progressive Loading Approach. Proceedings of the ICC 2015, Cartography - Maps Connecting the World (Springer).
Andreas Thom, Sebastian Meier, Frank Heidmann (2015) Anforderungsanalyse bei IT-Experten mittels Experience-Sample-Methode. In: Endmann, A., Fischer, H. & Krökel, M. (Hrsg.), Mensch und Computer 2015 – Usability Professionals. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. (S. 133-143).
Katrin Glinka, Sebastian Meier and Marian Dörk (2015) Visualising the »Un seen«: Towards Critical Approaches and Strategies of Inclusion in Digital Cultural Heritage Interfaces (PDF).
Kultur und Informatik 2015 (Culture and Computer Science), vwh, pages 105-117, May 2015.

2014

Sebastian Meier (2014) The Micro Smart Grid Tabletop — A real world case study for tangible multitouch technologies for communicating complex concepts. Published in the Workshop Proceedings of the workshop Tactile/Haptic User Interfaces for Tabletops and Tablets (TacTT) 2014 during the ITS conference 2014 in Dresden.
Sebastian Meier, Frank Heidmann, Andreas Thom (2014) A comparison of location search UI patterns on mobile devices. In Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Mobile HCI, 2014.
Andreas Thom, Frank Heidmann, Sebastian Meier (2014) Interkulturelle Nutzeranforderungen erheben. Für Mensch und Maschine, UP14.
Sebastian Meier, Frank Heidmann (2014) Too Many Markers, Revisited: An Empirical Analysis of Web-Based Methods for Overcoming the Problem of Too Many Markers in Zoomable Mapping Applications. In Proceedings of Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA), 2014.
Sebastian Meier, Frank Heidmann, Andreas Thom (2014) Heattile, a New Method for Heatmap Implementations for Mobile Web-based Cartographic Applications. In Thematic Cartography for the Society (Springer), 2014.

2012

Sebastian Meier, Johannes Landstorfer, Julia Werner, Reto Wettach, Andre Knörig, Jonathan Cohen, Andreas Sommerwerk (2012) A Real-world Mobile Prototyping Framework for Location-and Context-based Services. Published at the Wireless Communication and Information (WCI) – Berlin, 2012.

Selected projects

Expertise-Oriented Methods for the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Creative Industries

Research and development of methods for the use of GenAI in the context of the value chains of the creative industries, which lead to synergetic effects of artistic and creative competences in cooperation with AI. To disseminate the findings, recommendations for action and OERs for the development and integration of AI tools will also be published.

App Prototyping as an Inclusive Teaching-Learning Arrangement for the Integrative Development of Digital Skills at Upper Secondary Level

The planned project will develop and empirically test a new approach to teaching digital skills through app prototyping.

InNoWest - MOSIDI Implementation Project: Modular Open source Infrastructure for Data Interaction

Tool for easy data access, evaluation and visualisation to support planning and decision-making processes in sustainable municipal development