Manuel Baer
Landscape Perception | Gamification | Spatial Crowdsourcing
I am a software developer and GIS specialist working at EBP Schweiz in Zurich. My primary focus is on full-stack application development with a sprinkle of spatial components. In addition, I am working on scientific collaborations revolving around gamified spatial crowdsourcing and citizen engagement.
Before, I was an SNSF funded Post-Doc in the Game Technology Center (GTC) at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETHz) in Switzerland working on a gamified spatial crowdsourcing platform called HereSay. Previously, I was in the Gamification Group at Tampere University (FI) and the Centre for eResearch at the University of Auckland (NZ) exploring gamification in landscape perception and preference research.
My academic journey started as a PhD in the Geocomputation Group at the University of Zurich exploring novel participatory methods of data generation in landscape perception and preference research.
Besides being psyched about space I’m also mad about mapping, devious with drones and wild about windsurfing!