Education
Ph.D. 1999, Department of Geography, Michigan State University
M.A. 1996, Department of Geography, Georgia State University
B.A. 1991, Geography, Georgia State University
Fall 2004 to Present. Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Oregon.
Fall 1999 to Spring 2004. Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Central Michigan University.
Publications (peer refereed papers)
Lobben, Amy. 2005. “Controlling the Visualization: Evaluating Spatial Data Mining Patterns
While Exploring a Familiar Geographic Environment.” Ninth International Conference
on Information Visualization, IV 2005. London, UK. IEEE Computer Society.
Patton, David K., Amy Lobben, and Bruce M.C. Pape. 2005. “Mapping Cities and Towns in the
Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: a Look at Sanborn, Plat, and Panoramic
Mapping Activities in Michigan.” The Michigan Historical Review. Spring.
Lobben, Amy. 2004. “Tasks, Strategies and Cognitive Processes Associated with Navigational
Map Reading: A Review Perspective” The Professional Geographer. May. Volume 56,
Number 2. Pages 270-281.
Lobben, Amy and David Patton. “Design Guidelines for Digital Atlases.” Cartographic
Perspectives. Winter 2003.
Lobben, Amy. 2003. “Classification and Application of Cartographic Animation.” The
Professional Geographer. August. Volume 55, Number 3. Pages318-328.
Lobben, Amy. 2001. “Teaching With Geographic Information Technology.” Reprint from
Information Technology and Teacher Education Annual 2001 to CSS Journal:
Computers in the Social Studies, Volume 9, Number 4, October/December.
Lobben, Amy. 2001. “Teaching With Geographic Information Technology.” Information
Technology and Teacher Education Annual.
Lobben, Amy. 2001. “Design and Evaluation of a Virtual Cartography Lab.” In Proceedings of
ED-MEDIA 2001 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and
Telecommunications (Tampere, Finland). Association for the Advancement of
Computing in Education. Charlottesville, Virginia. June.
Lobben, Amy. 2000. “Custom-Authored Hypermedia Exercises for Use in College Classrooms.”
In Proceedings of Ed-Media 2000 World Conference on Educational Multimedia,
Hypermedia & Telecommunications (Montreal).Association for the Advancement of
Computing in Education. Charlottesville, Virginia. June.
Olson, Judy; Leesha Broomes; Scott Drzyzga; Lisa Dygert; Amy Lobben; Alison Philpotts; Jen
Ware. 1998. “Teaching Focus Groups.” Cartographic Perspectives. Fall.
Publications (peer refereed conference proceedings—extended abstracts reviewed)
Lobben, Amy K. 2005. “Identifying the Needs of Tactile Map Makers” Proceedings of the 22nd
International Cartographic Conference (A Coruna, Spain).
Lobben, Amy K., Judy M. Olson, Jie Huang. 2005. “Using fMRI in Cartographic Research”
Proceedings of the 22nd International Cartographic Conference (A Coruna, Spain).
Olson, Judy M. and Amy Lobben. 2003. “Strategy Issues in Map Use for Way-Finding in Local
Environments.” Cartographic Renaissance: Proceedings of the 21st International
Cartographic Conference (Durban, South Africa). August.
Lobben, Amy. 2001. “Employing Interactive Multimedia as a Cartographic Research Tool.”
Mapping the 21st Century: Proceedings of the 20th International Cartographic
Conference (Beijing). August.
Editor
Ebad Banissi, Katy Börner, Chaomei Chen, Gordon Clapworthy, Carsten Maple, Amy Lobben,
Christopher J. Moore, Jonathan C. Roberts, Anna Ursyn, Jian Zhang (Eds.): Seventh
International Conference on Information Visualization, IV 2003. London, UK. IEEE
Computer Society
Lobben, Amy K. 2005. “Identifying the Needs of Tactile Map Makers” Presented at the 22nd
International Cartographic Conference. A Coruna, Spain. July 2005.
Lobben, Amy. “Controlling the Visualization: Evaluating Spatial Data Mining Patterns While
Exploring a Familiar Geographic Environment.” Presented at the Ninth International
Conference on Information Visualization, IV 2005. London, UK. July 2005.
Lobben, Amy K., Judy M. Olson, Jie Huang. “Using fMRI in Cartographic Research” Presented
at the 22nd International Cartographic Conference. A Coruna, Spain. July 2005.
Lawrence, Megan (student), Amy Lobben, Judy M. Olson,. “Images of the Geographical Brain:
The Use of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Studying Spatial Tasks.”
Presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers. April
2005. Denver, Colorado.
Olson, Judy M. and Amy Lobben. “An Experimental Study Comparing Two Map Tasks Using
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery.” Presented at the annual meeting of the
Association of American Geographers. April 2005. Denver, Colorado.
Lobben, Amy. “Classifying Cartographic Animation.” Presented at the Centennial meeting of
the Association of American Geographers. March 2004. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Olson, Judy M. and Amy Lobben. “Strategy Issues in Map Use for Way-Finding in Local
Environments.” Presented at the 21st International Cartographic Conference (Durban,
South Africa). August 2003.
Lobben, Amy and Judy M. Olson. “Sluething in Navigational Map Reading.” Presented at the
annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers. March 2003. New
Orleans, Louisiana.
Lobben, Amy. “Measuring the Relative Influence of Cognitive Process on Navigational Map
Reading.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers.
March 2002. Los Angeles, California.
Lobben, Amy. “Employing Interactive Multimedia as a Cartographic Research Tool.” Presented
at ICC 2001, the 20th International Cartographic Conference. August 2001. Beijing,
China.
Lobben, Amy. “Design and Evaluation of a Virtual Cartography Lab.” Presented at Ed-Media
2001: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia, and
Telecommunications. June 2001. Tampere, Finland.
Lobben, Amy. “Teaching with Geographic Information Technology.” Presented at the annual
world conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education.
March 2001. Orlando, Florida.
Lobben, Amy. “Identifying the Cognitive Tasks of Map Reading and Navigation.” Presented at
the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers. February/March 2001.
New York.
Olson, Judy and Amy Lobben. “Signs and Maps (no, not signs on maps)”. Presented at the
annual meeting of the North American Cartographic Information Society. October 2000.
Knoxville, Tennessee.
Lobben, Amy. “Custom-Authored Hypermedia Exercises for Use in College Classrooms.”
Presented at the annual World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia &
Telecommunications. June 2000. Montreal Canada.
Lobben, Amy. “Basic Concepts of Cartography and GIS.” Presented at the annual IMAGIN
conference. May 2000. Lansing, Michigan. (invited paper)
Lobben, Amy. “Integrating Multimedia Lessons into Large College Classrooms.” Presented at
the annual meeting of the North American Cartographic Information Society. October
1998. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Duh, Jiunn-Der, Amy Lobben, Alison E. Philpotts. “Focus Group Evaluation of a Multimedia
Physical Geography Lesson.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Association of
American Geographers. March 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.
Lobben, Amy. “An Analysis of Preschool Children’s Mapping Abilities in a Familiar
Environment.” Presented at the annual meeting of the North American Cartographic
Information Society. October 1997. Lexington, Kentucky.
Lobben, Amy (PI) and Stephen Fickas (Co-PI). “Tactile Mapping Software for Blind and
Visually Impaired Navigation and Science Education.” National Science Foundation –
HRD. $299,991. Grant Period 2005-2008.
Lobben, Amy (Co-Director) and Cathleen Leue (Co-Director). “Reaching Across Disciplines:
Providing a Hybrid Instructional Model and Accompanying GIS Research and
Instructional Tools for Faculty and Students Throughout Campus.” Submitted April 2005
to the University of Oregon Educational Technology Committee. $57,100. Grant Period
2005-2007.
Lobben, Amy and Judy Olson. Travel for Participants in the 21st and 22nd International
Cartographic Conferences Durban, South Africa, August 2003 and A Coruna, Spain, July
2005. National Science Foundation – BCS. $44,700. Grant Period 2003-2006.
Lobben, Amy. “Using Functional MRI to Detect Neurological Influences on Map Reading and
Navigation.” President’s Research Investment Fund, December 2001. $20,727.
Lobben, Amy and Judy Olson. Grant of service and personnel for 8 MRI scans for the
project “Using Functional MRI to Detect Neurological Influences on Map
Reading and Navigation.” Department of Radiology, Michigan State
University. May 2003.
Lobben, Amy. Premiere Display Travel Grant for the annual meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, March 2002. Los Angeles. Faculty Research and Creative
Endeavors Committee. April 2002. $800
Lobben, Amy and Judy Olson. Grant of service and personnel for 8 MRI scans for the project
“Using Functional MRI to Detect Neurological Influences on Map Reading and
Navigation.” Department of Radiology, Michigan State University. July 2001.
Lobben, Amy. Premiere Display Travel Grant for the annual meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, February/March 2001. New York. Faculty Research and
Creative Endeavors Committee. April 2001. $150
Lobben, Amy. Premiere Display Travel Grant for ICC 2001: 20th annual meeting of the
International Cartographic Association, August 2001. Beijing. Faculty Research and
Creative Endeavors Committee. April 2001. $850
Lobben, Amy. Premiere Display Travel Grant for Ed-Media 2001: World Conference on
Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Telecommunications, June 2001, Tampere
Finland. Faculty Teaching and Program Development Committee. May 2001. $850
Lobben, Amy. “Employing Interactive Multimedia as a Cartographic Research tool.” US
National Committee of the International Cartographic Association. January 2001. $1500
Lobben, Amy. Premiere Display Travel Grant for Ed-Media 2000: World Conference
on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Telecommunications, June 2000,
Montreal. Faculty Teaching and Program Development Committee. September 2000.
$800
Lobben, Amy. “Evaluating the Effectiveness of Web-Based Computer Lab Exercises.”
Faculty Teaching and Program Development Committee. April 2000. $1196.50.
Department of Geography, Central Michigan University
Department of Geography, Michigan State University
Professional Service
Discipline
1. Elected member of the United States National Committee for the International Cartographic Association, 2001to present.
2. Founded and established the International Symposium on Geographic/Spatial Data Visualization as part of the International Conference
on Information Visualization, 2002.
3. Organizing and Liaison Committee for the International Conference on Information Visualization, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005.
4. Programme Committee for the International Conference on Information Visualization, 2004, 2005.
5. Co-Organizer (with Rob Edsall, Arizona State University) Visualization sessions AAG 2004, 2005, 2006
6. Organizer of the Cognitive Maps and Mapping sessions AAG 2003
7. Served as Judge for the 2001, 2002, 2003 Michigan National Geography Bee
8. Served as Judge for the 2002 National Geographic Society’s cartography award
9. Reviewed manuscripts for Professional Geographer, Cartographic Perspectives, Progress in Human Geography
10. Reviewed proposals for National Science Foundation (Geography and Regional Science)
Department
1. Graduate Admissions Committee 2004 to present
2. Internship Committee 2004 to present
3. Charitable Drive Coordinator 2004 to present
4. Faculty Search Committee 2005
University
1. SSIL Committee 2004 to present
2. GIS Committee 2004 to present