Peter Kiefer
Senior Researcher

Senior Researcher
My research focuses on the improvement of mobile GIS and location-based services. I'm interested in people's attention and intentions while using these systems, and in new assistive technologies that can help to improve the interaction with mobile geo-spatial services. In my current work, I'm using eye tracking technology to analyze people's perception and visual strategies while interacting with geographic information. One goal of this research is the development of methods for the semantic interpretation of a mobile person's gaze and trajectory, leading to mobile gaze-based assistive technologies.
Read more about this research on the website of the GeoGazeLab (see also News).
2016-2017, Innovedum
My role: Project Manager
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2014-2015, Innovedum
My role: Project Manager
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I am lecturing the course Mobile GIS and Location-Based Services (5 credits, 4 hours per week), offered each spring semester in the Geomatics Master program at ETH Zurich.
My further teaching activities at the Chair of Geoinformation Engineering include lectures and labs on Mobile GIS and Human Computer Interaction in GIS II (Bachelor) and GIS III (Master), and the supervision of theses.
I'm further involved in two study programs for continuing education: the Certificate of Advanced Studies on Spatial Information Systems, and the Master of Advanced Studies on Mobility of the Future
Previously, I have been a research and teaching assistant at the Chair of Computing in the Cultural Sciences, University of Bamberg, Germany. There I was involved in courses for the Bachelor and Master programs on Applied Computer Science, including "Introduction to Applied Computer Science", "Mobile Assistance Systems" and programming projects.
pekiefer@ethz.ch
You can find further contact information at my official ETH web page.