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Spatial Cognition V

Reasoning, Action, Interaction

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Thomas Barkowsky

    1. Department of Computer Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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  2. Markus Knauff

    1. Department of Psychology, Justus-Liebig University Gießen, Giessen, Germany

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  3. Gérard Ligozat

    1. LIMSI-CNRS, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

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  4. Daniel R. Montello

    1. Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 4387)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (28 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Spatial Reasoning, Human-Robot Interaction, and Assistance

    1. Reachability and Dependency Calculi: Reasoning in Network Algebras

      • Alexander Scivos
      Pages 1-19

    2. The Qualitative Trajectory Calculus on Networks

      • Peter Bogaert, Nico Van de Weghe, Anthony G. Cohn, Frank Witlox, Philippe De Maeyer
      Pages 20-38

    3. Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning in the SparQ-Toolbox

      • Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Lutz Frommberger, Diedrich Wolter, Frank Dylla, Christian Freksa
      Pages 39-58

    4. Remembering Places in Space: A Human Analog Study of the Morris Water Maze

      • Sylvia Fitting, Gary L. Allen, Douglas H. Wedell
      Pages 59-75

    5. The Role of Users’ Concepts of the Robot in Human-Robot Spatial Instruction

      • Kerstin Fischer
      Pages 76-89

    6. Collaborative Assistance with Spatio-temporal Planning Problems

      • Inessa Seifert
      Pages 90-106

  3. Visuo-Spatial Reasoning and Spatial Dynamics

    1. Dialog-Based 3D-Image Recognition Using a Domain Ontology

      • Joana Hois, Michael Wünstel, John A. Bateman, Thomas Röfer
      Pages 107-126

    2. Protein Structure Prediction with Visuospatial Analogy

      • Jim Davies, Janice Glasgow, Tony Kuo
      Pages 127-139

    3. The Spatial Representation of Dynamic Scenes – An Integrative Approach

      • Markus Huff, Stephan Schwan, Bärbel Garsoffky
      Pages 140-155

    4. Modeling Geospatial Events and Impacts Through Qualitative Change

      • Inga Mau, Kathleen Stewart Hornsby, Ian D. Bishop
      Pages 156-174

  4. Spatial Concepts, Human Memory, and Mental Reasoning

    1. Preferred Mental Models: How and Why They Are So Important in Human Reasoning with Spatial Relations

      • Marco Ragni, Thomas Fangmeier, Lara Webber, Markus Knauff
      Pages 175-190

    2. The Spatial and the Visual in Mental Spatial Reasoning: An Ill-Posed Distinction

      • Holger Schultheis, Sven Bertel, Thomas Barkowsky, Inessa Seifert
      Pages 191-209

    3. Grounded Perceptual Schemas: Developmental Acquisition of Spatial Concepts

      • Amitabha Mukerjee, Mausoom Sarkar
      Pages 210-228

    4. Modeling Human Spatial Memory Within a Symbolic Architecture of Cognition

      • Carsten Winkelholz, Christopher M. Schlick
      Pages 229-248

    5. Updating in Models of Spatial Memory

      • Björn Rump, Timothy P. McNamara
      Pages 249-269

    6. Sensorimotor Interference When Reasoning About Described Environments

      • Marios N. Avraamides, Melina-Nicole Kyranidou
      Pages 270-287

    7. Mechanisms for Human Spatial Competence

      • Glenn Gunzelmann, Don R. Lyon
      Pages 288-307

  5. Navigation, Wayfinding, and Route Instructions

    1. Algorithms for Reliable Navigation and Wayfinding

      • Shazia Haque, Lars Kulik, Alexander Klippel
      Pages 308-326

    2. Interpreting Route Instructions as Qualitative Spatial Actions

      • Hui Shi, Christian Mandel, Robert J. Ross
      Pages 327-345
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About this book

This is the fifth volume in a series of book publications featuring basic interdisciplinary research in spatial cognition. The study of spatial cognition is the study of knowledge about spatial properties of objects and events in the world. Spatial properties include location, size, distance, direction, separation and connection, shape, pattern, and so on. Cognition is about the structures and processes of knowledge: its acquisition, storage, retrieval, manipulation, and use by humans, nonhuman animals, and machines. Broadly construed, cognitive activities include sensation and perception, thinking, attention, imagery, attitudes, memory, learning, language, and reasoning and problem-solving; the interaction of these activities with motoric (body movement) and affective (emotional) processing is recognized as critically important, as well. Cognition is typically considered to make up much of the activity of the mind. But though the mind is an expression of the structures and processes of the brain and nervous system, it is also an expression of an organism or agent with a physical body that typically exists in a physical and socio-cultural world. Researchers study spatial cognition for several reasons. Spatial cognition plays important roles in most of the domains of knowledge and behavior of sentient beings, including activities associated with biological survival, social interaction, cultural practice, and economic exchange. Attempts to describe, predict, and explain the basic components of spatial cognition and their interrelationships stimulate a host of interesting basic questions about how important parts of reality work.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Thomas Barkowsky

  • Department of Psychology, Justus-Liebig University Gießen, Giessen, Germany

    Markus Knauff

  • LIMSI-CNRS, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

    Gérard Ligozat

  • Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

    Daniel R. Montello

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